some people that aren't these extreme adventure sport athletes well the same can go for mania if mania is sort of a flow state can one bring some of those elements into one's daily life to be more flowy in daily life instead of just following into the cycle of depression and then not taking anything of value from the mania I feel like if something's taken and practiced then maybe the depression won't happen so much I also had a thought that it seems that there is an evolutionary force that's trying to shut down the prefrontal cortex so mania addictions schizophrenia you know probably various mental until illnesses shut down the prefrontal cortex which is the me the linear thinking the sense of separation and then there's a lot of movement consciously to shut it down through mindfulness through meditation through yoga through so many things that people are doing on a daily basis to shut it down and in terms of the flow state that shot sit down so flow is so great like why do we need this prefrontal cortex at all where do we get it from one of my questions is why do we condition kids out of their flow because I feel they're in flow when they're born to a certain point when they go to school and I learn the rules and they learn this and they learn the judgments and they learn how to measure themselves again and compare and then here goes the yammering voice yadi yadi yadi why do we give people why do we get children that voice at all and then we cradles hoopla and self-help and even this if this research about flow be like wow it's so amazingly flow right flow we got to be in flow well we were in flow when we were kids so why do we keep giving our kids this why are we allowing them to inherit this why do we keep going on with this and then interestingly enough I don't know much about the neuroanatomy or neurophysiology or neuro electricity or neurobiology of autism but I'm guessing that there's something ask you with the prefrontal cortex which is the me which is the thinking which is the reasoning which is the rationality which is the judgment which is the words which is the language why are such a large percentage of children acquiring or whatever happens of course there's lots of debate about why there's so many children that are autistic or on the spectrum they're not picking up language I feel that language is actually the problem we're talking about old genetics of this and genetics of that I mentioned in another video is really the memes it's the memetics it's the words we're poisoning each other with our words and now there's a generation of children being born or it's been going on for a while and I think it'll only get worse that are not able to pick up the language in the same way something that you know 20 years ago was taken for granted that a child would just pick up language now all of a sudden there's a whole profession and so many people trained on how to intervene to shove language down these children's throats who can't acquire it and we never questioned the words themselves we never questioned what it is we're trying to force them to acquire and I feel like the prefrontal cortex is on its way out through people going through these spontaneous crises and transformations and not being steady state and so many people meditating there's so many people trying to get rid of the very thing that we're trying to impress upon these autistic children and I'm not trying to say don't teach them language I'm just it's just very sad and interesting to me that I feel autism is evolutionary as well just like mental health and mania and this energy coming up through people in mania and in another video I talked about the spontaneous social behaviors that will stave off extinction and I feel a lot of those are expressed or someone in mania with their hyper altruism and sort of dissipate it out to the multitude and then the person crashes and instead of seeing them as sort of a hero temporary hero in a way they're seen as ill one day that will change and it is different in different cultures like the shamanic tradition a person is actually seen and supported to to cultivate their visionary abilities and to be a healer because they're recognized as this person is a healer look what they're already doing now let's support them to work towards integrating that so they can be that way on a daily basis embodied mania hello which is just another word and i actually created a word i called it show mania cuz i actually feel shamanism is shame anism i don't really know tomato tomahto I don't know the right way to say it I actually like shamanism better but I've heard a lot of people that are shaman's I jamin so I created a little word it's called Romania just sort of uniting the two views of shamanism and mania not that they're completely congruent but just to show parallels that if I was to create something around embodying ones mania I might call it shoe mania even though I know nothing about shamanism but anyways back to the autism my niece has autism and she is a genius like what I also feel is that it proves in a way that intelligence has nothing whatsoever to do with language and thought she's very intelligent she doesn't have that much language she's getting there she is enough to communicate with us but she can use an iphone and an ipad and play Nintendo and we like nobody's business and she's like three years old when she was able to do that I don't know what she is now in for and she's so athletic she's so energetic she's just brilliant and all that whatever she she didn't do almost anything without language that we do with our language so another part of the autism thing to me and I empathize with it because I have a nice but I don't empathize at the same time because there's nothing wrong with her she's a freakin genius and again it just shows you don't need thought so many there is action without thought and this relates to J Krishnamurti who I may have mentioned but I've read a lot of his stuff and he talks about action without thought and to me autistic children are showing you don't need thought in terms of words for action so many times we think we need to be thinking okay I gotta type