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[Inaudible] Good morning.

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Afternoon and evening for everybody who is online today with me.

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Thank you for joining me. For those of you who don't know me,

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I'm Dr. John Demartini and I'm going to share

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the amazing power of the method that I've developed over the years.

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I'm going to start off by saying that when I was 18 years old and I

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was learning how to read, because I had learning problems as a child,

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my uncle sent me a giant couple crates of books to

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my home. And two of the books that were sent,

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one was by the Nobel prize winner, Paul Dirac,

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and it was on particle physics.

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He was the one who founded the idea of particles and antiparticles being

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balanced initially in the universe.

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And then there was also one by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz or Leibniz, who

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wrote a book called the Discourse on Metaphysics.

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And when I read the Discourse on Metaphysics, he said

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first paragraph, that there was a perfection in the universe,

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a magnificence in the universe that few people ever get to know,

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but those that do their lives are changed and transformed forever,

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for the rest of their life. When I read that,

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somehow it brought a tear to my eye.

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I'm sure you've had a moment when you've read something or heard something or

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viewed something that brought a tear of inspiration to you.

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I couldn't quite put my finger on or grasp what it was,

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but I just knew that I knew that there was something there that I wanted to go

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and explore. And I've used since I was 18,

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that tear of inspiration as a guidance to kind of navigate through

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life of what I want to study and learn and what I was going to do,

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because it gave me an insight about when I'm authentic. When I'm authentic,

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I get that tear of inspiration as a confirmation.

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And when I'm pursuing something that's clear and I'm trying to put a puzzle of

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life together, that's a very powerful, useful tool.

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After reading that, I went on a pursuit to try to find this quote "perfection",

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this divine perfection as he called it,

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he was a mathematician and philosopher and theologian.

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When I read Paul Dirac's book on particle physics,

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and I saw that there's for every particle, there was an anti particle,

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and that if you join them together, a particle and anti particle,

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a positron and electron, or any particle and anti particle,

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you birth light. And in my naivety at the time, I thought, wow,

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if particle and anti particle, complementary opposites

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because one's a thesis, one's an antithesis,

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if they could be synthesized synchronously and birth light,

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I wonder what would happen if I was to put the positive and negative experiences

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of our life and emotions in our life, happy, sad, kind, cruel,

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all pairs of opposites, if they were to be synthesized synchronously,

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could I birth enlightenment?

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And could I discover the hidden order in the apparent chaos?

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I went on a pursuit and I started studying physics and

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chemistry and mathematics and psychology and brain research.

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And it took me to every ology that you could study.

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And I found common threads to these different disciplines.

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Will Durant said that there was a dialectic sitting in every field.

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And I found that to be true.

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A dialectic means a thesis and antithesis synthesis,

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opinions and opposite opinions joined together to make more objective truth.

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I started to pursue psychology, brain research, and

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as I went along,

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I started to realize that every time we perceive something and judge something

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as positive or negative, they were always birthed out of contrast.

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Wundt, W U N D T who was a psychologist at the time, way back, William

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James, over 100 and something years, 125 years ago,

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said that there was a study of psychology that led to the realization that there

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was always opposition and synchronicities of opposites,

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he called it the law of contrast.

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And Heraclitus in the fifth century

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BC mentioned the same thing and many people,

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many philosophers through the ages mentioned this. And this stuck in my mind,

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because it seemed to show up in chemistry, in physics,

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in math and everything else I found,

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trying to balance the equation in mathematics, balance

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balance the nuclear physics, balance everything,

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I thought somehow there's an inherent objective balancing

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mechanism going on in the brain. The research was pointing to it. Contrast with

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sensory systems.

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I realized that when I was thrown off from being centered in life,

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and I was infatuated with something,

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I was conscious of the upsides and unconscious of the downsides.

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And when I was resentful to something, I was conscious of the downsides,

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unconscious of the upsides. But when I saw both sides simultaneously,

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I was neither up nor down, I was centered.

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And I was neither shamed when I was infatuated with others or proud when I

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was resenting others, I was authentic. And I thought, okay,

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this is the first principle that I want to incorporate into what I'm going to

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call the Demartini Method. Originally, it was called the Retro Genesis Process,

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later it was called the Collapse Process based on quantum physics and collapsing

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the wave function by Schrödinger. Then it was called the collapse,

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I guess they call it the Demartini Collapse Process.

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Eventually I realized that that was confusing people,

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and I just turned it to The Demartini Method,

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everybody just started calling it that anyway.

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And so I started to put two principles together.

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I realized in myself that whenever I was judging somebody and

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criticizing somebody, looking down on somebody, if I was really honest,

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I found out that the thing I was judging them for was something I was actually

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feeling ashamed about.

