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they made a great movie out of it. Uh, the Japanese director Kirk Kurasawa, I believe in the 80s, did a movie. It's called Deers Sua. I highly recommend you see it. This Russian explorer at the turn of the 20th century, his name is Arenev. He's exploring the Siberian tiger, which is this vast kind of wasteland of snow and and uh and you know, it's just there's indigenous tribes, etc. And he's exploring because they're parts of the Tiberian saiga, the Siberian tiger. Sorry. >> Tiberian saiga. >>
Got that wrong. I'm getting a little punch drunk. The Siberian tiger that had never been seen before. So, he's sent out there to map it, right? He's a scientist, right? Very good scientist, a ctographer. So, he's out there and he's going through this area that's that's very wild that no Russian has been before. And he's there's this man. They're they're having a camp. They're sitting by the campfire and this indigenous man named Deruzula asks if he can sit by the fire with them and uh smoke
his pipe. and he was a trapper, a hunter who's by himself. He belongs to this tribe called the gold. Um, but he's lives mostly on his own and and you know, occasionally he meets other members of his tribe, but he's basically a hunter, a trapper. And Arenv invites him to sit by the campfire and they share a meal and slowly he falls under the spell of this man and he says, "Will you join us on our expedition? We need somebody like you." And the man agrees.
Okay, he'll be their guide. He'll show them, you know, where to go. And slowly he realizes that this man with his pagan beliefs, is so much more powerful than they are. His body, first of all, he's in his 50s or 60s, he has 20 times the energy that they have. He can do feats that they can't even imagine, right? Because his consciousness isn't telling him, you can't do this, you can't do that. He's just open to everything. He knows every little detail of the forest. He
can read like you can read a book. He knows by the tracks on the ground what animal passed, what kind of mood they were in, whether they were in heat or not, and whether they were hungry. He can read everything by how branches are broken. He can see the sky and say a storm is coming even though it's like 2 days beforehand. He smells the temperature, the weather. He says that the the forest breathes and is alive and he knows how it breathes and he can
feel it. One day they encounter a tiger. They hear the the roaring of the tiger and our cinev is terrified. He can't believe it. Tiger's going about to pants on them and a Siberian tiger is believe me is something you don't want to encounter. So he picks up his rifle. He's about to shoot it and and the Daru, the indigenous guy, gets put that away and he walks right up to the tiger and he starts talking to it and he starts telling it. He says that
the tiger is the soul of the jungle and if you mess with the soul of the jungle, you're going to pay a price. No, nothing in in the forest will ever uh cooperate with you. And he goes up and he talks to the tiger and says," which is the name of the tiger to his group, "Don't be mad. We're here. just walking around. We're not going to bother you. Please be okay. The tiger walks away. And Aren is like, "My god, weren't you terrified?" He goes,
"No, no, never. Never. If you if you shot him, I would never be your friend. You would have violated the Anyway, he comes to realize that this man has an intelligence and a spirit that humans have lost." M >> that we once were so close to the environment that we could read everything that our senses were so alive. We could feel the weather. We could feel animals. We knew the spirit of everything around us and and ends up that our that Der Sue was murdered a
few years later by people who rob him. And he's so sad that this is a world that's disappearing. And he speculates if only we had kept some of this with our scientific spirit because he was a scientist. >> How powerful would be because this man taught me everything about the jungle, about the about the Siberian tiger. So that's the story. How much do you think of what humans call supernatural abilities are actually just natural to humans, but we lost touch with our subconscious so much that
we don't have access to them anymore? Well, um, we are capable of so much more than we think we are. Um, so I I have stories in there of of people kind of stretching the limits. So there's a story about a mountain climber cuz I'm kind of very interested in mountain climbers in the sublime. And he climbs this mountain in Colorado and he gets to the top and he's elated. And now he has to go back down. He can see that a storm is brewing, but
he decides to go back down the other side and find some new uh areas that he hadn't climbed before. So, he's descending. The storm's coming. It's getting a little bit sketchy out there. Suddenly, he's on this ledge and he falls. And as he's falling, his knee hits the rock and he cracks his knee open and he lands on the ledge that's like like a foot wide. Okay, maybe a foot and a half wide. And he lands on his krampons. So he's bleeding. His knee is cracked.
He's sitting on this tiny ledge. He's somehow very lucky that he landed there. He fell about 30 ft. The storm is coming. He's alone. And he's going, "I'm I'm I'm about to die." And he starts crying. He starts sobbing. And then a voice inside says, "Try to get to your feet. Just try to get to your feet." And it's really painful. His, as I say, his knee is cracked. He somehow manages to get to his feet. Then all of a sudden as he looks he can
see that there is a slight way that the ledge can lead to another ledge. It's very precarious. But then suddenly he feels this rush of energy. This like he doesn't know what it is and he starts descending onto these tiny ledges, you know, whatever the word is. He finally finds his way back down the mountain and he's ecstatic. He's like, "My god, I was like a mountain goat the way I was suddenly able to descend this mountain. What happened to me? What were these powers that
suddenly came to me, right? I can't make sense of it." And then he goes to a hospital and he takes him months to recover and he's going, "What was that? What was that experience? I have to have it again cuz it was so ecstatic." He spends the next 20 years of his life trying to have that experience again and he fails and he fails and he fails. He climbs Mount Everest. It doesn't work. It's just, you know, uh, leeches are eating at his knees and he's
he's miserable and and there's, you know, storms, etc. He tries long distance cr um, long-distance running. He gets moments where there's some kind of ecstasy, but it's not the same. He reads about the neurology of the human brain and he goes into indigenous cultures and he realizes that shamans back then, people who had these initiation rituals would put people to the brink of death and then bring them back and that they would then have these experiences like he had. And he decided that they had mastered
the neuroendocrine system. they could control their no their own hormones because what happened to him on that mountain was his body his hormones were creating these dopamines and these adrenaline effects that gave him that mountain goat power. >> Okay. >> So anyway, the the the lesson here is he finally discovers that he creates this his own what he calls a mountain run. It's not the word, but he creates these runs. takes a map and he makes a circle and he's going to run that circle. No
matter what comes into his path, right, in in these wooded areas, even if a mountain or stream, he's got to create that circle. And doing this, he comes upon a cliff that he has to climb, he gets that experience again. Okay? But the point is our bodies have these insane powers that we have. A lot of it is from our physiology, right? from our our own hormone system for how things when we're in a sense of danger. So if you took any stock broker on Wall
Street as rigid and tight and conservative and limited as anything else, as unsublime as any creature you can imagine on our planet, and you dropped him in the middle of an island alone, and he had to survive, his senses would start waking up. these some of these effects would happen >> and he would discover some of these quote unquote supernatural powers that he possesses because when your senses are dead, you're you're not connected to the to your own body. You're not connected to these immense powers
that we have, right? And I sensed a little bit when I was this close to death and I could feel I could feel like death inside of me. It was like something really powerful and really strong, not like anything else. And it was like a power that I can't even verbalize, but is out there somehow. And it's going to happen to everyone when they die. You're going to feel that. You're going to feel like you're connecting to something un cosmic, right? And so there's something and
then when you emerge from that your physiology and your brain is slightly altered and you don't have supernatural powers but the world looks different >> and that you know it's not without I'm not taking LSD. I'm not taking uh you know uh why wosca or whatever you call it again. It's just there. It's my my own brain. Your brain has these weird weird weird powers that you're not even accessing because you're not even connected to your body anymore. You're not connected to your own mortality. You're
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