18- Reluctant pilgrims standing out as individuals
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In this episode, our hosts reflect on how being witnessed validates our notions of what is real. Mandi discusses how reluctant people are to stand out as individuals such that they would rather go with the norm.
Rachel also emphasizes the need to have space to create and express our passions without necessarily having a monetary drive involved or searching for acceptance through social media.
▪ [01:53] Rachel got to know the story of a dog "Bunny the Dog" that was trained to learn to communicate by pushing buttons to form sentences, and how it got depressed as it questioned its existence and realized it was not human. Mandi also knows of someone who recalls the song that triggered their first sense of consciousness in childhood, and she remembers hers too. However, Rachel has no memories before the age of 12; this may be because she had to shut down her spiritual side when she felt it wasn't safe or the trauma of being very anonymous in childhood.
▪ [14:21] What we experience in our minds is supernatural; memories, imagination, electric synapses, and thoughts. Even though these are not tangible, they come from the brain which is tangible, hence they are real. And so intuition is also real enough to be trusted. In addition, those things are real if they can be witnessed, since the whole premise of humanity is to gain validation by having othe
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