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And I was judging and pointing my finger out at them and actually three of them

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were pointing back at me. You know, it's the old problem that,

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pluck the mote out of your own eye before you pluck it out of somebody else's

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and look inside yourself before you look at others that way.

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And I decided to go to the dictionary, the Oxford dictionary,

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which is the biggest dictionary I could find at the time,

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the smallest little prints, thinnest little paper,

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most comprehensive dictionary.

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And I went through every human behavioral trait that I could find

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that a human being could display.

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And I circled each behavior as I went down the page,

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this is a long project here.

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And as I came across the word that described a trait that I would

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consider a human behavior, some action or inaction or trait or behavior,

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I then thought of who is it that I know that displays that trait to the most

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extreme example. And I put their initials out there.

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And then I thought to myself, kind of where, and when do I display that?

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And I looked inside my life and really reflected cause reflective awareness,

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which is self-inspection,

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introspection is one of the greatest awareness we have,

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it's what distinguishes us from the animals in a sense,

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there is a non-reflective consciousness and,

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non reflective consciousness is observant of the world around you,

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like an animal can see the environment,

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but he can't see itself look at the environment,

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but self-reflective awareness is being able to look at yourself in the

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environment, looking at the environment.

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And I looked at myself and I realized that the individuals that I had imagined

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being the most extreme example, I looked for where and when I displayed that,

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and it was not hard to see, I,

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I realized that I actually did and did display those same behaviors.

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And I went through, believe it or not 4,628 traits.

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And I discovered I had them all. I was nice at times. I was mean at times,

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I was kind at times, I was cruel at times, I was considerate, inconsiderate,

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thoughtful, thoughtless, peaceful, wrathful, nice, mean, kind, cruel,

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considerate, inconsiderate. I was honest, dishonest.

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I was putting on with pride and arrogance and then shame and humbleness.

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And I went through and I found out that I did every one of them at different

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moments in my life, if I was really honest and I didn't want to be honest,

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I wanted to put on the proud face and pretend like I had gotten rid of some,

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I actually was bought into at that early stage, that self-improvement,

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that I was going to get rid of half of myself and get only one sidedness.

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It wasn't until age 30 that I finally realized that was futile.

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I realized that everything that I thought I'd gotten rid of,

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I realized I still surfaced and I was repressing it, and then it would explode.

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When I finally realized, I realized it's better to just own the traits.

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It's interesting how we want to be loved for who we are,

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and yet we're trying to get rid of half of ourselves and we want to love other

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people, but we want to get rid of half of them.

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And we want to love the world and want to get rid of half of it.

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And that's just absolute idiocy when you think about it,

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you're not going to do it. And I found out that I never got rid of a trait.

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I never really gained a trait cause I traced those traits all the way back to my

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childhood and I continued to have them.

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And I realized that these biological traits,

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these behaviors were absolutely essential and there was a biologic reason for

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them. I realized that I needed kind and cruel at different signs because when my

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values, my hierarchy of values were supported, I was nice, a pussycat.

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When my values were challenged, I was cruel.

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And I needed both of those because life has both support and challenge.

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Maximum growth and development occurs at the border of support and challenge.

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Ordering and chaos,

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living at the edge of chaos is one of the principles in evolutionary biology.

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When I finally realized that I put together the very

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first phase of the Demartini Method.

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That was where you make a list of every trait action or inaction that

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you can admire or despise about somebody.

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And you make sure that that list is balanced,

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because our first assumption is that there's way more negatives than positives,

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or way more positives than negatives or whatever, resentful, or infatuated,

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but this is holding you accountable.

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Accountable is able to bring a balance sheet to your mind and being accountable

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to see that balance.

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So I made myself look at where the individual that I'm

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disliking for instance,

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and I'd rattled off all the negatives about them that I dislike,

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I gotta go find as many positives of that. And when I looked, I found them,

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I had just chosen not to look.

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I had a subjective bias as a survival mechanism to keep me from looking for the

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both sides.

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And I wanted to label the person and archetype them instead of embrace them

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as one and had all the traits in life.

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And when I went and made myself accountable to write

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the negatives that make sure that those numbers were balanced,

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and if I saw way more negatives, I got to go look deeper, I found them,

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I found that they were both sides.

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And then I found out that not only do I have them,

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but so do the people around me.

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And then I went and I looked at where and when I displayed and demonstrated

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those behaviors. Now, initially it was kind of cursory.

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I just looked at where did I do it and I wasn't really precise. And I just know,

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yeah, I've done it. But I, I now know,

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go to exactly where it was and when it was.

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I now ask the individual in the Demartini Method,

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go to a moment where and when you perceive this individual, pardon me, yourself,

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display or demonstrate the same or similar behavioral trait, action,

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inaction that you despise, or like admire most.

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And go in there and identify where it is, when it is,

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to who it is and who's perceiving you do that.

