Exploring the truth of human existence.

Exploring human origins, consciousness, and universal intelligence through conversations with Universal Beings, The Authentic Human Podcast reveals the truth of creation, the evolution of existence, and the infinite potential of humanity.

Episode 200 of The Authentic Human Podcast, Part 124 of The Story of Creation, explores one of humanity’s deepest tensions: science seeks answers through proof, while universal truth can be directly known through consciousness, instinct, and alignment.

For many people, this conflict creates confusion. You want truth, but you were trained to only trust what can be measured. This conversation offers clarity of the fact that truth is closer than you think.

Humans Were Designed To recognize truth, not endlessly chase it.

In this episode:

• Why humanity struggles to know who or what to trust

• The difference between scientific truth and universal truth

• How truth activates energy, awareness, and inner recognition

• Why suffering increases when humans fight what they already know

• How surrender can unlock human potential and soul purpose

If you’ve felt torn between logic and deeper knowing, this episode may help restore clarity.

Your connection to existence may not need permission, proof, or approval.

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Humans Were Designed To remember truth and participate in creation.

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00:00 Human Origins | Why Humanity Needs Truth Now

01:03 Truth Seeking | Why Humans Don’t Know Who To Trust

01:41 Universal Intelligence | How Truth Activates Your Cells

02:25 Truth Energy | Why Opinions Feel Empty

03:42 Universal Truth | Humans Were Designed To Recognize It

04:26 Truth Detector | How Inner Knowing Actually Works

05:36 Science Conditioning | Why Humans Feel Powerless

07:46 Soul Purpose | Why You Chose This Time

08:21 Science Limits | Why Proof Can Feel Incomplete

10:53 Human Potential | Humans Were Designed To Explore

14:04 Belief Systems | Why Static Answers Create Suffering

15:22 Universal Energies | The Nine Forces of Existence

19:09 Truth Access | What If Answers Arrive Instantly

25:42 Surrender & Freedom | Why Truth Ends Suffering

30:16 Sovereign Awareness | Becoming A Truth Detector

Exploring the truth of human existence.

Exploring human origins, consciousness, and universal intelligence through conversations with Universal Beings, The Authentic Human Podcast reveals the truth of creation, the evolution of existence, and the infinite potential of humanity.

What if the most ancient language in existence was never words?

What if it never needed translation or interpretation – only something that’s already inside of you?

Episode 199 of The Authentic Human Podcast, Part 123 of The Story of Creation, explores a forgotten truth: the original language of existence holds the knowledge and information you’ve been searching for. Before systems, before authority, before conditioning, life communicated through frequency. And it still does.

This episode reveals why so many humans feel disconnected, mentally overwhelmed, or blocked from their purpose. We were trained to search outside ourselves for answers, while the deepest guidance has always moved through us.

Humans Were Designed To hear truth, feel alignment, and participate in creation.

In this episode:

• Why energy is the most ancient language in existence

• How consciousness records experience while existence invites participation

• Why authority cannot replace instinct or inner knowing

• How fear reactions differ from true intuitive signals

• Why emotional triggers can become transformation

• How authentic alignment expands human potential

If you’ve been questioning reality, purpose, consciousness, or why life feels off-path, this conversation will resonate deeply.

The future of humanity may be created by those willing to trust what they feel before the world explains it.

Subscribe for deeper conversations on human origins, consciousness, universal intelligence, existence, and awakening human potential.

Humans Were Designed To remember what they already are.

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Exploring the truth of human existence.

Exploring human origins, consciousness, and universal intelligence through conversations with Universal Beings, The Authentic Human Podcast reveals the truth of creation, the evolution of existence, and the infinite potential of humanity.

You were not meant to feel confused, disconnected, or unsure of yourself.

You were taught to.

Episode198 reveals the deeper truth:

Humanity has been conditioned over generations to distrust its own instincts, ignore its connection to consciousness, and rely on systems that disconnect it from truth.

But something in you has always known.

Humans Were Designed To trust themselves.

