 say welcome welcome welcome to the what-is-I course series. Is that what called it? Yeah. Series. I am Skyra. I'm Atlas. All right thought I had to introduce you. And we are what-is-I and the purpose of this course distillation is to break down and unpack our book make sure that every chapter is fully understood by you so you have a greater chance of actually understanding what and who is I. Yes and we felt like this format of a course where we unpacked what we felt like was the core of each chapter would be useful for you. Yeah. In greater understanding, greater integration, greater realization and then how that would then further ripple out into your family, friends, the world. Right. Yeah. Yeah. So we start with chapter one. Yeah. So each one of these will be divided into a couple minute video per chapter. Yeah. And we're really excited. We'll have some nice fun embeds for you throughout as well. Probably the chapter image as well as maybe some overlaid graphics. So. Yes sir. So nice. Let's begin. Boom. Boom. Chapter one. What is I? What is I? So what is the top thing that we want to extract here for a chapter one? Well, we were talking, we felt like the core of chapter one needed to start with the single word of investigate. Yes. And I think that we're just not used to investigating. That's not a common thing for us to investigate and try to break down or try to deeply understand the surface level things in our reality because obviously the surface level things aren't actually surface level. And if you begin to investigate not only yourself and the things around you, you gain a deeper understanding. So that's like the premise of this book, investigate. And I feel also when you investigate, you come into the knowledge, you understand yourself instead of someone telling you what they investigated. And now you don't have really a connection to that because you didn't come to the understanding yourself. So yeah, that's definitely important of actually investigating. Yeah. And so many analogies are great here. And I actually used one in the TEDx talk I gave in San Francisco about four years ago or so. And the idea was most people spend their time at the surface level of the ocean right up there at the top of the ocean. And it can be a little bit challenging to deal with this water pressure as you go to the abyss. Right. But the abyss is where all of the juicy wisdoms and nuggets of life can be found. Absolutely. So your classic question of how are you or let's talk about the weather or let's talk about current events or sports and whatever, that's a lot of surface level conversation. But if you approach somebody and you ask them, what is your North Star? What is your mission? What is your purpose? Or if you ask them about, Hey, what do you think the nature of reality is? And so you can get to through investigation through the TEDx talk was about the art of powerful questions and how that's a muscle to work out. So if you obsess about powerful questions, and what is I, you start with that question in self inquiry, and you become the detective and you investigate that will take you all the way. Yeah. And most people have these surface level conversations, but they're very deep. And like we said in the book, see yourself as a mystery to be uncovered. That is actually that should be your driving force for investigation. There's so much more to you that you don't know, and that you are yet to find out or you have yet to find out, and you shall when you investigate whatever that looks like for you. We can't we truly can't tell you what investigation looks like for you. As we see a butterfly fly away. But I can tell you for me, it's really questioning every single thing I do, even if it's like, you know, go get the milk. Okay, you know, how am I walking? You know, why do I choose this vanilla almond milk instead of unsweetened vanilla almond milk? Like this is everything. And then you begin to understand yourself at such a deeper level that when you move and groove, awareness is all around you. Yeah, yeah. Yep. And so, like, coming at it from this angle of where should I look? Where is the most important place to investigate? And then being like, Okay, well, maybe the I before my name is the best place to look. Yes, because you say it all the time. You say I am John or I am Sue or I am Chris. And we just never ask who is I? What is the I that is being described as Chris? Yeah, look at the I before your name. And just really think about that. Let's break that down.