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It can be so easy to get caught up in the drama of life and experience suffering because of this. But when we begin to explore the nature of our thinking and see that it is a spiritual energy coming to life within us, our suffering eases.
You can listen above, on your favorite podcast app, or watch on YouTube. Notes, links, resources and a full transcript are below.
Show Notes
Resources Mentioned in this Episode
Transcript of this episode
Hello explorers and welcome to Q&A Episode 47 of Unbroken. I’m Alexandra Amor. Thank you for being here with me today. I appreciate it.
Before we kick off today’s subject, which is how is our thinking like television, I wanted to do a couple of quick housekeeping items.
The first one is that we’re coming up to a year of Unbroken podcast, which is very exciting. I started on February 14 to 2023. And this episode that I’m recording now will go out on January 8 2024. So almost a year of episodes. 47 Q&A episodes and 47 interview episodes. I’m really proud of everything that I accomplished in this past almost year.
And as we do, I’ve been contemplating things over the holiday time when I had to had a few days off. What I realized is that I have some projects that I’d really like to work on in this coming year. And that releasing two podcast episodes a week is a bit of an impediment to that. It’s a lot of work, recording two episodes per week. So what I’m going to do is change the schedule up a little bit, and switch to one episode per week.
Starting the week of January 15 there will just be one episode of Unbroken each week on Thursday. And I’m going to alternate between interview episodes and these this type of solo shows that I do, where I talk about what I’m seeing, and what the insights that I’ve had and what I’m observing, and that kind of thing. So yeah, like I say, that’ll start the week of January 15.
January 18 will be the first of that kind of episodes.
And it’ll actually be an interview with I think it will be with Gail, Dr. Gail Brenner. So you can keep your eyes and ears open for that.
And then what else? What other housekeeping did I have? Oh, yes. I’ve talked a little bit lately about being in the back of the spiral. If you’ve listened to previous episodes, I’ve mentioned that a couple of times. I’ve come out of the back of the spiral. So that’s exciting news. And I’m really thrilled about it.
So I think what I’ll do is I’ll talk about that on the first solo episode after I make this schedule change. So that’ll be later in January, maybe the 18th or something like that, I think. I’m not quite sure. I’ll talk about what that was like, for me the insights that I had the things I’ve seen. And I’ll go over again, what it meant to me to be going through the back of the spiral, and how even on the darkest days, it was nice to know that it was just a natural part of the learning and growing process like I talked about on a previous episode, so stay tuned for that.
Okay, so today, I want to get into this metaphor that I heard recently, and how I think it relates to the Inside Out understanding. And this was a metaphor that I heard from a man called Bruce Greyson. He’s a scientist who specializes in near-death experiences, if you can believe it. This had nothing, absolutely nothing to do with the Three Principles or the Inside Out understanding. I heard him on Lian Brook-Tyler’s podcast, called Waking the Wild. And then I also heard him on another podcast and I can’t remember whose it was but he is a really interesting guy.
Really fascinating studies that he’s done about near-death experiences, and what people experience when they have that kind of a situation that goes on. But none of that matters for this episode of Unbroken.
What does matter is, he used this really great metaphor, so I’m going to borrow that metaphor from him. I can’t even remember what he was talking about this or what it meant to him, but he had this great metaphor about television, and how when we watch a television – and these days, of course, we watch a lot of things on our laptops to TV shows and stuff like that movies – we know that whatever’s going on on the show isn’t happening inside the TV set, or inside the computer. We know for sure, from probably a pretty young age, maybe not super young. But eventually we figure it out that those aren’t little tiny people walking around inside the TV set. They don’t live in there.
The show is actually being broadcast from somewhere else.
It’s coming into the television set from somewhere else. And when Bruce Greyson shared this metaphor, I thought, Oh, that’s really close to, or a really good description of our experience of thinking as well. And the reason I say that is because our experience of thinking is coming to life within us. But it is coming to life from somewhere else.