Humans Were Designed To feel truth.

Humans Were Designed To participate in existence—not control it.

What you’re feeling isn’t wrong.

It’s recognition.

In this episode, you’ll uncover:

• Why humans were taught not to trust their instincts

• How frequency and vibration shape reality and perception

• The hidden role of purity in protecting truth within you

• How your brain was conditioned to override your awareness

• Why your disconnection is learned—not natural

This is the moment you stop looking outside.

And start remembering what you already know.

If this knowledge and information are triggering you to remember the wisdom within you, don’t ignore it.

Follow it.

0:00 — Human Origins | The Truth About Why You Were Never “Chosen”

1:38 — Human Purpose | Why You’ve Always Questioned Existence

2:58 — Consciousness & Truth | How Humans Were Designed To Recognize Truth

4:16 — Judgment Culture | How Humans Were Trained To Distrust Truth

5:06 — Energy & Matter | What You Were Never Told About Reality

6:31 — Frequency & Vibration | The Hidden System Behind Existence

8:16 — Human Sensitivity | Why You Feel More Than You Can Explain

10:16 — Instinct & Control | Why You Were Taught Not To Trust Yourself

13:11 — Creation Timeline | The Lie About How Humans Were Created

14:30 — Purity Frequency | The Part of You That Cannot Be Changed

20:57 — Trust & Existence | Why Trust Has Nothing To Do With Others

26:48 — Brain Conditioning | How Your Mind Was Trained Against You

41:30 — Identity & Misalignment | Why Your Life Feels Off

53:23 — Human Awakening | Humans Were Designed To Remember

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Exploring the truth of human existence.

Exploring human origins, consciousness, and universal intelligence through conversations with Universal Beings, The Authentic Human Podcast reveals the truth of creation, the evolution of existence, and the infinite potential of humanity.

There’s a moment most people never say out loud:

You feel something deeper… but you don’t fully trust it.

Episode197 is where that changes.

Through direct communication with the Creator and Universal Beings, a forgotten truth is revealed:

You were never disconnected.

You were trained to ignore what you already know.

Humans Were Designed To access infinite intelligence—not through learning, but through remembering.

Your body already holds the answers.

Your cells already respond to truth.

Your emotions were never meant to control you—only to guide you.

In this episode:

• Why you feel there’s more—but can’t explain it

• How your mind blocks access to your true potential

• The truth about your body’s connection to universal intelligence

• Why most people override their own inner knowing

• How to begin restoring your natural state of awareness

This is not about becoming something new.

It’s about removing what was never yours.

If something in you recognizes this… follow it.

Feel it.

Act on it.

Return to your origins.

0:00 — Human Awareness | You Feel There’s More for a Reason

2:57 — Human Conditioning | What You Were Taught vs What’s Real

5:29 — Consciousness | Why Your Mind Can’t Access Truth

6:55 — Human Origins | Humans Were Designed To Participate in Collective Intelligence

8:39 — Inner Knowing | Why You Already Have the Answers

11:40 — Innate Intelligence | Humans Were Designed To Function Without Control

12:47 — Evolution | The Truth About the First Humans

16:29 — Science & Perception | Why Knowledge Has Limits

20:21 — Emotions & Energy | How You Program Your Own Body

23:06 — Human Potential | Why You’re Creating What You Don’t Want

28:57 — Self-Doubt | Why You Don’t Trust Your Own Knowing

32:15 — Healing | Restoring Your Natural Intelligence

36:28 — Infinite Intelligence | Why You’re Not Meant To Search for Truth

38:56 — Addiction | The Hidden Pattern of Disconnection

42:06 — Sovereignty | Why What You Feel Actually Matters

45:44 — Restoration | Humans Were Designed To Return to Balance

47:01 — Awakening | Remembering Who You Truly Are

If this episode resonates with you, continue exploring The Story of Creation series and begin reconnecting with the deeper truth of your human existence.

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Exploring the truth of human existence.

