What if our entire reality is an intricate illusion designed by an advanced intelligence? Join me, Megan McDonough, on this thought-provoking episode of Intuitive Insights, where we unravel the mysteries behind Nick Bostrom's simulation theory, the Indian concept of maya, and Plato's allegory of the cave. We'll explore how different cultures and ancient philosophies have long questioned the nature of our perceived reality. I'll also introduce my unique perspective on hybrid beings—entities that bridge the physical and energetic realms—and stress the importance of nourishing both body and soul. Discover how our physical experiences sculpt our inner light and karmic lessons, all illustrated through the lens of light and darkness.
Transitioning from fear to love is not merely a mindset shift but a transformative journey that we're embarking on together. I'll guide you through recognizing the magical spaces where fear simply cannot exist, offering practical techniques to help you move towards love. Reflect on your own experiences, and let's create a community of creative and intuitive individuals. Feel free to connect with me on social media or via email at Magnetize your Light. As Pema Chodron beautifully reminds us, while our true nature remains constant like the sky, our physical experiences are transient like weather. Here's to a week filled with curiosity, love, and the wisdom to see beyond the illusion.
What if our entire reality is an intricate illusion designed by an advanced intelligence? Join me, Megan McDonough, on this thought-provoking episode of Intuitive Insights, where we unravel the mysteries behind Nick Bostrom's simulation theory, the Indian concept of maya, and Plato's allegory of the cave. We'll explore how different cultures and ancient philosophies have long questioned the nature of our perceived reality. I'll also introduce my unique perspective on hybrid beings—entities that bridge the physical and energetic realms—and stress the importance of nourishing both body and soul. Discover how our physical experiences sculpt our inner light and karmic lessons, all illustrated through the lens of light and darkness.
Transitioning from fear to love is not merely a mindset shift but a transformative journey that we're embarking on together. I'll guide you through recognizing the magical spaces where fear simply cannot exist, offering practical techniques to help you move towards love. Reflect on your own experiences, and let's create a community of creative and intuitive individuals. Feel free to connect with me on social media or via email at Magnetize your Light. As Pema Chodron beautifully reminds us, while our true nature remains constant like the sky, our physical experiences are transient like weather. Here's to a week filled with curiosity, love, and the wisdom to see beyond the illusion.
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Hello and welcome to Intuitive Insights, where we discuss all things intuition and insights gained through readings and how you can best utilize your intuition for better flow in your life. I am your host, megan McDonough, and here is this week's intuitive insight. So I have been marinating on something that came to me intuitively lately and I love to share it with you, and some practices that I've been finding helpful and challenging for this practice. So there is a hypothesis that we're all living in a simulation or a matrix. The movie the Matrix was all about this. If you haven't seen it, do. It's great, especially Keanu Reeves' karate moves Pretty worth a watch.
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But point is simulation hypothesis states that what humans experience as the world is actually a simulated reality, such as a computer simulation in which humans themselves are constructs. The hypothesis was first formulated by Nick Bostrom and was presented not only as a philosophical speculation but also as an empirical claim with quantifiable probabilities. Now I don't have to tell you that this philosophy was received with a lot of criticism from the scientific community, calling it pseudoscience and even going as far as to call it a religion. But in the history of philosophy and philosophies on life on life, it's not so out of left field In yoga, in ancient Indian philosophy or the ancient Indian philosophy of yoga, is the idea of maya, maya being illusion, that all we perceive in this world is just an illusion. Anything that can be attached to in this world is an element of that illusion. The physical world that we perceive through our senses is an illusion, is an illusion and that once we surpass this illusion, the true self, the consistent self, reveals itself. That is the true reality, that the physical world is attached to the ego and that is the construct of the illusion of our reality.
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Many cultures have had a theory or theories on this type of idea. In China there's the butterfly dream of I'm going to pronounce this wrong, but Zenguzi, I think that's. I'm sure I hacked that Ancient Greece philosophy on this that all is like the scenes in a painting. Plato's allegory of the Cave is another example. Aztec culture had a theory that the world is a painting or a book righted by the Tutel. I'm sure I'm saying that wrong, but it means divinity, rene Descartes, shakespeare.
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This idea is not new. I believe I've said this before too, and I'm not sure which Native American tribe had this theory but that the waking life was the dream and the but why think this? How does this idea even come about? Does it come from just the fact that we have better access to more elaborate video games now and it sets our imaginations running? It's possible. Or is it that we innately know and feel that there is a higher, more intelligent than us energy at play and it's our way to try and make sense of it?
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See, in my mind, I believe that we're hybrid beings, that we're both divine guidance assisting our souls to learn the lessons in this game of life, and that is the true reality. That divinity of soul, that energetic being, the part of us that uses what I call feel, see, feel, know, feel, hear all the clairs is another way of saying that is another way of saying that it's that knowing that everything in our lives are built and provided by some kind of divine source to support us, to help us on our path, that there really is no good or bad, it just is. And what there is is information. That information leads you to the next level of ascension. In my hybrid beings theory, we are part energetic being and part physical. We feed and energize the physical body through food, nourishment, rest, rejuvenation, exercise, education, community. The energetic body is fed by meditation Practices like yoga, energetic practices, connection, love. The power source for the physical body is the brain, the power source for the energetic body is the heart and, just like a hybrid car, you need both sources of fuel to run optimally.