Thought is a spiritual energy that’s coming to life, coming into us, and then creating our experience via consciousness.
That’s how we’re experiencing the world. And one of the things I thought of that was parallel to this metaphor that he was using, was that everything that so for example, I was watching over the holidays, the show Slow Horses, which is based on a series of books, it’s a show on Apple TV. And it’s entirely set in the UK, mostly set in London. And what I reflected on was that, when I’m watching that show, and it’s based in a place like London, in a way, I know that I’m not experiencing London, as it really is.
I’m experiencing what the television show is showing me about London. But I don’t think that that’s all that London is, is just what they’re showing me.
When it comes to our thinking, there’s a real similarity in that we are only ever experiencing what we’re thinking.
And we can, it’s kind of a paradox, but we can never really be experiencing what’s going on outside of us. Everything that’s happening, whether it’s our boss, or our co-worker, or our flat tire on our car, or our experience of food, we’re only ever experiencing what’s going on in our thinking. So the parallel to this television metaphor would be like, if you were never able to visit London, and the only way that you were ever able to experience London was through a screen. So through a television screen or through a computer screen, if you were using looking at Google Maps, or Google Earth.
If that’s the only way you could experience London, that’s similar to what’s going on when we are experiencing anything in the world.
Because we experience it via our thinking. And when we’re new to this understanding, it can be a little bit challenging to get our heads around how that might work. But pretty quickly, we can see that that’s actually the truth. One of the easiest ways that we can see that this is true, is that you can just simply go to a movie with a friend or a group of friends and ask them all at the end what they thought of the movie, and you’ll get several different opinions right about that.
We can do that about a meal or about a day out in in a city or about a conversation with somebody. If I’m having a conversation with somebody in there somebody there with me, listening, their experience of what happened can be completely different than my experience. And what that points to is what’s going on with our thinking and where our experience of life is coming from.
It’s coming from Thought, it’s coming from the thinking that we have about that situation. And like I say, it can take a bit to get our heads around this. And the thing that I found, I find still find too, a little bit perplexing is that, so there’s no real reality.
There’s no absolute truth about anything, because we are only ever experiencing our thinking about that thing.
I bring this up, because when it comes to resolving an unwanted habit, like overeating, when we begin to see the impact that our thinking is having on us, especially when we’re unaware of where it’s coming from, and we begin to notice the natural movement and rhythm of our thinking that it can get stirred up, but that it is designed to settle down again, automatically.
And that as Dicken Bettinger said on last week’s Thursday episode, we tend to be in in one of two states were either really caught up in our thinking, or we’re not. We’re in a more peaceful place. And of course, that exists on a spectrum. And he was simplifying it for us so we could see what was really going on.
We could say the television screen, in this television metaphor, is either on or it’s off. And when it’s on, it has the power to create all kinds of experiences in us. And this is just like a television or a movie screen as well. We can be sitting on a couch, eating popcorn, very comfortable in our pajamas.
We can be terrified, or we can be crying our eyes out, or laughing. All those are things being generated, not from people who are in the room with us, or ‘real experiences’ that we’re having, but from what’s happening on the screen. And that’s exactly the same as our thinking.
Consciousness makes our experience so vivid. And that’s its job.
It’s designed, we are designed, to experience life this way, of course, otherwise, it would be a lot less fun. And just like that TV screen, it can create all kinds of experiences within us, everything on the emotional spectrum.
So I just thought I would mention that metaphor it, it really caught my interest when I was listening to Bruce Greyson on that on those podcasts. And I thought it was a really good one to help if you are at the beginning, or even the middle of getting your head around this inside out understanding.
I hope that was helpful for you today and that you were doing well and taking care. And I will see you …so I would there won’t be another short episode next Monday. Just a reminder, and we will go to a Thursday only schedule from now on, alternating between interviews, and then episodes like this where I share what I’ve been seeing.
So take care and I will see you next time. Bye.
