 So this video is inspired by the recent release of OpenAI Sora, which is their text-to-video generation technology. What this means is, you know, right now what I'm doing here, I can't share screen for some reason, but if you just go to Google or any social media and search OpenAI Sora S-O-R-A, you will see astounding videos, short videos for now, but it's going to get longer, but astounding videos that were generated instantly, I mean near instantly, by people just typing in, for example, a cat trying to wake up its owner. And you look at that video, you're like, that looks like reality. It is hard. I mean, those of us who study it closely will see, okay, there's little bits in here, but it is so good that people are astounded, and what they are, what they're saying, I'm not an expert in this new technology yet, but what they're saying is that this technology essentially, and by the way, this is related to spiritual growth. Well, I'll talk about this and how it's related, but they're saying that this technology essentially intuits physics and creates the understanding of physics right as it's generating it, meaning it's creating reality as we go, with creating its vision of reality as we go, and of course, they're taking the reality modeling off of our video and all the many, many videos and images they've seen out there, and so they intuit what our physics is and create, generate on the fly. And then I'm also inspired recently by Apple Vision Pro, which you may have seen this, to me, it's silly looking giant goggles, ski masks that people strap onto themselves. I don't have one. I'm not planning to get one strap onto themselves, and they can, they can see reality with layers on top, like, oh, they see a screen here and they see, you know, they're talking to somebody and they see subtitles, what they're saying is going to be super useful for foreign language learning. You go in reality and you just see subtitles for what people are saying. And anyway, so I'm inspired by this because my question is, what version of this technology is our reality? I believe we are living in a simulation. I've said that for years. I mean, ever since I saw the matrix, you know, back in 1999, I said that makes a lot of sense. And not just matrix, but my love of listening and reading near-death experience stories of what the other reality, what the bigger reality seems to be convinces me, anyway, that we are living in a simulation. And what does that mean, therefore, for our spiritual growth? Now, you can believe that or not believe that. Of course, it's up to you. But I think it has a profound repercussion for our personal growth as well as for societal, the state of society. So for our personal growth, if we're living in a simulation, that means this is not real. This is Apple Vision Pro, version 1000 or whatever. It is a bodysuit. We are playing the game called Planet Earth. This is a massively multiplayer role-playing game called Planet Earth. And you and I are different characters. We actually designed, so we had a hand in designing the character that we wanted to play. Again, when I said, I've been saying this for at least a decade, longer than that. And the more I've said this over the years, the more people go, oh, yeah, that makes sense. Because the technology that's coming out and saying, well, you can see what the consequence of this technology is. Instant video generation, based on whatever ideas I have in the future, all of us are going to be Hollywood directors of saying, you know, tonight, honey, tonight, instead of like, honey, let's watch that show, some people still watch shows. It's going to be like, honey, let's watch a show about a family living in Antarctica and trying to survive. And it's going to be a heartwarming story of coming of age, whatever. You could make up whatever plot and whatever situation. And instantly the AI will generate for you an entire two hour movie or TV show. Or like, hey, I'd like to watch this, you know, whatever TV show I have. But now you add in these characters in the situation and instantly will generate. So if that technology just keeps getting better, the ability to instantly generate reality, at least on screen, and in our virtual reality goggles, and eventually it's not going to be just goggles, it's going to be, you know, body suits, you know, people are going to be able to not just put on goggles, put on the whole suit and like simulate, oh wow, I'm in a forest now. I can feel the cold air on my skin. I can obviously hear and see what the forest looks like. I can eventually, I don't know, I'm sure it's coming, but there's brain implants that will allow you to simulate, wow, I can taste this. I can smell this and all that stuff. So play with me here and just imagine that this technology just keeps going. We're only in the very early days and the technology, of course, it's going to become so real that the people who strap on these body suits are not going to be able to tell that, you know, that this is real versus this. And after they exit those body suits, they're going to need some time of recovery, which from my understanding is also what happens when we die. Our souls exit our bodies and there are kind of quote-unquote hospitals, something like that, on the other side where we recover from such an intense simulation, simulated experience. Our souls have to recover like, my God, that was, there's parts that were horrible. There are parts that were deeply addicting. We're attached to certain parts of this reality and we have to like detach and go, okay, I'm back out in the soul world, in the more real world than here. And who knows, maybe even the soul world, that level is also simulated from something else, right? Simulation upon simulation. But back to the pragmatics of living in this Earth game and I call it my life monastery. I think I came here, I have such a strong sense of this is my life monastery. I think I came here for that purpose. Like again, I think we all designed this simulation, our own simulations, to have a certain theme, themes, to have certain themes and to have certain purposes. And so my question for you, therefore, is again, the point is