621: How To Get Into A Flowstate + Become A Channel For Creativity with Jason Silva
Highest Self Podcast®
Sahara Rose
4.8 • 6.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever witnessed someone so in flow that it feels like divine wisdom itself is speaking through them? ✨
That's exactly how I felt over a decade ago when I first stumbled upon Jason Silva's videos. He was this "mad scientist philosopher" channeling ecstatic wisdom in a way that was unlike anything I had ever seen before. I was 23 years old, completely mesmerized, and I knew I was witnessing something sacred.
Jason is known for hosting 5 seasons of the Emmy-nominated, global hit TV series Brain Games, on the National Geographic Channel, broadcasted in over 171 countries. And now, 11 years later, I had the honor of sitting down with him for a full-circle conversation on the Highest Self Podcast.
In our conversation, we talk about:
🌿 His early explorations of altered states and how they unlocked his creativity and voice
📸 Why recording himself created a "container" to capture lightning in a bottle and refine his gift
🎬 What it truly means to make your life a movie and why we are not just the main characters, but the directors of our own reality
📖 His upcoming book Sacred Derangement and how ecstatic perception can break us open to radical creativity, outrageous self-expression, and a life lived in awe
What I loved most is Jason's reminder that awe is an altered state. Wonder itself has the power to collapse our mental models and free us from the jadedness of adult life. In those moments, the mystery of existence cracks us open, and suddenly our problems don't feel so heavy. We remember we're here to create, to dance, to express, to play
This conversation isn't just inspiring… it's activating. It invites you to reclaim your inner artist, and your ability to weave your own cinematic reality.
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| 0:00.0 | It's not about objective empiricism, but about poetic truth, or what Werner Herzog calls |
| 0:06.1 | ecstatic truth, the truth beyond the literal grid, the truth of poetry and music and song |
| 0:12.6 | and love, those atemporal moments that give meaning to our lives. And so I feel like I've created |
| 0:18.6 | containers to pay regular visitation, to pay reverence to those zones. |
| 0:23.3 | You know, I'm like a priest of the ecstatic, but in my own open source way. |
| 0:29.4 | Trust flow, surrender, let go. |
| 0:32.0 | Just flow, surrender, let go. |
| 0:34.3 | I'm the one I've been waiting for. |
| 0:36.7 | Trust flow, surrender, let go. Just flow, one I've been waiting for. Close. And on this podcast, I love to talk about spirituality and make it modern, grounded, fun, and relatable. |
| 0:57.0 | So it can actually serve your needs. |
| 0:59.6 | So today we're in for a really special treat because you're going to see someone on the podcast |
| 1:03.9 | that has majorly inspired my own voice. |
| 1:07.6 | So maybe if you were in the spiritual world or just hanging out on Facebook, like 11 years ago, |
| 1:12.5 | you came across this guy and he was like this mad scientist that was just channeling this |
| 1:17.2 | wisdom coming through. And I remember I was 23 years old watching him and I was like, |
| 1:21.7 | I am witnessing something divine. You know, there is something so rare when you witness someone |
| 1:27.4 | in their channeled state. |
| 1:28.8 | You are literally watching God consciousness come through. And you're seeing the source wisdom that |
| 1:35.3 | is in the divine, it's in source, literally come through the chakras, being intuitive in the third eye, |
| 1:41.7 | being spoken through the throat, being felt in the heart, being shared through |
| 1:45.3 | the solar plexus and birthed out into the root. And it was so inspiring for me to see him. And now, |
| 1:51.4 | flash forward 11 years later, where I'm here in conversation with him, I feel it was because |
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