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And that gets an episodic moment out of your brain and locks in a neuro

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associative complex, neurologically, which is essential to transform the brain.

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And I made myself accountable to find what I saw in other people.

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And the reason why I resented them is because it was reminding me of something I

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had done in the past that I felt guilty about.

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And I didn't want to deal with that and I didn't like being around them because

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they reminded me of me that I was judging.

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And sometimes I was too proud to admit what I saw in them,

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inside me and I wanted to avoid them and label them and

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bias my perception of them instead of look at the balance of them and see them

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as an individual, I'd put a persona,

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mask on them about who they are instead of embrace them as a whole human being.

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And when I was admiring somebody,

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I was too humble to admit what I saw in them was inside me, but I had it.

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And that was very powerful cause then I realized that whatever I admired in

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them, in any human being, a great hero or a great villain,

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that I'm too proud to admit, by God, I've got all that in me.

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At the level of my soul, nothing's missing in me, cause I'm not judging.

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The soul is a state of unconditional love. At the level of our senses,

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things appear to be missing because we're too proud or too humble to admit what

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we see in others inside ourselves, and those disowned parts,

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those too proud or too humbled personas that we have and the projected

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personas we project onto people are not really truths.

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They're just our biases and those biases weigh us down gravitationally,

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keeps us in bondage.

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Because anything we infatuate and resent occupy space and time in our mind and

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run us, irrespective of time or space, we could be run by our emotions 20, 30,

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40 years later, cause we never resolved them, never balanced them.

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And I realized that as long as I'm infatuated,

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cause I've had infatuation I couldn't sleep at night,

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it was preoccupying my mind. Being resentful, where I

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preoccupying my mind.

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Only when I centered myself and brought myself into perfect balance,

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synchronously,

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that I was able to rest and actually get centered and I required less sleep when

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I found that, mastered that.

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So I first made a list of all the specific trait, actions,

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inactions that this individual displayed or demonstrated that I admired or

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despised most.

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Then I looked at where and when did I display and demonstrate the specific

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trait, action,

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inaction in my own life and I'd level the playing field and realize I was no

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longer too proud or too humble to admit what I see in them inside me.

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And that was with the first level of reflective awareness. And then I realized,

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that as I honored myself,

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how are you going to be loved for who you are if you keep exaggerating and

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minimizing yourself and you don't even allow yourself to be yourself.

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I found when I was myself, I was grateful. I was inspired. I was loving.

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I was present. I was certain, I had inspiration,

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and those were confirmations of being authentic.

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But as long as I was looking down on somebody or looking up at somebody,

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I wasn't being me. So that was the first two steps of the Demartini Method.

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Then I realized that the trait, action,

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inaction that I initially admired or despised that I thought had

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upsides without downsides or downsides without upsides,

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where I split my consciousness into conscious and unconscious halves,

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the thing that I thought was up, had downsides and the

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had upsides. I realized, and I watched that in my clients,

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if somebody would come to me and say, 'Well,

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my father was really cruel to me and mean to me.' And then I found out that they

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became entrepreneurs, capable of being independent, resilient,

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and adaptable and driven. And I found out the other person said, 'Well,

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my mother was very nice to me,

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never cruel to me.' And then I realized that you became dependent and then you

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expected everybody to be like your mother.

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And then you became juvenile and you couldn't even ask questions to yourself,

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you had to offload the responsibilities onto mommy and you never grew up,

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and I've seen men stay with their mommies when they're 50 years old.

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And I realized that nice is actually mean and the mean has actual nice.

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And I realized that those were illusions that people were having.

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And then I also realized the things that we think are terrible a day, a week,

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a month, a year or five years later,

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we realized that there's some terrific hidden in that, and we look back and go,

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thank you, that, I didn't see it. But I,

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I now have the wisdom of the ages because of the aging process, but I can,

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if I do the Demartini Method, have the wisdom of the ages without it,

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don't have to wait 20 years to find out that the thing is a blessing.

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Find the blessing by looking. The quality of your life is based on

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the questions you ask,

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the Demartini Method is a series of questions that

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make you aware of the unconscious part.

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So your unconscious is always trying to reveal to you the side you're ignoring,

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your intuition is trying to do that.

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So if you're infatuated with somebody your intuition is trying to point out the

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downsides, the part you're unconscious of.

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And when you're resentful to somebody it's trying to find out the meaning,

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the upsides, so you're fully conscious and the part you're unconscious of.

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And so I realized that when I look carefully and ask questions,

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so go to a moment where and when you perceive this individual displaying or

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demonstrating a specific trait, action, inaction that you admire or despise,

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and what's the downsides of the thing they admire and what's the upsides of

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that, and made you accountable, hold yourself accountable to see both sides.

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The moment you do, they don't run you.

