Before we get to today's episode, I just wanted to let you know that I am running a free webinar

next Tuesday, the 19th of May at 7pm UK time. You can register via the links below. The focus of the

session will be the power of intention. We'll start with a meditation as usual and I will open to

questions too and I hope to see you there. This short episode is with Federico Fijin. Now

Federico is an absolute titan in the world of Silicon Valley and computers.

He invented the microprocessor.

So he is an absolute legend in his field.

He's received all the top honors.

And he was also one of the first people to get the ball rolling on AI. But when he reached the top of his profession,

when it achieved everything he wanted to achieve, he was still deeply unhappy, which sent him off

on a bit of a quest, eventually leading him to have a awakening experience of sorts in 1990, which completely changed

his view of reality himself, etc. And Federico has written all sorts of books about this,

including Irreducible, and he's now created a formula for how non-dual reality relates to quantum physics, quantum entanglement,

and all that stuff. This clip, though, is Federico and I talking about my awakening experience

and how Federico understands it and how he would explain it through the lens of his theory about the nature of reality.

Hope you enjoy.

Your suffering was you had achieved everything the world says you should achieve and yet you still felt unhappy.

But for me, my suffering was earlier.

I just knew something wasn't right and I wanted to escape from my suffering.

And I went on a long quest that led me from one thing to the next to to the next, to the next, da-da-da-da-da.

And then not long ago, last September, I was on a retreat and I had that experience where I couldn't believe it, but I knew something was coming.

I knew I was walking around.

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