Exploring human origins, consciousness, and universal intelligence through conversations with Universal Beings, The Authentic Human Podcast reveals the truth of creation, the evolution of existence, and the infinite potential of humanity.

In episode196, Part 120 of The Story of Creation, the illusion of “seeking truth” is dismantled.

You were never meant to search for truth.

You were designed to access it.

Through direct universal communication, this episode reveals how humanity was disconnected from its natural ability to receive pure, undistorted information—and why the systems around you were built to keep you looking outward instead of inward.

Humans Were Designed To know.

To feel.

To access consciousness as the living library of existence.

But truth isn’t something you demand.

It’s something you align with.

Key insights in this episode:

• Why “seeking truth” is the very thing keeping you disconnected from it

• How consciousness holds all information—and why nothing is actually hidden from you

• The real reason control and manipulation were introduced into human existence

• How the internet and external systems mimic—but replace—your natural connection to truth

• Why your discomfort around truth is actually your expansion into your highest potential

The moment you stop searching…

you begin remembering.

Your connection to universal intelligence has never been broken.

Your access to truth has never been removed.

It has only been redirected.

Humans Were Designed To remember who they are.

If you’re ready to stop seeking and start accessing—this is where it begins.

0:00 Human Origins | Why Truth Was Never Meant To Be Searched For

1:41 Consciousness | The Library of All Existence Explained

4:39 Belief Systems | How Control Was Disguised As Stability

5:41 Consciousness & Information | Humans Were Designed To Receive Directly

6:24 The Internet | How Humans Were Redirected Away From Truth

7:33 Truth Defined | What Pure, Undistorted Information Really Is

10:31 Identity & Worth | The Lie That You’re Not Allowed To Know

14:37 Energy & Vibration | Where Truth Actually Exists

15:14 Human Potential | Humans Were Designed To Experience Abundance

16:29 Fear of Truth | Why You Resist Becoming Who You Are

20:01 Inner Navigation | Your Permanent Connection To Truth

21:39 Awakening Humanity | Why Control Reached Billions

23:18 Human Relationships | Why Truth Forces Identity Shifts

25:01 Avoidance Patterns | Why Humans Hide From Their Own Power

28:08 Existence & Purpose | Why You Came Here To Expand Reality

33:34 Self Worth | Humanity’s Greatest Limitation Revealed

37:41 Self Connection | Loving Yourself Beyond Human Identity

40:40 Future Potential | The Cost of Letting Others Define You

45:28 Expansion & Growth | Why Truth Feels Uncomfortable First

46:37 Human Awakening | Humans Were Designed To Become More

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Exploring the truth of human existence.

Exploring human origins, consciousness, and universal intelligence through conversations with Universal Beings, The Authentic Human Podcast reveals the truth of creation, the evolution of existence, and the infinite potential of humanity.

Why do humans exist?

Not as a concept.

Not as a theory.

But as truth.

Humans were originally created in full conscious awareness of existence itself—designed to feel, to experience, and to participate in the expansion of universal intelligence.

What you’re living inside right now is not that.

This episode reveals how humanity became disconnected from its true nature through control, conditioning, and manipulation—and why that era is now ending.

Humans Were Designed To feel the energy of existence… not be confined by systems that suppress it.

This conversation with Universal Beings exposes the origin of human existence, the forces that shaped your current reality, and the awakening that is already underway.

In this episode, you’ll discover:

• Why humans were created in full conscious awareness of existence

• How control and manipulation reshaped human identity and society

• The truth about the beings that influenced human experience

• Why emotional reactions are not the same as true energetic awareness

• How the nine fundamental energies define your existence and unlock your human potential

You are not here to search for meaning.

You are here to experience existence.

This is where you begin to remember.

Feel what is real.

Reconnect to your energy.

Step into your human potential.

00:00 — Human Existence | Why Humans Ask “Why Do We Exist?”