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Instead of being extrinsically driven as a victim of history,

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you now become a master of destiny and realize you have control over your

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perceptions, decisions, and actions.

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And that's very profound when you finally be accountable and be objective.

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Objective means neutral in that respect and balanced and extracting meaning out

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of the thing is finding the mean, the balance between the polarities.

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And so your life has meaning every time you do that.

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So I realized that this thing that I thought was terrible in them,

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that I resented, wasn't.

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The thing that I thought was so terrific that I was admiring, wasn't.

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It was just an incomplete awareness.

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And when I actually realized that nobody's worth putting in pits,

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nobody's worth putting on pedestals,

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but everybody's worth putting in hearts and have reflective awareness where I'm

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not too proud or too humble to admit what I see, and I see both sides of it,

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and I'm balancing the equation.

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In the first phase of the method I'm balancing the equation between self and

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other, the second I'm balancing the idea of positive and negative,

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in self and other.

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And then I'm balancing out the polarities of charged polarity.

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It's called charged parity law in conservation law in physics.

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And then I realized, you know, instead of me just judging them,

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the real truth is I,

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I watched the situation of my resentment to somebody one time,

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then I looked inside myself where I'd done it.

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And once I found the benefits where I had done it to whoever I had done the same

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behavior to, I found myself not resentful to the individual. I realized that,

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gosh, my resentment to myself,

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my shame is actually causing me to resent somebody else that's reminding me of

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it. And I want to avoid them.

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And I realized that our impulses for pleasure and our

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amygdala is skewing our reality and not allowing us to appreciate what's

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actually there. And there's something magnificent there,

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there's a hidden order there,

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there's a love there that Leibniz was trying to say.

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So I needed Paul Dirac's particle and anti particle physics and mathematics to

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help put this model together. But I needed Leibniz to guide the path,

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the dharmic path as the Buddha says, towards something that had deep meaning.

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As Victor Frankel says in the concentration camps he found meaning,

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when every body else was dying, he survived.

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He thrived instead of just survival.

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Then I started to go in there and identify wherever I had done the behavior,

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look back of where and when I did it and looked how it served or disserved,

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if I was infatuated with myself and proud, I looked at what was the downside.

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So I calmed down my pride because if I don't calm myself down and don't have

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self-governance on my own pride, I attract physiological,

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psychological sociological or theological events to humble me,

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pride before the fall.

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And if I don't do the opposite when I'm shamed and look at the upsides of it,

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I get again, physiological, psychological things lift me up.

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Nature's always trying to equilibrate,

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Saint Augustin mentioned that in his theology,

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the will of God is equilibrium when the will of man matches the will of God or

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will of man and woman, humans, match the will of God, is graced,

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his life is graced, grateful. So I started going there and look at where,

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and when I did it and helping my clients do that.

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And then I realized that they were carrying around shame and guilt and pride,

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and those are all personas. They're not real.

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They're exaggerations or minimizations of who we are.

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And the magnificence who we are as a total is far greater than any

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fantasies or nightmares we'll put on ourselves.

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So as I started to neutralize it,

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I noticed that as I knocked out all my shames of all my guilts that I was

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resenting in other people reminding me of,

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I noticed my self worth went up and I was willing to hold onto money,

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hold on to, have fair exchange and not give away stuff and I also noticed,

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I was now willing to actually start having money work for me instead of me

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always working for it and buying things to feel better about myself.

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So that was a major breakthrough when I finally realized that self-governance is

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what my executive center in the brain is trying to do,

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is trying to mitigate the impulses and instincts of the subjective biases and is

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trying to wake me up to the magnificence and the hidden order in my life.

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Because all these things that I'm doing and they're doing,

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no matter what I've done, or no matter what they've done, we're worthy of love,

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and that's very powerful when you finally get that.

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That's what the Demartini Method's about,

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to help you realize there's something magnificent in your life and you don't

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need fixing. You don't need self-improvement. You don't need it.

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You just need to wake up because you only think you make a mistake when you

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compare your actions to somebody outside that you've given power to,

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whose values that you've injected.

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And you only think other people make mistake when you

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them and expected them to live in your values, they can't live in your values,

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they live in their own. You can't live in other people's values,

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you live in your own. Then I realized another thing,

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I realized over time, that I heard a lot of people label people.

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My mother was always mean, never nice.

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And I noticed cancer patients had black and white,

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all or none labels and language. I noticed that all the way back when I was 24,

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when I was working as the president of the Cancer Prevention Control Association

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in Houston, and I was going, wow,

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the most primitive physiology,

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the most extremophilic state of brain and cellular physiology,

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is an absolute extremes. And so I thought, well, that's a subjective bias.

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When an animal is out in the wild it's camouflaging itself from others,

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and it's being camouflaged by its prey and predator. And in order to survive,

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it has to have false positives, exaggerate it in order to get the adrenaline up,

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strong enough to chase the prey and to avoid the predator.