the technology is making this idea of a simulation hypothesis more and more real. And if it were real, okay, what do you think your simulation is about? Why do you think you put on this body suit and came to play Earth life game and had your particular DNA? Some of us have certain disabilities that we designed, I believe, I believe we designed them to experience certain things. We designed being born into a certain time in a certain type of family. Some of our families are very wholesome and loving. Some of our families are quite abusive and traumatic. We designed these experiences. The question is why did you design it? Why did you design it that way? Why do you think you might have designed this experience that way? Because, well, if this is a simulation and this is a game, or a game, but it's a simulated experience, that means we can play other simulated experiences after this, or perhaps, and I believe, and having listened to a lot of near-death experience stories, I believe we are playing multiple simulations at once. Our soul, our master soul, is playing a bunch of simulations all at once. I don't know why, but each simulation I think has a why. So I ask myself, and why you ask yourself, why is this simulation happening for you? What's the purpose of it? What are the themes that you're supposed to somehow experience and somehow perhaps grow from? I don't know. Experience, is it to put more love into the world? And that's another belief of mine is that we all have individual purposes of each of our simulations. Okay, I'm disabled in this way. I'm supposed to experience this. I'm supposed to learn something from this, grow stronger, I don't know, in certain ways. But we also have a shared purpose. Like everybody playing Planet Earth has, or many of us at least, have a shared purpose, which is to add more love into the simulation. To add more, to experience what it's like to spontaneously and openheartedly give more love into situations. It could be small things like walking by somebody on the street and taking, not even a thought for you, but you've developed this sense of camaraderie and friendship. So you say hi and you smile at them and you genuinely send them just a smidgen of love. And it makes a difference in their life. Like it made a difference in their day, which rippled out and made a difference in their life and in other people's lives. And it's like we're experimenting with adding love in as many situations as possible. Small situations and of course larger and more difficult situations of adding love. And somehow that has a ripple effect and helps us create a template for other simulations. It somehow affects, as far as I understand, it affects other realities, affects other dimensions, it affects other worlds. Somehow this world, this game, is really, really important because how much we add love and are able to add and receive love too. And to give love to ourselves. Like how much we add love to every, as many experiences as we can, creates some kind of a learning and important growth of the simulation for other worlds, other dimensions. This is a game, a lab, a simulation of something. So that inspires me to take this simulation with more preciousness. Because, well, it's just like any simulation on your computer takes computer resources and it takes time, you know, for you to do that. Same thing, I think strapping on this earthly bodysuit took some resources and not everyone is able to instantly quickly do this. I think there's some souls that are waiting for this experience. And we get to be here and it's such a precious opportunity. And even though this is not quote unquote real, there's very real reasons why we're doing this. Again, why might your simulation be happening? Given your background, your upbringing, your DNA, your context of your life. Why might it be happening? That's a good question. You might comment below if you want to. I am open to that. So let's have two minutes to talk about what happens to society. When we, more and more people realize, oh my god, look at this technology. What if this reality is simulating? I think there's going to be two responses. Some people are going to say, well, this is not real. This is simulation. So I might as well be kind of scary. I might as well go and commit some crimes, just like Grand Theft Auto, the very popular computer game. I've never played it myself, but I hear you can just go and shoot people. It's like reality, except you can go rob stores and do all kinds of crimes. And I'm sure you can do good things in there. Again, I don't play the game. But some people might go in that direction and kind of go dark and go, it's not real. Even if I die, it doesn't really matter because I'll get to play this again. So might as well go and do really satisfying my base pleasures no matter what happens in the world. So nihilism, right? Leading to some dark paths for people. And then others, I myself am in this camp, others are saying, my god, this is so, what a pressure, like this is so real. Everything, you know, and what a precious opportunity. Why is this simulation happening for me? I got to figure out, you know, got to figure, got a sense into giving my background and everything that comes to me, what does this mean for me? And how can I make the best of this simulation's purpose? You know, for me, again, I've mentioned, you know, my theme is life monastery. At this time anyway, that's a strong theme for me. So how can I make this life more like a monastic experience for me to grow my soul, to practice and to, you know, use life as kind of like a, my weight, another analogy is soul gym. How can I use life and the difficulties of those life, like weights to practice the muscles of my soul. So that's my theme. And I'm excited to like dive more in. It's like, as I get inspired by these technologies. And while this, this is the greatest technology right here that we that we know of, you know, this reality, this consciousness. So that inspires me. I don't know if that's inspiring for you. I look forward to seeing if any of this connects with you. And if you want to share any thoughts below, I very much welcome it. Thanks for watching.