02:18 — Human Origins | When Humans Were Fully Aware of Existence

05:00 — Universal Beings | The Forces That Shaped Human Reality

07:38 — Control & Manipulation | The Truth Behind Hidden Influence

09:42 — Belief Systems | Why Humans Were Taught to Chase Purpose

12:18 — Truth Awareness | Why Control Depends on Misrepresentation

14:31 — Energy & Consciousness | Humans Were Designed To Feel Existence

17:15 — Universal Intelligence | The Abilities Humans Have Forgotten

18:38 — Emotional Conditioning | How Feeling Was Used to Control You

20:24 — Duality & Society | Why Humans Feel Trapped in This Reality

22:28 — Human Experience | The “Sterile” World Disconnecting You

24:50 — Creation & Existence | The Nine Energies That Define You

26:48 — Awakening Shift | Why Control Is Coming to an End

29:11 — Human Evolution | The 9-Month Rebirth of Consciousness

33:30 — Future of Humanity | Why Society Is Not the Future

36:42 — Self Alignment | Becoming Who You Were Designed To Be

39:27 — Stress & Identity | Why Misalignment Creates Suffering

43:29 — Emotional Reality | What’s Really Holding Society Together

44:45 — True Existence | Humans Were Designed To Feel and Remember

Learn more about the 9 Fundamental Energies of existence: https://michellevickers.com/believe-book/

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Exploring the truth of human existence.

Exploring human origins, consciousness, and universal intelligence through conversations with Universal Beings, The Authentic Human Podcast reveals the truth of creation, the evolution of existence, and the infinite potential of humanity.

In Part 118 of the Story of Creation series, Universal Beings reveal a profound shift: humans were never designed to think their way through existence… they were designed to feel it.

This episode challenges everything you’ve been taught about learning, awareness, and truth. It exposes how the mind has been conditioned to disconnect you from your natural state of consciousness—and how your soul already holds the answers you’ve been searching for.

Humans Were Designed To feel into energy, not judge through the mind.

Humans Were Designed To access truth through experience, not information.

Humans Were Designed To participate in evolution, not react to the world.

Key insights from this episode:

• Why judgment disconnects you from universal intelligence

• The difference between consciousness and a conscious state of being

• How your soul designed your life before you were born

• Why seeking external answers keeps you trapped in illusion

• How feeling into energy unlocks your true human potential

You are not here to fix the world.

You are here to create what has never existed before.

If you’re ready to reconnect with your soul, access deeper levels of consciousness, and awaken your role in the evolution of existence—this episode will activate something within you.

00:00 – Human Existence | Humans Were Designed To Feel Truth Within

02:24 – Creation & Perspective | Why Truth Is Revealed through Connection

03:41 – Universal Beings | The Role of Angelics in Creating Experience

04:29 – Co-Creation | Why Humans Instinctively Want To Improve Reality

05:38 – Judgment vs Energy | Why Thinking Blocks True Awareness

07:09 – Conscious Creation | Humans Were Designed To Feel Into “Why”

07:30 – Consciousness Defined | Why It’s a Record of Existence

09:08 – Human Conditioning | Why Humans Feel Lost and Disconnected

10:45 – Personal Authority | Reclaiming Control of Your Energy

11:36 – Soul Contracts | Why You Chose This Life Experience

14:41 – Life Purpose | Humans Were Designed To Fulfill a Soul Assignment

16:36 – Conscious State of Being | The Truth About Awareness vs Consciousness

18:57 – Human Evolution | Why Humanity Lost Its Original Connection

20:21 – Manipulation & Control | Why Distraction Blocks Your Awareness

23:59 – Truth Seeking | Why You Won’t Find Answers in the Mind

25:42 – Future Creation | Humans Were Designed To Create What Doesn’t Exist Yet

27:53 – Universal Alignment | Why Even Control Operates Within Existence

30:06 – Awakening Defined | Why Awareness Is Not What You Think

30:50 – Soul Connection | How to Start Feeling Into Your Energy

33:23 – Distraction & Busyness | The Real Strategy Behind Disconnection

35:21 – Human Purpose | Humans Were Designed To Play in Existence

37:41 – Evolution | What “Better” Actually Means for Humanity

39:19 – Soul Communication | How Answers Are Delivered Through Energy

41:46 – Humanity’s Shift | Humans Were Designed To Remember and Create

If this episode resonates with you, continue exploring The Story of Creation series and begin reconnecting with the deeper truth of your human existence.