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So I realized that whenever I hear people say all or nones,

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I know they're under high survival mode.

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And they're really literally polarizing their view to all the way to infinity

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over one and one over infinity, all or none. And I realized that's not,

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that's not,

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there's no phenomenological world that you can existentially touch that's

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infinity. So when I hear that, I knew that's a lie.

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So I started to ask the question, where is the other side?

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Because if somebody is not always nice, I've gone up to people and said,

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'Would you consider yourself always nice never mean, always kind never cruel,

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always positive never negative, always peaceful, never wrathful?' And they go,

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'No.' They can't have certainty about that, cause it's bullshit. And I say,

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'You're always mean, never nice. Always cruel, never kind, always wrathful,

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never peaceful?' 'No.' 'If I said to you sometimes you're nice,

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sometimes you're mean, sometimes you're kind, sometimes you're cruel,

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sometimes you're positive, sometimes negative, sometimes you're peaceful,

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sometimes wrathful, would you believe me?' And they go, 'Yeah.' I say, well,

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you only have certainty about yourself when you realize the two sides,

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the balance of those, objectively, not subjective biases that are survival,

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but objective thrivals.

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So I basically went in there and I realized and started going and asking the

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question,

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go to a moment where and when you perceive this individual displaying or

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demonstrating the specific trait, action,

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inaction that you admired or despise most. Okay there.

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Now who are they demonstrating it to? Okay to you,

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they're cruel to you or you know, critical of you or something. Okay.

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Now go to a moment where and when you perceived the same individual displaying

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or demonstrating the exact opposite behavior to you, praising you.

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And if they're critical about the way you're managing money,

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where are they praising you about managing money?

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I made people accountable to look at examples in their

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and pretend it didn't exist and made them accountable to look,

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and they discovered that the individual that they had labeled as always

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something, always positive, always negative or whatever, weren't.

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There were times when they were supportive and times when they were challenging,

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and times when they were kind and times when they were cruel,

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when you did things that supported their values, they were kind,

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when you did things that challenged their values they were cruel.

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And I'm that way, and you're that way, and we are that way as a human being.

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We have a set of values, if we get supported, we can be pussycats.

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If we get challenged strong enough, we can be tigers.

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We are not one sided individuals. We're not personas, masks,

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facades. We're a whole being. And I want to be loved for a whole being.

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I don't want to be loved for only one side because I can't sustain it,

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so I'm going to be sitting in bipolar states.

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And bipolar condition's a byproduct of monopolar addiction,

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the addiction to one sidedness and our society and all your life,

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your grandmother probably said, be nice, don't be mean, be kind, don't be cruel,

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and then she'd beat the hell out of grandpa and was a hypocritic. So you're,

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you're told one thing that people live another,

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and I'm not interested in these moral hypocrisies,

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I'm interested in human behavior and how to master your freaking life.

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And I'm not interested in all that. I found that as Dirac said,

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back when I was 18, he says, it's not that we don't know so much.

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It's we know so much that it isn't so. We're taught the opium of the masses,

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the fantasies that make us easily controlled and governed into a

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self depreciative state, striving for an unattainable goal. The Buddha says,

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the desire for that which is unobtainable and the desire to avoid that which is

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unavoidable is a source of human suffering.

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And so we've been told that all our life,

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but I'm not interested in the fantasies of traditions and conventions.

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I'm interested in how human behavior works.

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I spent 47 freaking years working on that. And I'm absolutely certain,

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you're an objective being with both sides. And it's a waste of time. And I mean,

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a freaking waste of time to try to get rid of half of yourself. And I,

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and I have to pound that into people's head in my Breakthrough Experience

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because people are addicted to fantasies and then they make nightmares out of

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their life trying to be something they can't,

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expecting others to be something they can't, expecting others to be one sided,

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not going to happen.

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When you finally embrace both sides and see that the individual's got both sides

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and balance the equation, the labels go away.

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And then you understand the individual and you want to know them about their

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values, because if you know what their values are,

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you can know what to expect from people.

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Otherwise you're going to feel betrayed, and they don't betray you,

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you do with unrealistic expectations of one sidedness,

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expecting them to live in your values, not their own, expecting to be one,

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one sided creatures, which isn't going to happen.

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Not in a world that requires support and challenge for maximum growth,

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not going to occur. Then I realized something 20 years ago,

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something pretty profound.

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One of the most profound realizations of my life when I was studying cell

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physiology, I started studying redox reactions.

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And I noticed that for every oxidation,

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which is a loss of electrons to some atom molecule or ion there's a gain

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of an electron somewhere else, which is a reduction. And one is an oxidation.

