now if you look around at the world today you say oh my god this looks like hell on earth
we didn't come from hell on earth we came from the proverbial garden of eden a garden is the highest
level of cooperation of organisms and then look what we've done here look at this world that we
end up with today look around we are in hell right now this is actually prognosticated in
the bible's book of revelations where they talked about the four horsemen of the apocalypse those
four horsemen are represented by disease famine war and death is this an inevitable conclusion to
our world or is there an alternative opportunity conventionally the concept of apocalypse is a very
scary thing a breakdown of the world as we know it the original meaning of apocalypse in greek means
an unveiling an uncovering of knowledge that we haven't seen before and this is what we're facing
right now because the new knowledge that we're being exposed to will take us from a destruction
into the creation of a better more functional world let's go back and understand the basic
nature of a civilization a civilization is based on a set of truths that are understood
by the people of that civilization to be a valid understanding of the world and when a truth of
the civilization change so does a civilization a civilization is characterized by its culture its
behavior but where do these behavioral norms come from well in the previous civilization they came
from religion which gave us a bunch of beliefs about spirit god and the planet and the church
had a wonderful understanding of itself called infallible knowledge this is the belief that
whatever the church was saying was direct from god and it was absolutely true well this would
only work as long as the knowledge was found to be infallible but if something upset that knowledge
it would actually throw a monkey wrench into the civilization and in 1543 a priest by the name of
copernicus revealed that some of this infallible knowledge was quite incorrect remember the belief
of the church was that the earth was the center of the universe and all the stars the sun the planets
were all revolving around the earth copernicus tried to calculate a calendar based on this belief
but it didn't work he actually went back to the age of ptolemy in egypt and found out that the
sun according to the egyptians was the center of our particular universe and that the earth
was revolving around the sun when copernicus put the sun into the center of the universe he was
able to accurately predict the dates of all the ceremonies for the church however in doing so
he created a heresy significance of copernicus's work is that it broke the idea of infallibility
and offered an opportunity for new ideas to come into the world outside of the dogma of
the church there's an old saying that we're all familiar with knowledge is power i go
yeah that's a very true statement but let me also say the statement in a different context
a lack of knowledge represents a lack of power so if we don't have certain knowledge then we become
powerless in the field where that knowledge is applied we now recognize that four fundamental
beliefs that have shaped the culture in what we call the civilization of scientific materialism
four fundamental beliefs that have shaped this culture are found to be flawed or outright wrong
and as a result civilization is expressing a lack of power by adhering to incorrect stories
i refer to these four basic principles that are flawed as the four myth perceptions of the
apocalypse when we use the term myth what we mean is actually a belief that we bought to be true
whether it's true or not we own it as truth and as a result we create a world based on that myth now
if the myth is false then the world that we create is not going to be in harmony with real life what
beliefs did we buy that are now wrong and have taken us out of the harmony on this planet this
is a list of the four myth perceptions that has misdirected civilization myth number one is the
belief in newtonian universe which is a separation of matter from energy and then emphasizing matter
is primary myth number two is the belief that genes control our biology which is a belief
that makes us victims of the heredity of the genes that we receive from our parents myth number three
and four are predicated on the darwinian theory of evolution with myth number three being the
fact that evolution is driven by random mutations accidents and as a result is there any purpose for
our being on this planet no and myth number four is another extension of darwinian theory that says
evolution is driven by a competition for fitness and the struggle for life which then means that
we are now competing with each other to survive rather than recognizing unity and wholeness well
let's start with myth number one and that's the belief that newtonian principles newtonian physics
are the principles that shape the unfolding of our world and the universe in which we live newtonian
principles actually divide the universe into two realms a physical mercurial mechanical realm
versus an invisible energetic realm being humans made out of matter then we are supposed to conform
to the material realm laws provided by newton we just become physical machines but we ignore the
relevance of the invisible realm around us which formerly was referred to as a spiritual realm
so we live in a world without spirituality we live in a world of materiality with the purpose
of what getting more and more matter more and more material to reveal how powerful you are
in this world myth number one the newtonian belief of a material-based universe is incorrect based
on the new science of quantum physics because matter appears to be an illusion when we look
into the structure of the atom it turns out there is no particulate structure that we believe but
it's actually an energy vortex that everything is energy and the significance is this energy cannot
be separated energy represents unity all energy and all individual things that we see as matter
are all energy connected to each other quantum physics is the most valid science on this planet
there is no science that has been tested and affirmed to be more truthful than quantum physics
we have to start recognizing a unity rather than a separation in a material world the old belief
a second belief that turns out to be false is the belief in what we refer to as genetic determinism
the belief in genetic determinism which is a belief that genes determine the characteristic
of our lives well as far as we know we didn't pick the genes we came with also if we don't
like the characteristics we have we can't change the genes and then add on top of that the belief
that genes turn on and off by themselves and then we start to recognize oh my goodness our lives are
controlled by factors that we have no control over that genes control us and we don't control them
we become victims of our heredity well guess what that belief is totally false because we
now know there's a new science it's not called genetics it's called epigenetics in genetics
the genes control our life in epigenetics it's important to understand the meaning of the word
epigenetics and that is because epi means above so what does it mean the characters that we express
are controlled above epi above the genes now we know that our consciousness and our response to
the environment is what controls our genetics through my consciousness and my response to the