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How I see it, and from my experience, is that it all boils down to the dark and the light, fear and love. I know I've talked about this before, but I feel like we can always find a new entry way into this and I'm not the first one to come up with this by any means but there's always a new illumination, a new analogy that might help us see it better, more clearly, and so this is what I'm sharing today. I see the dark energies as all the fear-based frequencies that allow us to see the light-based frequencies of love with greater definition and detail. I've been using this quote when I teach meditation to the students, and I love it. It's by Pema Chodron, a Buddhist monk you are the sky, the rest is just weather, and how I explain this to the students is that if you walked into a room and it was just light, all light, what would you see?
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What would you see? You wouldn't see anything. You'd just see light, you wouldn't see anything, you'd just see light. That light is us, that light is the constant. It's what we're all made of, it's our essence, it's our souls. But we can't see it because it's just light. So in order to see it clearly, to understand it fully, we're gifted this beautiful skin suit filled with karmas, life lessons that our soul has requested to learn before we were born.
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That skin suit scoops up just a piece before we were born. That skin suit scoops up just a piece of the light in that room and encapsulates it with this filter of our quote unquote skin suit and our predetermined life lessons suit and our predetermined life lessons. You are the sky, is the light in the room before the skin suit and the light inside the skin suit that is still part of the light in that room. The rest is just whether is anything connected to that skin suit in the physical world. The pain, the suffering, the doubt, the fears, the worry, the anguish, the regret, fear attaches to the skin suit, the skin suit. Fear and all of its sub-frequencies, like hate, jealousy, anger, lust, greed, anxiety, are ways in which we are pulled from the origin of our light to the illusion of our skin suit and the physical world we find ourselves in in this skin suit philosophy of mine, our hybrid nature, both light, the intangible and physical. The tangible, just like a costume that you wear. It's not good or bad. Inherently, it's just a costume. It's what we put on, it's how we choose to wear that costume that changes the costume's tone.
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When we can put a filter on anything, any image that comes across our path in this day and age, we have so many options on how we can choose to view things, to which filter to look at them through. What we want to highlight, what we want to choose to erase or ignore. We're all cultivating our own realities in this physical world on a momentary basis, drawing lines in the sand to our personal realities, and then we're upset that we aren't all in the same reality, which is quite ironic, going as far as to punish others and ourselves, to become violent in the name of righteousness to protect our beautifully cultivated personal reality. But that's Maya. But that's Maya. That's an illusion. It's an illusion because it's impermanent, because it changes, because it will decay, it will transform, it will shift In my vision of a soul or the room filled with light, that doesn't change.
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I believe our souls align with the law of conservation of energy or the law of thermodynamics, which states that energy in a closed system must remain constant. It can neither increase nor decrease without interference from the outside. I see our souls as energy in a closed system of the universe, that room filled with light. Nothing new is being created in there, it's just being recycled to enhance and to expand the collective unconsciousness lessons in the physical world. Personally, I do believe we're in the matrix, the matrix built of fear. When we remember our light, made of love, and all of its sub-frequencies, like faith, kindness, joy, creativity, generosity, gratitude, that's when the illusion of fear dissipates.
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And it's not easy to unplug from this fear. It's everywhere you turn, everywhere you scroll. I mean you cannot look on your phone without finding five things you were doing wrong in your life or five things you need to know now so that you don't die, or your children don't die, or you don't eat the wrong thing, or you've been doing it all wrong your whole life, and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Right, it's even wrapped up in a blanket of love in some institutions, in some styles of conversation, in some policies. It's even wrapped up in a blanket of love when you're trying to protect your children and you say things that are really just your fear being expressed through kind words or the reverse, your fear being expressed through unkind words, but it's still fear Fully loving your children to protect them. You have faith in them, not fear for them, and that's a hard one to unravel or to trust.
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Love expands, fear contracts. Love unites. Fear contracts. Love unites, fear separates. Love has no conditions. True love has no conditions. Fear wrote the book on conditions. Fear wrote the book on conditions.
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So if you're ever at a loss and you're not sure if you're in fear or faith, or fear or love, check this list. Are you in a space where you are expanding your love or are you contracting it? Are you in a space where you are connecting and uniting something or are you separating it? Are you putting conditions on things or are you eliminating them? If you find yourself in fear contracting, separating, labeling, conditions my favorite go-to is to get curious, stay curious and play, stay curious, play, get creative, get curious, surprise yourself.
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Fear does not live in those magical spaces. All right, that's it. That's what I wanted to share. If this spoke to you anyway, please like and subscribe or reach out. I'd love to hear your insights, your thoughts, whether it resonated with you or not. Are you living in fear? Are you living in love? Do you have any techniques to go from fear to love? I'd love to hear them. You can find me at Magnetize your Light on Instagram and Facebook, or info at Magnetize your Light email, and if you would like to join our community of creative, intuitive, like-minded souls seeking to connect and elevate, you can find all that information on my website, magnetize your Light, underneath the Community tab. Have a beautiful week, stay curious, play Big buckets of love. Thank you, thank you.