on my computer in order for us to go and type on our computer that is not true but the trouble is that we're always yammering on that we think that the yammering actually relates to what we're doing and then it's different if it's something like driving where we can drive Yammer on in our heads and then not actually know how we got home and we think that's cool for some reason but there is also state where one can be driving paying attention to what's going on because it's actually quite beautiful and interesting out there and not be thinking anything and there's no thought required to drive whether you're thinking about something else and driving through habit or actually driving being embodied and driving your car which is equivalent to practicing the power of now which Eckart Tolle talks about he talks about when you're washing your hands pay attention to the sensation be aware and present and not thinking about something else when you're washing your hands and that's again just shutting down the me the prefrontal cortex that's practicing shutting that down and in that way I feel like we could be in more flow in daily life just by using the brain less in terms of this linear yammering thinking and the benefit is shutting that off they say well it uses less of the brain and that's the thing he talked about oh it's so interesting that we use yet less of our brain yet where we have more capacity we're more creative when we're in that state of flow we're not really thinking or just in the moment and where if we're thinking it's regarding to our creativity well that's the thing when we shut off this inner critic and everything it allows I feel more energy to be channeled through so I don't think of the brain necessarily as you know the more patterns going on the more it's doing this is just noise this is just actually interference so the brain is a big channel and is trying to channel energy which is the equivalent of flow and the brain is going strong while it's all getting scattered and all this creative energy is just getting you know you might have a creative energetic thing come through a little bit but then it's like well yesterday this and tomorrow that and blah blah blah and it's just going on and on and on and it's actually blocking the Clear Channel so I don't necessarily think what I don't really agree with what they're saying and maybe they're saying the same thing when they're saying that the brain is doing less and you can do more this yammering on is just habit it's just words it's just actually interfering with the clear flow of the channel that we are that would come through if we weren't thinking again how they say we think 60,000 thoughts a day mostly the same as yesterday if we weren't doing that then something new would be coming through we just assume we have to be doing that but it's just a habit and then like Jamie wheeler said her wheel said if he said I don't always said I lost my thought there so there's something there's something definitely to do with the autism thing and again the evolutionary movement to shut down the prefrontal cortex and it seems that if we don't stop giving it to our children and forcing it then children will be born where we just can't even program them to the same extent and one day they'll be a lot of them that are adults and they're going to have something to say they might not have the same vocabulary but they have a very rich experience and subjectivity and they perceive the world in a different way they see it with different eyes because they don't see it through all these words that we see it through and they're going to be telling us something different they might even revolt against us because they've already revolted against words and what are we were just a bunch of words we think we're a bunch of words because we think so part of the embodied mania thing is transforming mental health challenges into human potential so the human potential movement is also interesting and I feel that it can mental health crisis can be used as a transformative force it is a transformative force and it's not being it's not being supported to be a transformative force it's it's ending up in places it's not supposed to go you know it could be a different world if people are seen as visionaries with with potential who see possibilities who can be invited to share some of those in a way where they're sharing and then perhaps compensated in some way for the value that they're delivering so I really feel like it can move towards human potential and another term i came across recently well i think i already mentioned it is morphogenetic and i don't think that's the word that Steven and Jamie talked about but I wanted to in the spirit of real anguishing because a lot of this revision is actually real anguishing especially since most people see the world through the language they use and in a way the visions need to be translated into language and I'm not talking visions like oh whatever just what we see what we feel what we experience right now the language is one of pathology and it would be interesting to create more context and more language used to describe these things so then people can see and experience them differently and maybe choose a different paradigm and it doesn't have to be an exclusion to mental illness or diagnosis but there's big importance in making meaning out of the experience whether it's an illness or not especially because it's an illness may be so the term morphogenetic I think it could be more fo mimetic I'm genetic sounds like jeans I don't know if that's supposed to be genetic as in like generate i'm not sure where that term comes from well I know Rupert Sheldrake was the one to coin it and I do like the idea of the morphogenetic field but I feel it could also be somewhat a morpho-memetic field if there's all these memes and the memes are competing for brains base in all these different brains and human beings there is a more from mimetic field and it seems that there's a certain number of memes that are infecting our brains that I think are very detrimental so I'd like to invite conversation to change and contribute to the