environment i can change my genetic activity i can either enhance my genetic expression
or even unfortunately with negative consequences i could destroy myself with
diseases just because of the action of my mind but the action of the mind is under my control
so i'm not a victim of my genetics i am a master of my genetics and as if we understand this then
we wouldn't be facing a health care crisis that is undermining civilization at this moment we
would be powerful enough to control our own lives our own health our own vitality a third belief
that is now found to be flawed is connected to darwinian theory over millions of years accidental
mutations with positive mutations being selected negative mutations being eliminated has led to who
and what we are in this world today so there's a very important understanding about that and it's
based on this if random mutations are the source of evolution the start of an evolutionary process
random by definition means accidental if we're here by a whole series of accidental mutations
then what if any is the purpose of humans on this planet and we start to recognize very simply there
is no purpose to human civilization if it was all random mutations that initiated our evolution
just for example if a particular mutation that made us human didn't accidentally occur
what would be the result today well it turns out this is not really true that evolution is
actually based on adaptation that an organism will adjust its genetics to conform to the environment
and in regard to that just think of humans at the top level of this adaptability
humans can live in any environment on this planet how common the answer is because we can adapt
and it's not an accident it's a purposeful change oh life is a purposeful change what is the purpose
of our existence on this planet the garden that we evolve from every organism that evolved in that
garden participated in keeping the wholeness and the cooperation expressed as a garden we evolved
in that garden and as the indigenous people of this planet already knew and lived they said oh
we are in a garden and that the role of humans is to be a gardener in that garden we must learn now
to live in harmony with the garden and actually return to being gardeners that is the function
that we had to keep balance in this beautiful planet that we arrived in myth number four
happens to be the belief that evolution is driven by competition against one another
this is a false understanding and actually isn't due to darwin it was before darwin at
the end of the 1700s there was a philosopher by the name of thomas malthus he came up with the
idea that plants don't reproduce faster than animals reproduce i go why is that relevant
well if animals are living on the plants and animals are reproducing faster than the plants
there's going to be a point where there's not going to be enough plants for all the animals
that exist the net result meaning a competition for survival and that's where the whole idea in
darwinian theory comes from that we are in a continuous struggle for survival with a
competition for fitness as if there won't be enough for all of us and therefore we have to
be the winner in that challenge however this is a completely misunderstanding of the truth
that we now recognize that evolution is not based on competition it's based on cooperation
it turns out that animals and plants get into an equilibrium and they balance with each other
and it's interesting fact for example in animal reproduction every mating pair when they reproduce
actually reproduce two offspring that will survive to mate again now a clam may have a thousand eggs
but only two clams are going to actually mature what is the point the illusion of competition
is not a valid insight in the world of nature nature is built on cooperation nature is built on
unity that all organisms come together to live in harmony hence a garden and in fact if you actually
go back and understand the root of the word competition competition meant to strive together
to work together to create a better end result rather than a winner loser mentality that we have
bought into today competition means working together and that's what we need to do now
these new alterations to the four myths change our beliefs yes but then understand this
when the beliefs change so does culture and so we are in a transition period right now as we look at
the world crumbling all around us we have to own a very simple fact we're not passive victims in this
process we are the people that are creating this devolution and therefore we are being called on by
nature at this moment to say you better change the way you're living on this planet
or you won't be here in the very near future so the new beliefs that we're talking about the new
understandings of the former myth perceptions the new ones help us move from the hell on earth that
we have just created to actually experiencing heaven on earth and when you understand this
then the nature of the honeymoon effect becomes apparent and that is simply this our consciousness
and our subconscious programs make life a struggle and for most of us every day our life is blah blah
blah working working struggling struggling and struggling but then realize this there's a time
where you might meet someone and you fall in love within 24 hours of falling in love the blah blah
blah world you experience absolutely changes to a world of heaven on earth the honeymoon effect
heaven on earth was always here well if it's always here then how come we're experiencing the
hell of this world falling apart and the answer is simple we built a cultural behavioral system
on false understandings of science we're facing an evolution it's not a passive process it's
a participatory process are we going to work together to create harmony and a new garden or are
we going to let this go by the wayside as we face a looming extinction it's up to us i have high
hopes for us because as the new science reveals we have the power to change our lives and the world
in which we live and when we become aware of that power through the knowledge the knowledge is power
then all of a sudden the world will change and we will end up having heaven on earth for as long as
we want to live on this planet thank you hi i'm bruce lipton author of the best-selling books the
biology of belief spontaneous evolution and the honeymoon effect no doubt if you've been looking
at the news scanning the web or even looking out your window you can see the world's in a state of
chaos and upheaval well it's a very important time for us because we're on the threshold of a new
evolution an evolution that is not the evolution of our body but the evolution of our consciousness
we are not going to be individuals we're going to come together where each of us is a cell in
the body of a new organism called humanity so the relevance about all this is to understand there's
a new science that really reveals how powerful we are as creators well the words sometimes seem
to be complex but i'm so honored and gratitude for after school because when the animations
are hooked to the words the learning experience is greatly amplified they always say a picture
is worth a thousand words well an animation is worth millions of words and the beautiful
words from after school's animations enhance the most important thing we have to know now you are
not a victim we are powerful creators and with the new science we can create heaven on earth
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