I am Mission Laciani, founder of Mind Valley, the School for Human Transformation.

You're listening to the Mind Valley Podcast where we'll be bringing you the greatest teachers and

thought leaders on the planet to discuss the world's most powerful ideas and personal growth for mind, body, spirit and work.

The world that we exist in is really a world that is happening

cognitively in our minds based on beliefs, rituals, culture, social

indoctrination, and what our mom and our dad and our media and our

priest and our teachers and our preachers tell us to be do and think. That's the

culture escape but we don't see that because like a fish swimming in water we don't realize that the rules in

which we live life are not necessarily true for everyone else.

They're only true for us because of our conditioning.

Now the problem with this culture escape is

that many people believe it's real and thus they become a victim of a culture

escape. The things that happen to them, A breakup, a business failure, being hospitalized,

severely influenced them. The world happens to them.

Now, the interesting thing is,

Alan Watts said, none of this stuff is real.

In fact, there's a famous lecture by Alan Watts,

where he says this,

there is no such thing as a thing.

9 to 5 is a thing.

No such thing.

Marriage, religion, God, mindfulness, none of these exist. They are simply ideas in our head.

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