morpho-memetic field and I think that mania is an attempt to change the morph-o-matic filled with the spontaneous social behaviors and it's interesting because in mania when I experience spontaneous social behaviors a lot of people respond in kind consciously or subconsciously so it does create that little mark on their brains and their experience in their own holographic structure it re patterns that I feel like mania is the energy of a pattern that reap a turns reality through these spontaneous social behaviors and you know it keeps popping up in different places and people often act very similar in those energetic state so that says something that there's got to be some kind of reason our force or purpose around it and also maybe one day with all these people popping up and then people responding in kind to a certain level not the same energy eventually one day people will respond more and more and that will get passed on and passed on and it will change the fabric of reality until one day people have pop-up into mania are probably just normal that's just how most people are most the time happy playful going back to being childlike you think of being childlike and then you think of the biblical references be as a child or something I don't know I don't know much about the Bible though when I'm in those altered states I feel I know a lot about that stuff you so again with mania and the energy coming up through the person it's like a person gets charged like a capacitor and then they're going around and discharging little bits as they interact with different people and that energy gets spread out and dissipated over time so it's like being a capacitor actually now that I think about it if a person practices some of those manic traits that they experience in those high energy states and then they practice them in daily life when that energy comes again the capacitor will stay charged longer because it'll actually be embedded in the neurobiology of the person and maybe they'll get dissipated less and then a person will be less affected by this dissipating charge and go down slower or go down less it won't be such an extreme and such a fast dissipation of the energy so I feel that that could build up capacitance and so that's another important thing and not only that that makes sense too if a person is embodying their mania and daily life and the energy comes it won't really be such a big difference because they'll already be working towards being like that state that brain state as brain traits so it won't be that different so it won't be such like an up and down and also the energy might be able to stay or if the energy doesn't come again like that to an extreme as the person practices and practices and practices it gives the chance for the energy to come in and sort of fill that practice space so a person is able to go to a higher energy level in daily life by practicing even though maybe that energy never comes back to a certain extreme though it may but then again it just won't feel like such an extreme because it was practice so it could even be that mania or those states of consciousness are inviting us to pull up because hey this energy is coming so we better be able to embody it or it's going to make us nuts because if it is too much of a change it is like whoa I was this and now I'm in the depths of despair and that's really difficult to go from one extreme to the other because then the other extreme feels that much worse because we were just at the high extreme so not only does it feel like this is the worst thing ever it feels like what just happened to how great it was just a few days ago so it's uh there's a lot to that it's really interesting and that's why I feel like embodying mania or you could think finding your flow if you want to take those other terms maybe it's as simple as finding how one flows instead of thinking well I got to practice these traits just instead of thinking in terms of traits think in terms of the flow or the activities so say I get into flow when I'm reading and writing and thinking or watching YouTube videos do that more and then I'm in that I'm probably going to be practicing those traits and part of me making these videos for myself is like practicing the traits because part of me wants to be able to have a conversation about this stuff instead of waiting till I find somebody to have a conversation but just having a conversation with myself and what I'm finding and I guess it's true when I write sometimes too so if I have a thought or an idea and I put it down and writing then something else comes to me and I write it down and then build on that it's not like I had the entire thing before i started and i'm finding the same thing with making these videos for myself some of the stuff i started talking about it I think of another thought idea it comes to me and I'm not saying that these are they like true or anything but there are ways to think of it differently or see it differently in a way it's not really ways to think about it differently because I don't know it's not really something you think about the things i'm talking about that you kind of see it or you don't see it if you don't see it doesn't matter and if you've never been in these extreme states if you're a steady state person you're mine you probably won't see it but maybe well i shouldn't necessarily i shouldn't say shouldn't either hella Fords are getting the best of me right now so so I feel like perhaps maybe I feel like one day maybe when a person is able to practice embodying mania to a certain extent and kind of be in that zone that it'll be a self-fulfilling state where one is just in sort of a flow state that's not as Extreme as the high ecstasy of mania for the most part but it's like very much grounded and and in the state of love and joy and all those grounded balanced states of being you know I guess maybe some of it is just creating a balanced state between being active and having those spontaneous social behaviors and maybe part of it is just to pass along some of those spontaneous social behaviors and doesn't require that everybody go into mania and that's one of my things