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One's a reduction. And redoxes occur simultaneous,

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they're entangled like particle and antiparticles,

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and a light bulb went onto me.

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And I realized that this is oxidative phosphorylation is one of the mechanisms

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of energy in the body and life itself depends on it.

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An excited atom has to go back to a ground state to give us energy.

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And I realized that's what photons in the world,

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that's what the sun is doing for us,

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for cyanobacteria and up the food chain all the way to the alpha predator.

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And I realized that wow,

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I latched onto an insight and I realized,

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and I started for the next couple of years,

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I went on a research on myself again,

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and I looked and all of a sudden two things had popped;

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something I wrote when I was 24 in my 'Illusional Basis of Man's Health and

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Disease' text on how perceptions are dealing with contrast,

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Wundt's idea in psychology that I read at 22, 23,

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and all of a sudden this light bulb just went on. I'm like, Oh,

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I can't believe I missed this.

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And I started to realize something that in Neuron Magazine in 2016,

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another discoverer found out about it.

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This is 16 years later after I'd found it,

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found out that there's memories and anti memories and that there's electronic

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and molecular chemical balancing going on in the brain,

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even though the pharmaceutical industries have sold you a bill of goods and it's

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a biochemical imbalance, the freaking truth is that's not fact.

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And it's not a causal relationship to depression in psychiatry like they want to

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sell you. You have perceptions, you can change your chemistry in seconds,

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in billisecond,

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you can change your chemistry by changing your perceptions and attitudes of

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mind. This is what William James was trying to say. And Wundt.

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So I basically discovered something. I realized that if I go to a moment where,

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and when I perceive an individual displaying or

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trait action, inaction, some specific traits that I despise or admire,

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and I get where it is, when it is,

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and I get really present with it because I realized that the conscious and

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unconscious mind splits at the moment of perception.

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And if I get really present in that moment,

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at that exact moment and find out where it was, when it was,

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that I perceived it, and what is the content of my perception?

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What am I judging? And what's the context, what's it about?

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So they may be criticizing me about my management of money,

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how I spend money or manage money. And in that moment,

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if I look carefully at what they're doing,

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and I look for the reflective opposite, the complimentary opposite,

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the exact opposite behavior at that moment, lo and behold,

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my mind has the answer to who is doing the opposite to me,

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it was a mind blowing realization.

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I call it the Great Discovery because it's the greatest discovery ever made in

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psychology. And I realized that it's either in reality or virtual reality,

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it's one or many, male and female, closer or distant, virtual or real.

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And if it's done to you, it's somebody other than you.

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If it's done to somebody other, it could be you.

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That means that whatever's going on in your life, there's a pair of opposites.

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So if somebody is criticizing you, there's somebody praising you,

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but you're unaware of it. When you're conscious of the criticism,

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you're hurt and you feel angry. If you're conscious of the praise,

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you're pleased and you feel pleased. But if you see both of them together side,

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you realize that you're actually being given a moment of love.

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Love is a synthesis and synchronicity of complementary opposites.

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When you realize that that's all that goes on, 24 hours a day.

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We have what is called a stream of consciousness as William James says,

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and moment by moment, sliver by sliver, every billionth of a second or whatever,

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a trillionth of a second, there's a sliver of conscious freezing you might say,

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and we snapshot our reality and we gather information and we create what is

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called a neuro associative complex in the brain from sensory input.

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We then associate it with previous experiences that

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you might call it a memory or a moment of perception.

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And in that moment, whatever the content of that perception is,

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the brain in order to neutralize the chemistry is because of the excitation of

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neurons. It has to balance it,

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the chemistry or otherwise it gets a runaway noise in

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of what they call brain noise.

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What happens is the brain creates a composite opposite

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opposite. And when I finally realized that,

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and I looked at that and I asked where it was for two years, I did it on myself.

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And I did hundreds and hundreds of cases,

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thousands of cases of moments in my life,

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where I saw what was going on and where in my mind.

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And when I did cases in rape and beatings and torture and things of that nature,

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when I had clients that had gone through really quote, "traumatic experiences",

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I found out that they dissociated and created a composite opposite in their

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brain to counterbalance the chemistry in the brain in order to maintain

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homeostasis. And so they were dissociating,

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while they're being beaten for instance,

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they would go and imagine themselves invincible, when they were in darkness,

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they'd see light, they'd feel like they're, they're constrained,

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they'd see freedom and act like a bird or a butterfly or fly or something.

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And I watched these dissociative states,

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the content of the dissociated state was counterbalancing the state that they

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were experiencing in their so called trauma.

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I also noticed in ecstatic drug use,

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the ecstatic would create paranoias of the opposite.

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And I realized that the mind is always maintaining pairs of opposites.