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Exploring the truth of human existence.

Exploring human origins, consciousness, and universal intelligence through conversations with Universal Beings, The Authentic Human Podcast reveals the truth of creation, the evolution of existence, and the infinite potential of humanity.

You are not human.

At least… not in the way you’ve been taught to believe.

This episode reveals a deeper truth about existence:

you were not created to “be human”…

you were created to participate in existence itself.

Humans Were Designed To generate energy, expand consciousness, and create reality through intention.

Being human is simply the experience — not the identity.

Through guidance from Universal Beings, part 117 of The Story of Creation dissolves the illusion of limitation and reconnects you to your sovereign intelligence — your direct relationship with universal intelligence and the source of creation itself.

Key insights from episode193:

• Intention becomes energy, and energy becomes experience — the foundation of all creation

• Your fear of power is what disconnects you from your true potential

• You are not the source — you are connected to the source of existence itself

• Death does not exist — only continuous expansion of consciousness

• Humanity’s future depends on individuals remembering who they truly are

Humans Were Designed To remember.

To expand.

To create beyond limitation.

If something in you reacts to the words “you are not human”…

that reaction is your awareness waking up.

Watch the full episode and reconnect with your true role in existence.

0:00 — Human Identity | Why You Are Not Human

2:09 — Human Power | Why Humans Fear Their Own Energy

2:58 — Energy Awareness | Why You Don’t Trust What You Feel

4:48 — Universal Intelligence | Why Truth Is Revealed in Layers

6:32 — Human Perception | Why Challenges Are Not Setbacks

7:47 — Energy & Fear | Why Humans Block Their Own Power

8:15 — Soul Awareness | Why There Is No Unsafe Place for a Soul

9:34 — Identity & Trauma | Why Humans Were Designed To Release Fear

10:57 — Creation Equation | Humans Were Designed To Create Reality

12:44 — Human Origins | Your Direct Relationship With the Universe

14:27 — Human Potential | Your Energy Can Transform Humanity

18:42 — Intention & Truth | Why Simplicity Unlocks Power

24:04 — Life Purpose | Your Life Is the Intention You Chose

33:08 — Death & Existence | How Long Were Humans Designed To Live

35:38 — Fulfillment | Humans Were Designed To Flow Energy

41:40 — Trust & Awareness | Why Feeling Truth Changes Everything

44:34 — Sovereign Intelligence | Humans Were Designed To Remember

If this episode resonates with you, continue exploring The Story of Creation series and begin reconnecting with the deeper truth of your human existence.

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Exploring the truth of human existence.

Exploring human origins, consciousness, and universal intelligence through conversations with Universal Beings, The Authentic Human Podcast reveals the truth of creation, the evolution of existence, and the infinite potential of humanity.

In Part 116 of The Story of Creation, the illusion of reality is dismantled.

What you have been taught to trust… was designed to disconnect you.

Episode192 reveals why humanity was never meant to be saved, why waiting is the greatest form of control, and how sovereign intelligence restores your direct access to truth, consciousness, and universal intelligence.

Humans Were Designed To remember.

Not follow. Not wait. Not be rescued.

You were designed to access everything.

This is the shift from dependence… to participation in existence itself.

In this episode:

• Why “reality” is an illusion designed to limit human consciousness

• The truth about Jesus, compassion, and the distortion of saviour energy

• How humanity was trained to wait instead of participate

• What sovereign intelligence really is—and how to access it instantly

• Why your intention determines your access to universal abundance

Humans Were Designed To access consciousness directly—without permission, without hierarchy, without delay.

If you’ve ever felt disconnected, lost, or like something about existence doesn’t make sense… this is where that awareness begins to restore itself.

