One of my recent social media

posts asked me a question;

do you think that prayer works? <Laugh>?

I've been blessed to be

engaged in that question for

most of my life, I think,

so I'd like to address that.

As far as I'm aware of, in

the scientific community,

I don't know if we've ever been

able to create a really objective

scientific, reproducible, duplicatable,

demonstration that prayer

somehow supernaturally

gives you an advantage.

But I believe that there's quite a bit

of evidence to show that depending on

your belief, that if you

are in a moment of prayer,

it does affect your physiology and

psychology, depending on your belief.

And so the benefits are

more individualistic.

I can't guarantee that it's going

to be a collective impact. I don't,

I can't guarantee that

you pray for wealth,

for instance,

that you somehow miraculously are going

to get somebody dropping off some cash

in your mailbox or something.

But I do believe that the

highest of prayer is the

acknowledgement of the hidden order that's

already in your life that you may be

overlooking. So I always

say the highest of prayers,

the greatest of prayers is gratitude,

where you actually are not thinking

there's an error or a mistake

or some flaw or something missing,

and subjugating yourself and

humbling yourself to some

anthropomorphic deity, which is

a projection of your own mind,

hoping that some part of yourself or some

outside supernatural thing is going to

somehow take care of your problems,

I don't find that to be the most

productive thing, but I do believe,

less probabilistic, let's put it

that way. <Laugh>, I do believe that

finding the hidden order in the chaos

and asking quality questions to alter

your perception or alter your

decisions or altering your actions

to increase the probability of achieving

something that's realistic and it's

objective and that is aligned

with what you value most makes

more sense.

So do I and have I used

prayers before? Yep.

I have been in situations

where I didn't see within my

capacity answers to things,

and I dissociated from those and

then imagined something greater

than myself in order to bring in an

answer or to make myself feel at ease.

And so I have definitely done that. And

I'm a firm believer that that has a use

as a stage of development,

but I think as we gain more

understanding and more wisdom,

we take on more accountability.

It was Epictetus,

the Greek philosopher that said,

first you blame things on the outside

and give credit to things on the outside,

then you blame and give

credit to yourself,

and then you realize there's nothing

there to blame or give credit to,

there's just a hidden order in

life. There's nothing to judge,

nothing to think of better or worse or

improvement or disprove. It's just order.

Thank you. So I think thank you

is the greatest of all prayers.

Thank you for what is as it is.

And I think that's the thing

that's most useful. Now,

if you have found in your

experience that going into prayer

has calmed your mind, centered your

physiology, helped you in healing,

helped you come to a more

objective calm state,

where you're not in your amygdala to

be able to answer questions and solve

problems,

and allow you to now see more

synchronicities in your life,

because when you're living more

congruently your filtering mechanism of

your pulvinar nucleus of your thalamus

tends to see more opportunities are

aligned with what your intention

is. If you use that, fantastic,

I'm not against that. I think

that that's a useful tool,

but I don't think it's because

of some supernatural mechanism.

I'm not against the idea of panpsychism

that maybe there's some sort of an

intelligence that's permeating

subatomic to astronomical domains,

but I can't say that it's

some anthropomorphic or

zoomorphic projection of our

own anxieties onto it.

I think it's more of a field

of possible intelligence. Now,

do I believe that prayer is useful

and has it served people through the

centuries? Yeah.

Do I believe that it can also be

delusional and basically dodging

the accountabilities and the growth and

development of the mind to be able to

solve problems and be accountable

for those problems and figure out new

solutions instead of just passing the

buck onto something outside yourself?

I believe that we can evolve

our prayer to one from

dissociation from challenges and hoping

something outside is going to solve our

problem,

to one of acknowledging there's already

a solution in place and we just haven't

seen it and be acknowledging

it with gratitude.

So I'm okay with it. I know that

just like in elementary school,

they have to teach you that an atom

is a little ball until you're ready to

understand the abstract mathematical

understanding of it and even then,

it's a mystery. Same thing

when it comes to this.

If we go through our development

and the way our brain is set up,

we go through different levels of

understanding of the usefulness of prayer.

And so I'm not against it.

I see that it's essential.

I see millions of people utilizing it.

But if I look at it from a

scientific objective view,

I can't say it's some supernatural thing.

I do believe that there's a

rational mechanism of what benefits

we believe is happening as a result of it.

And there I would pursue the answers

to those questions to solve that,

so we can make something duplicatable

and really rational that we can use.

But some people prefer to

just pray, and okay with that,

I'm not here to judge anybody for

their beliefs along the way. You know,

I've certainly had different stages of

beliefs and awareness along my journey,

but I do believe that from an

objective scientific perspective,

there are more powerful

ways of mastering your life.

But this could be a

stepping stone to people.

Just don't make it a stumbling block and

then hold yourself back from pursuing

holy curiosity and answering questions

and solving problems and preventing

issues that you may be praying for.

I think that most people pray for things

that they're grateful for or things

that they're ungrateful for.

And I believe that if we look carefully

enough every moment of our life,

we can be grateful for it. Every

time I do the Breakthrough Experience

I've had people come in with things that

they were praying for some assistance,

we went through and navigated through

it, looked at it from a new perspective,

and then they were grateful for what is

as it is. And there was nothing to fix,

nothing to change, nothing was missing.

To me that state of awareness is,

is science and reproducible.

And I prefer to use that tool and

that approach than hoping some

supernatural mechanism is

going to solve my problems.

But everybody's got a

different stage of awareness.

So I just thought I'd talk and

discuss a moment that question,

and hopefully that was something

to make your brain think of it.

And but whatever you believe

prayer is and whatever how,

and however way it's

served you, fantastic.

I just think it's wise to keep

your eyes open for an objective

pursuit of understanding of it,

instead of just stopping and subordinating

to it and then possibly passing up

even more efficient ways of

accomplishing what you want in life.