too is by practicing the traits maybe they'll be mirrored by other people so manic traits could be passed on to other people through gestures so we think of so much of sharing information of like thinking and idea thinking and words and thoughts but information is also action and gesture and I was doing some research on on that and how something like a kind act if somebody sees it they'll be way more likely to be kind to someone else in the next like two hours I don't know two to four hours or something so that's what i mean by gesture so manic traits say it was super generous and kind and friendly well maybe I can't be like that to the same extreme every moment of every day but I could be that two percent more and then from that two percent more build on to two percent more and two percent more until maybe I'm like fifty percent like that and being fifty percent more like that in daily reality passes on in gestures and in things people see throughout the day that changed their behavior that isn't about hey you need to change this and I guess that's part of that's part of the self-help is like you should do this and you should do that and you should change this which is a bunch of words dalian what to do well you got to put in your prefrontal cortex and practice and blah de blah so I think that's a great thing about the mania is that a person it's not words it's like I was this embodied for a short period of time in mania now how can I practice that in movement in action and gesture in the things that I say on a daily basis to again operate at that eleven that Jamie wheel said operate 11 and see what's present versus using the level of thought the self-help so the daily action again goes with embodying ones mania so harvesting the mania and the traits to embody and daily life and say being fifty percent manic but not in the state not unbalanced but manic in terms of the traits and the way one was and that's usually what feels the best anyway is how nice it was to be the way that we were in that state it feels great in the state but if we can be that way that we were we're probably going to feel pretty darn good on a daily basis so moving towards that and then yeah I'm seeing that changing through just daily action and I did research like random acts of kindness and things and people in mania are very randomly kind and these are the spontaneous social behaviors that Buckminster fuller I feel was talking about and the things that need to be solved beyond the level of thought and thought is the level that created problems seeing beyond problems and seeing that life's not all about problems when we're in mania life's not about problems it's about being playful being loving being caring and I'm generalizing here yes some people in those states get rather angry and in my feeling it's often times due to injustice and not necessarily personal injustice but things that are just not okay and I think I've talked about that a bit before so that's also why I'm making videos I just wanted to translate some of what I would have thought and explored or pondered into video and like I said we're sort of visionaries we can sort of see things we can see feelings we can see patterns and you can see like images or we can see how certain things extrapolate back into the past and maybe where it came from and was created and we can see extrapolations into the future so in that way we can kind of foresee the future doesn't mean that's the way it's going to happen but we can kind of see the pattern beyond the actual thing that's happening now and and extrapolate it and associate it and you can see ah like it can be scary sometimes so it's not really it's not really it's not really like anything to unbelievable that people can consents these things it's it's pattern recognition and I feel well they talked about in the flow state how we can recognize patterns more and that's part of being in flow it again goes with mania and altered states of consciousness we can recognize patterns and in that way we see patterns we see visions we see images and then we sense what that means and then that whole meaning gets translated from that image and from that feeling and from the impression into sound into words and the words that come from that that come from the pattern recognition they have a different intensity they have a different weight then the recombined associations from one's personal memory banks which are just mainly conditioning they don't have a very large value so there's a difference between thought that's going on the prefrontal cortex and repetitive and the thought that comes from insight which is the seeing of the pattern of the whole of whatever it is that one is seeing and that's part of the flow state too and that's how a person can have sort of like real intuition and felt senses of things it's just sort of the brain calculating beyond the linear thought pattern which is just very linear logical reason we think that that is where it's at but it's really where it was it's old it's not seeing anything new and and that's why people can really read body language and really read into things when they have altered states of consciousness is because they can read the patterns of the body and the facial expression and everything and ones energy and that's why a lot of people that are in these mental health crises don't respond well to so many of the people that are employed to help because those helpers many of them aren't there for the right reasons many of them are and then there's lots that are there with good intentions in their heart but their energy is not in the right place or the way they're approaching people or receiving people that need help people really need to be listened to but there's not really time for that so that's why diagnosis is a convenient way to not listen to people it's like writing them off so yeah meaning it could be some kind of high performance and it's like stepping into the high-performance vehicle version of yourself like yesterday I was the Toyota Corolla and now i am a I don't know trying to think of a high-performance car

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