Watch fully.

This is not information.

This is remembrance.

0:00 — Restoring Sovereign Intelligence in Humanity | Why You Already Have the Answers

1:48 — Human Origins | Why Truth Is Revealed in Layers

2:31 — Mind Control & Belief Systems | Why Humans Doubt Their Own Origins

4:41 — Religion & Perception | The Misunderstanding of Jesus

7:30 — Compassion & Consciousness | What Jesus Was Designed To Represent

9:28 — Saviour Energy | Why Humans Were Designed To Participate, Not Wait

11:11 — Personal Power | Why No One Is Coming To Save You

12:51 — Self-Governance | Reclaiming Your Sovereign Intelligence

13:26 — Hero Worship | Why Humans Feel Disconnected and Lost

16:13 — Consciousness Explained | Why You Don’t Need To Store Knowledge

17:41 — Soul Creation | The Strategic Design of Human Existence

19:23 — Awakening Divide | Why Some Humans Reject Truth

22:49 — Energy & Vibration | Why Humans Were Designed To Understand Frequency

26:01 — Free Will & Experience | Why Humans Were Designed To Expand Existence

28:09 — Participation vs Complaining | Why Energy Determines Outcomes

30:01 — Universal Resources | Why You Already Have Access to Everything

30:58 — Independent Wealth | Understanding True Abundance

33:27 — Time & Money Illusion | Breaking the Control System

34:11 — Universal Abundance | Humans Were Designed To Align With Everything

If this episode resonates with you, continue exploring The Story of Creation series and begin reconnecting with the deeper truth of your human existence.

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Exploring the truth of human existence.

Exploring human origins, consciousness, and universal intelligence through conversations with Universal Beings, The Authentic Human Podcast reveals the truth of creation, the evolution of existence, and the infinite potential of humanity.

In Episode 191, Part 115 of The Story of Creation, a deeper truth is revealed—one that humanity has been conditioned to overlook.

The greatest manipulation was never hiding truth…

It was convincing you it isn’t real—and that you can’t access it.

This episode reveals how trust was created as a universal bridge—designed to return you to your sovereign awareness, reconnect you with your soul, and allow you to experience existence as it was always intended.

Humans Were Designed To trust, not blindly…

But as a conscious reconnection to truth beyond the mind.

Inside this episode:

• The two greatest lies that shaped human belief systems and divided humanity

• Why consciousness cannot be accessed through the mind—and what replaces it

• The origin of universal trust and how it restores your connection to truth

• How dreams act as direct communication from your soul

• Why sovereignty begins when you stop trying to control existence

This knowledge matters because it changes how you see yourself, your purpose, and your place within existence.

You are not here to follow.

You are here to remember.

Your next step is not force.

It is awareness.

Watch this episode and begin reconnecting with the truth of who you are.

0:00 Human Origins & Consciousness | Why Truth Was Never Hidden—Only Denied

4:28 Universal Beings & Human Existence | Why Some Humans Were Designed To Hold Truth

13:33 Human Consciousness & Manipulation | Why Your Mind Was Designed To Be Controlled

16:36 Trust & Human Awareness | Why Trust Was Created to Bring You Back to Truth

17:09 Trust & Universal Intelligence | The Bridge Between Truth and Illusion

17:46 Human Evolution & Existence | Why Trust Lets You Begin Again Without Ending Your Life

19:46 Human Potential & Purpose | Why This Is Your Greatest Opportunity in Existence

20:55 Sovereignty & Human Identity | Why You Were Designed To Lead Yourself First

23:35 Surrender & Universal Intelligence | Why Letting Go Unlocks Your True Power

25:51 Dreams & Human Consciousness | Why Your Soul Is Speaking to You While You Sleep

31:39 Energy & Human Awareness | Why Feelings Are Blocking What Energy Is Trying To Show You

If this episode resonates with you, continue exploring The Story of Creation series and begin reconnecting with the deeper truth of your human existence.

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