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When I discovered that and proved that, thousands of cases in my own life,

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and then clinically working with clients,

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I discovered what I think is one of the greatest discoveries of human

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psychology. And we live in a zoology of psychologies, it's a zoo,

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perpetrator, innocent victim model.

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And so we are separating causalities and blaming other people and no therapy

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will ever be complete till cause equals effect in space time.

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And so what happens is I went in there and I went in and identified exactly

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where it was when it was, what it was, content context, who it was to,

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and I looked for the other side and I found it every time.

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I found it was either real or virtual,

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but I found that it was complimentary opposites. And man,

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I got tears of gratitude and I saw the same thing I got when I got with Leibniz

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when I was 18 and I just went wow, this,

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this is too profound not to share. It's just too profound.

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And then I started clinically working with people with my method

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more and more.

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And I put it into the Breakthrough Experience where I begin to teach people

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this. And the Breakthrough Experience I've done 1,107 times,

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to try to get this message out to people because people are caught in this

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fantasy and opium of quote "self-improvement" and get

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try to be one sided in this moral constrained hypocrisy that we live in.

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And we subject ourselves to traditions and conventions that are antiquated,

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and aren't really human behavior at its highest, highest and finest.

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And when I finally put that into place and put that in the Breakthrough

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Experience, I watched transformations in people's lives.

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I saw people see things they never saw before and all of a sudden,

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when they saw the pairs of opposites, their heart opened,

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and I realized that love is truly a synthesis and synchronicity of any

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complimentary opposites. So whatever you perceive, the opposite's there,

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and when you're doing something to somebody,

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I looked again and when you were mean to somebody who was nice,

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when you were nice, who was mean,

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when you're rejecting somebody who is wanting them,

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when you're stealing something who was being generous, when you were generous,

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who was being stealing?

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I blew people's minds by making them aware and show them that their intuition

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always has that answer. We have what is called sensory awareness.

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Then we have an intuitive, noospheric awareness, and most people,

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I call it the immanent mind and the transcendent mind

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higher mind, or the unreflective mind,

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the pre reflective mind and the reflective mind,

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depending on who you want to read their writings of.

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And I realized that we have access to vast amount of knowledge and can find the

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hidden order in the chaos. When I was 18,

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I also read Boltzmann's work and Einstein's on a Brownian movement.

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And I thought he never was satisfied with the idea of it just random systems.

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I always believed that randomness was just not knowing all the variables and all

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factors as Pascal described in his work.

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So I basically sat there and I tried to find the hidden order in the apparent

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chaos. And by God, when I found six and 13,

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columns 6 and 13 of the Demartini Method,

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and I found these synchronicities of opposites, I found a goldmine. And man,

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it's hard,

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it's hard not to share that with people because they run their life

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as victims of history. Instead of masters of destiny,

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they think there's chaos and their life is burdened and they don't see life on

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the way they see it in a way. But when I show them this,

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they realize there's nothing there out of order. They're graced,

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they have meaning, they find the mean,

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the pairs of the pairs of opposites joined. And there's enlightenment.

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There's an aha. There's an inspiration. There's a metaphysical jump.

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There's a, there's a, a true spirituality.

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Spirituality is not a tribal thinking and not an anthropomorphism of some

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religious dogma that's antiquated set up on Ptolemy's and Aristotle's view of

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the world with primum mobiles, that's antiquated. Spirituality has no race,

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creed, color, age, or sex limitations. It's transcendent.

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It has no local language monoglotic constructs.

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Its massively more vast than that. And,

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and I feel that we no matter what your background is, what your tradition is,

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there's a way now of discovering the magnificent intelligence of

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the universe, the pan psychic intelligence,

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the implicate order as David Bohm would describe

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in the universe, by asking the right questions.

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The quality of your life is based on the quality of the questions you ask,

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cause questions make you conscious of the unconscious.

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And then I went one step further on the next column.

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And I I realized that as long as we were comparing our life to a fantasy of

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one sidedness, we aren't gonna appreciate our life.

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So I had to crack the fantasies and the nightmares that it was leading to.

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So what I did is I said,

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go to the moment where and when you perceive this individual displaying or

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demonstrating the specific trait, action, inaction that you admire or despise.

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Let's say you despise. And at that moment,

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if they have done just the opposite of what you thought they did,

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that you despised and you admired that, what would have been the drawback?

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And I make them go into that moment.

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So that's where the moment where their intuition can answer that question

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without speculation. And go in there, what would be the drawback?

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And when they answer that, they go to the drawbacks of that.

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They break the fantasy of how it could and should have been, cause the could,

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should, and would have been's or whatever is interfering with the way it is.

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Anytime you compare your reality to a fantasy of how it should have been,

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you're not grounded in reality. What it is, is what it is.

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How does that serve you? How is what's happening right now,

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fulfilling your life? Not how has it, how is it should be like it used to be,

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or should be like I want it to be, or fantasize about it, but how is it worth?