Featured image photo by Stephen Monterroso on Unsplash
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It can be so easy to get caught up in the drama of life and experience suffering because of this. But when we begin to explore the nature of our thinking and see that it is a spiritual energy coming to life within us, our suffering eases.
You can listen above, on your favorite podcast app, or watch on YouTube. Notes, links, resources and a full transcript are below.
Show Notes
Resources Mentioned in this Episode
Transcript of this episode
Hello explorers and welcome to Q&A Episode 47 of Unbroken. I’m Alexandra Amor. Thank you for being here with me today. I appreciate it.
Before we kick off today’s subject, which is how is our thinking like television, I wanted to do a couple of quick housekeeping items.
The first one is that we’re coming up to a year of Unbroken podcast, which is very exciting. I started on February 14 to 2023. And this episode that I’m recording now will go out on January 8 2024. So almost a year of episodes. 47 Q&A episodes and 47 interview episodes. I’m really proud of everything that I accomplished in this past almost year.
And as we do, I’ve been contemplating things over the holiday time when I had to had a few days off. What I realized is that I have some projects that I’d really like to work on in this coming year. And that releasing two podcast episodes a week is a bit of an impediment to that. It’s a lot of work, recording two episodes per week. So what I’m going to do is change the schedule up a little bit, and switch to one episode per week.
Starting the week of January 15 there will just be one episode of Unbroken each week on Thursday. And I’m going to alternate between interview episodes and these this type of solo shows that I do, where I talk about what I’m seeing, and what the insights that I’ve had and what I’m observing, and that kind of thing. So yeah, like I say, that’ll start the week of January 15.
January 18 will be the first of that kind of episodes.
And it’ll actually be an interview with I think it will be with Gail, Dr. Gail Brenner. So you can keep your eyes and ears open for that.
And then what else? What other housekeeping did I have? Oh, yes. I’ve talked a little bit lately about being in the back of the spiral. If you’ve listened to previous episodes, I’ve mentioned that a couple of times. I’ve come out of the back of the spiral. So that’s exciting news. And I’m really thrilled about it.
So I think what I’ll do is I’ll talk about that on the first solo episode after I make this schedule change. So that’ll be later in January, maybe the 18th or something like that, I think. I’m not quite sure. I’ll talk about what that was like, for me the insights that I had the things I’ve seen. And I’ll go over again, what it meant to me to be going through the back of the spiral, and how even on the darkest days, it was nice to know that it was just a natural part of the learning and growing process like I talked about on a previous episode, so stay tuned for that.
Okay, so today, I want to get into this metaphor that I heard recently, and how I think it relates to the Inside Out understanding. And this was a metaphor that I heard from a man called Bruce Greyson. He’s a scientist who specializes in near-death experiences, if you can believe it. This had nothing, absolutely nothing to do with the Three Principles or the Inside Out understanding. I heard him on Lian Brook-Tyler’s podcast, called Waking the Wild. And then I also heard him on another podcast and I can’t remember whose it was but he is a really interesting guy.
Really fascinating studies that he’s done about near-death experiences, and what people experience when they have that kind of a situation that goes on. But none of that matters for this episode of Unbroken.
What does matter is, he used this really great metaphor, so I’m going to borrow that metaphor from him. I can’t even remember what he was talking about this or what it meant to him, but he had this great metaphor about television, and how when we watch a television – and these days, of course, we watch a lot of things on our laptops to TV shows and stuff like that movies – we know that whatever’s going on on the show isn’t happening inside the TV set, or inside the computer. We know for sure, from probably a pretty young age, maybe not super young. But eventually we figure it out that those aren’t little tiny people walking around inside the TV set. They don’t live in there.
The show is actually being broadcast from somewhere else.
It’s coming into the television set from somewhere else. And when Bruce Greyson shared this metaphor, I thought, Oh, that’s really close to, or a really good description of our experience of thinking as well. And the reason I say that is because our experience of thinking is coming to life within us. But it is coming to life from somewhere else.
Thought is a spiritual energy that’s coming to life, coming into us, and then creating our experience via consciousness.
