Your Cells are Conscious: The Light-Based OS
The speaker discusses how complex information can be transmitted through light to conscious cells, and describes how their book on altered states meditation became a bestseller. They explain that the body operates on a partially light-based system that can be communicated with below the level of conscious awareness.
Summary
The speaker explores the concept of transmitting complex information through light directly to cells, which they claim are conscious entities. They mention their recent book 'Heavily Meditated,' an altered states meditation guide that unexpectedly became the country's best-selling philosophy book. The discussion includes a significant endorsement from Victor Chan, described as the Dalai Lama's best friend and co-author, who found the speaker's theory about the ego originating from mitochondria and bacterial behaviors to be compelling. Chan reportedly said this theory helps explain much of what the Dalai Lama has taught over the past 50 years. The speaker concludes by describing the existence of a bodily operating system that is partially light-based and operates below conscious awareness, allowing for communication with the body and ego through pre-conscious mechanisms.
Key Insights
- The speaker claims that individual cells possess direct consciousness and can receive complex information transmitted through light
- The author's meditation book 'Heavily Meditated' unexpectedly became the best-selling philosophy book in the country despite being focused on altered states
- Victor Chan, the Dalai Lama's close associate, endorsed the speaker's theory that the ego originates from mitochondria and bacterial behaviors
- The speaker argues that this mitochondrial ego theory provides new clarity to 50 years of the Dalai Lama's teachings
- The body operates on a partially light-based system that functions at a pre-conscious level, allowing communication with the body and ego below conscious awareness
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Transcript
It's how do we put more complex information into the light so that it gets into our cells? And our cells are conscious. They're directly conscious. In fact, my most recent book, Heavily Meditated, became the best-selling philosophy book in the country. Wow. It's an altered states meditation book. But I wasn't expecting that. But the Dalai Lama's best friend and co-author, Victor Chan, just said, Dave, I've heard this theory about the ego and it coming from mitochondria and bacterial behaviors. It makes all the stuff the Dalai Lama's been saying for the last 50 years make more sense. Because there is an operating system in the body. Yep. And it is partially light-based. And it's possible to communicate…
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