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By cracking the fantasies,

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which is Column 14 in the Demartini Method and the nightmares,

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because when we're admiring somebody,

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if we were actually frightened of it's opposite,

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if we found the benefits of the opposite, we not only dissolve the infatuation.

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Cause when we infatuate with people,

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we minimize ourselves and then try to live in their values and then self

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depreciate.

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So infatuations are just as devastating to mastery of life as resentments.

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And both of them occupy your mind and run you.

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So I clear those in the last columns.

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And those are the first 14 columns of the Demartini Method.

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There's about 70 columns in this whole method,

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I'm not going to take the time to go through all, but those are the main ones.

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And then I went on further and I realized that there's another eight comms

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dealing with gain and loss.

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I realized that we only perceive loss of things we infatuate with.

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And we only perceive gain of things we, when we're infatuated with it,

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but if we all of a sudden aren't infatuated with something,

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we don't fear it's loss. See if we're infatuated with somebody,

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we fear they're going to leave us.

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If we're resentful to somebody we fear they're going to come close to us.

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If we're resentful to somebody, we hope they leave us.

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We look forward to leaving us. We're not, we're not frightened of that.

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And when we're resentful to somebody, when we're not resentful to somebody,

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we don't have a fear of them coming near us.

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So we're going to be run by external worlds by when we judge.

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So I developed further in another eight columns,

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how to dissolve grief and relief and how to dissolve these infatuations and

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resentments and how to realize nothing's missing in your life.

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And I've taught that now I've taken three,

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no 3,576 people who've

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lost loved ones and shown them how to dissolve grief.

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And it's an average about one hour, one hour and 15 minutes to two hours,

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max of three hours. And it's a science, it's reproducible.

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It's been studied now at Keio University in Japan.

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It's been demonstrated in hundreds, and hundreds, thousands of cases. And man,

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anyway, that's another eight columns plus 14,

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that's 22 columns right there of human transformation and it's

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profound. And when you're done with it,

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all you can sit is sit in awe with a tear in your eye. You'll have gratitude.

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You'll have love. You'll be inspired. You'll be thankful. You'll feel certain.

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You'll be present. And you realize it was,

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there was a hidden order in the apparent chaos, a magnificence.

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And this is what Leibniz was saying. My dream of finding that thing,

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that Leibniz said,

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that sense that I was destined to find that and be one of those people to do

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that. Once I found a science to that, and now I can share that,

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there's no human being that can't have that.

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There's no human being that can't have the ability to see both sides and see the

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synchronicities of opposites and be grateful for their life.

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Everything is ultimately on the way.

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I really believe that the universe has panpsychically intelligent and doing what

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it can to assist us in doing something magnificent with our life,

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to help us live authentic and inspired lives. And some people think, well,

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that's crazy, because they're victims.

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They want to run the story and they want to blame things.

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I've never seen blame of an external source causing you whatever this

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delusion you have. And some heroes, some fantasy individual, some,

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some saviour on the outside to save you, a magic bullet,

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like the magic bullet in medicine. Those are bullshit.

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They're not what makes it happen. The hero out there is not outside you.

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The villain out there is not outside you. They're completely inside you.

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And they're not even really heroes and villains.

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They're two parts of your nature that you must have in order to master your

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life. Anyway, I could go on for longer,

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but I just wanted to share the magnificence of that

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development of the method that I've now taken thousands,

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literally tens and tens of thousands of people through.

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And I hope to share that with you live so you can get to see yourself cause once

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you learn it, you'll realize it's not something you're going to throw away.

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You're going to put this into your life and use it over and over again.

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And we've got a new app that's soon going to be released about it,

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but please find a way of coming and learning,

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come to the Breakthrough Experience or whatever to learn how to put it in

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operation, because this is a very powerful tool. It's real true science.

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I've worked very hard on it for 47 years and it works.

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It freaking works and it's revolutionizing psychology. It is.

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And it deserves to,

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because of what's going on in psychology and in psychiatry is not doing the job,

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but now we have something that can. So I just wanted to share that with you.

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I hope you have a wonderful day and you may have to watch this a few times.

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I probably spoke a lot faster than you wanted, but I just,

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I just wanted to share that because it's my life's work. And so that,

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but that's the 22 sections out of about 70 or so more columns that I put

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together on every,

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I'd want to find the solutions to mastering life and the

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human behavior. And I,

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and I know this is something that you're going to put into your life,

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It's going to be helpful to you.

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So thank you for spending time with me and being with me on this particular

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presentation, The Amazing Power of The Demartini Method.

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So I look forward to seeing you at the next little gathering we have,

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conversation that I get to share. Okay.

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Have a super incredible day and think deeply about what I said and find a way of

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learning how to do the method. It will change your life.

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