That’s how we’re experiencing the world. And one of the things I thought of that was parallel to this metaphor that he was using, was that everything that so for example, I was watching over the holidays, the show Slow Horses, which is based on a series of books, it’s a show on Apple TV. And it’s entirely set in the UK, mostly set in London. And what I reflected on was that, when I’m watching that show, and it’s based in a place like London, in a way, I know that I’m not experiencing London, as it really is.
I’m experiencing what the television show is showing me about London. But I don’t think that that’s all that London is, is just what they’re showing me.
When it comes to our thinking, there’s a real similarity in that we are only ever experiencing what we’re thinking.
And we can, it’s kind of a paradox, but we can never really be experiencing what’s going on outside of us. Everything that’s happening, whether it’s our boss, or our co-worker, or our flat tire on our car, or our experience of food, we’re only ever experiencing what’s going on in our thinking. So the parallel to this television metaphor would be like, if you were never able to visit London, and the only way that you were ever able to experience London was through a screen. So through a television screen or through a computer screen, if you were using looking at Google Maps, or Google Earth.
If that’s the only way you could experience London, that’s similar to what’s going on when we are experiencing anything in the world.
Because we experience it via our thinking. And when we’re new to this understanding, it can be a little bit challenging to get our heads around how that might work. But pretty quickly, we can see that that’s actually the truth. One of the easiest ways that we can see that this is true, is that you can just simply go to a movie with a friend or a group of friends and ask them all at the end what they thought of the movie, and you’ll get several different opinions right about that.
We can do that about a meal or about a day out in in a city or about a conversation with somebody. If I’m having a conversation with somebody in there somebody there with me, listening, their experience of what happened can be completely different than my experience. And what that points to is what’s going on with our thinking and where our experience of life is coming from.
It’s coming from Thought, it’s coming from the thinking that we have about that situation. And like I say, it can take a bit to get our heads around this. And the thing that I found, I find still find too, a little bit perplexing is that, so there’s no real reality.
There’s no absolute truth about anything, because we are only ever experiencing our thinking about that thing.
I bring this up, because when it comes to resolving an unwanted habit, like overeating, when we begin to see the impact that our thinking is having on us, especially when we’re unaware of where it’s coming from, and we begin to notice the natural movement and rhythm of our thinking that it can get stirred up, but that it is designed to settle down again, automatically.
And that as Dicken Bettinger said on last week’s Thursday episode, we tend to be in in one of two states were either really caught up in our thinking, or we’re not. We’re in a more peaceful place. And of course, that exists on a spectrum. And he was simplifying it for us so we could see what was really going on.
We could say the television screen, in this television metaphor, is either on or it’s off. And when it’s on, it has the power to create all kinds of experiences in us. And this is just like a television or a movie screen as well. We can be sitting on a couch, eating popcorn, very comfortable in our pajamas.
We can be terrified, or we can be crying our eyes out, or laughing. All those are things being generated, not from people who are in the room with us, or ‘real experiences’ that we’re having, but from what’s happening on the screen. And that’s exactly the same as our thinking.
Consciousness makes our experience so vivid. And that’s its job.
It’s designed, we are designed, to experience life this way, of course, otherwise, it would be a lot less fun. And just like that TV screen, it can create all kinds of experiences within us, everything on the emotional spectrum.
So I just thought I would mention that metaphor it, it really caught my interest when I was listening to Bruce Greyson on that on those podcasts. And I thought it was a really good one to help if you are at the beginning, or even the middle of getting your head around this inside out understanding.
I hope that was helpful for you today and that you were doing well and taking care. And I will see you …so I would there won’t be another short episode next Monday. Just a reminder, and we will go to a Thursday only schedule from now on, alternating between interviews, and then episodes like this where I share what I’ve been seeing.
So take care and I will see you next time. Bye.
Featured image photo by Stephen Monterroso on Unsplash
The post Q&A 47 – How our thinking is like a television appeared first on Alexandra Amor Books.