For issues to soar and I imply constantly soar yr after yr, you want a group who believes in what you initially got down to do and hopefully proceed to do. I‘ve been going to Knowledge 2.0 for practically a decade and what initially introduced me there was bringing consciousness to the expertise trade and different sectors. Their dedication is to handle the overlap between residing linked to 1 one other by expertise and consciousness. In different phrases, doing so in methods which might be helpful to our personal well-being, efficient in our work, and helpful to the world.
Final yr, that they had OPENAI CEO, Sam Altman on stage, but additionally folks like Jack Kornfeld, Yung Pueblo, trauma knowledgeable Gabor Maté, Byron Katie, Dr. Lyla June Johnston, Rhonda Magee, Alex Senegal, Mohammed Mohammed, Chip Conley, MAPS founder Rick Doblin and extra.
This 12 months’s Knowledge 2.0
This yr, Deepak Chopra, meditation grasp Jon Kabat-Zinn, #MeToo motion founder Tarana Burke, V (formally Eve Ensler), Roshi Joan Halifax, and founding father of inner household programs (IFS) Dr.Richard Schwartz have been among the many audio system on the most important stage. V. Pappas additionally addressed social media and its impression on folks, particularly the youth. She shared classes realized from Tik Tok as the previous COO and the way we are able to handle it for ourselves and our youngsters.
V. Pappas with Soren on the primary Knowledge 2.0 stage
Alanis Morrissette additionally joined us for a dialog in a hearth chat model format with Knowledge 2.0 host Soren Gordhamer. As a lot as I had hoped for a tune or two in addition to her insights, music wasn’t on the desk at this yr’s occasion. She shared her knowledge and likewise her personal finest practices for private progress and therapeutic, which included learn how to keep grounded as a singer, but additionally as a mom. I cherished her genuine voice.
She shared that as an empath, navigating the panorama will be difficult, however realizing it’s a nice begin to know what to do to take care of your self alongside the approach, fairly than shove the hiccups underneath the carpet as so many do. It’s arduous to be a changemaker and a frontrunner however making the dedication to indicate up is an enormous half of it and her exhibiting up on a really totally different stage like Knowledge 2.0 demonstrated that to all of us.
I’m not new to Deepak Chopra‘s work or voice. Not solely have I heard him converse a couple dozen occasions through the years at dwell occasions, however I‘ve learn over half of his books. Generally his talks have been a bit heady or dense for me; nevertheless, readability hit me in all instructions when he graced the stage along with his presence this yr. The main focus? Similarities and overlapping paradigms between science and spirituality, considered one of my favourite subjects.
With out getting too technical or taking place the quantum physics rabbit gap, he made some attention-grabbing parallel observations between Quantum Mechanics and what he known as Quantum Consciousness in his speak. Probably the most attention-grabbing one he raised was The Superposition Precept, which means that the “system will be in a state that could be a mixture of two or extra different states.” On the aspect of Quantum Consciousness, he says that “all psychological occasions exist in superposition and entanglement with sensations, photos, emotions and ideas. Potential psychological occasions exist in a number of states till actualized as expertise.”
He additionally defined how either side begins with elementary assumptions. For instance, science begins with matter is the “ontological primitive of existence, the place as consciousness is the place to begin” for individuals who flip to spirituality for understanding our existence.
“All psychological occasions exist in superposition and entanglement with sensations, photos, emotions and ideas. Potential psychological occasions exist in a number of states till actualized as expertise.” —Deepak Chopra (April 2024)
For individuals who share the materialist view, then matter produces thoughts, however from the world of spirituality, then thoughts and matter (mind, physique and world) are literally “complementary actions of consciousness.” He asserts that “consciousness modifies itself as cognition and notion.” Although I grew up respecting science over spirituality, not less than in terms of understanding humanity’s very existence, his references to Advaita Vedanta/Shaivism made far more sense to me, intuitively that’s.
Science seems to be for constant proof—repeated proof—time and again. It solely takes into consideration expertise in that repeated context, though for these of us who’ve had repeated experiences that we are able to’t clarify—and nor can science clarify—it feels, tastes and sounds extra true than what knowledge typically factors to. In the end this leads us to one thing that masters throughout traditions typically come to on the finish of the day, and that Deepak introduced up on considered one of his slides: “The theater of spacetime and causality is an phantasm/simulation in non-local consciousness (Maya).” I’d argue that this perceived phantasm is what retains separateness in play and so has Ram Das and lots of different non secular masters.
It appeared like a fantastic overview given how various the Knowledge 2.0 attendees have been, some coming in from different continents in addition to different elements of the U.S. We have to proceed this dialogue, as mind-bending it as it might be for some. There’s far an excessive amount of new analysis pointing us towards the gorgeous interconnected internet of life (as vitality) that all of us share, one thing a lot of our indigenous ancestors have recognized for millennia and past.
Though Gabor didn’t converse this yr, the trauma dialogue continued. Iya Affo, who we interviewed for our video collection on Trauma (not but dwell) was on-stage and continued the dialogue at a Q&A later within the day which I attended. She reminds us that if we don’t perceive how trauma impacts the physiology within the mind, we are able to’t study extra empowering methods to manage the mind so we are able to change a few of these damaging behaviors.
She additionally spoke of how some cultures discover speak remedy taboo. So, fairly than specializing in needing to do one thing we consider as taboo, we are able to look to simpler methods to manage the mind. With consciousness, comes energy. In different phrases, the extra we observe totally different conduct, the extra that conduct turns into a brand new neuro-pathway.
“The extra I can regulate my mind, the extra I’ve the capability to make decisions.”—Iya Affo
Iya Affo & Renee Blodgett at Knowledge 2.0 (Day 1)
Mingtong Gu additionally graced us along with his presence. He was educated on the largest qigong hospital in China and was named Qigong Grasp of the 12 months by the thirteenth World Congress for Qigong and Conventional Chinese language Medication. I initially realized about his work on the SAND Convention (which sadly stopped working bodily occasions), though he has spoken and led workshops at Knowledge 2.0 earlier than. I wrote a bit about an occasion he led at Spirit Rock again in 2018 and to this present day, stay a fan. He leads on and dwell programs and occasions from his Chi Heart in Santa Fe. Qigong is a superb re-balancing and therapeutic modality.
Taken with Mingtong Gu at a earlier Knowledge 2.0
Talking of therapeutic modalities, let’s now flip to Inside Household Programs (IFS). Many I spoke to at the convention have been conversant in (and followers of) the IFS work, so the room was packed when Dr. David Schwartz arrived on stage. Schwartz led a IFS course of with Soren on stage, which not solely took us by the steps however confirmed the energy of that vulnerability not simply with others, however most significantly with oneself.
Dr. Richard Schwartz at Knowledge 2.0 (2024)
One half of him is the “striver,” which may get within the approach once we’re doing private progress and non secular work and but, don’t all of us have a bit of striver in us, particularly if we’re main an group, convention or firm? Recognizing it permits us to make amends with that half of us, maintain it in a sacred place after which stability the vitality so it’s helpful fairly than detrimental or overpowering.
