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Hello everyone!
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No, Crochet is not what we're talking about.
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It's 'Unravel the Crochet'.
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My guest today is Frank Arjava Petter in Greece.
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And this is the place where we agree to disagree.
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Welcome to RTalk.
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Hello Arjava in Greece.
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Good morning, René, nice to see you again.
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It's a little awkward to speak in English to you. Normally we speak in our mother tongue German.
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How is it in Greece? The weather? It's early morning, right?
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Yeah, it's early morning and spring has come.
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The swallows have arrived it's beautiful. Beautiful sunny weather. I think I’ll go for a swim today.
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Maybe ...
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about 17-18 degrees Celsius.
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Beautiful, just gorgeous! Blue skies, incredible sunsets in the evening.
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Nice.
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You know, in my age 18 degrees water the sea is simply too cold.
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I wait until it's getting a little bit warmer.
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Dear guests, dear viewers, you're not here to listen to us about the sea in Greece.
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At this point I very briefly want to introduce my guest Arjava.
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In the Reiki community he needs no real introduction. He is literally world famous.
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But I’m going to - just for some of you or for people outside our community -
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I’m going to have a few corner points:
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Arjava, and I just played a little bit, he is a few years younger than I am, he is born in 1960 in Germany.
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He was 18 when he left his native country, and so just imagine 1978 that was,
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and went to India to live in a spiritual commune with Osho.
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He later he was there several years
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went to the united states of America where he lived for seven years, six years.
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After America he found himself in japan for 12 years.
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In 1992 he embarked on the Reiki journey.
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And in 1997 he released ...
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a ...
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literally a game-changing book of historic value ...
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'Reiki Fire', his first of many, many books.
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I have just a few here.
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And, dear viewers, you will find all the references
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later on our website and also in the description of the video
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if you want to check all that up.
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As a result of 'Reiki Fire'
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he started to become a much sought after teacher all over the globe.
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In 2002 he temporarily went back to Germany.
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Temporarily, that's about seven years
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when he then moved to where he is right now in Greece
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together with his wife Bhakti and his two children.
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So ...
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Arjava, I want to introduce no more of you. I rather have you talk.
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So, without further ado and you may want to tell the viewers a little bit why we're here today
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and ...
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also how we got to talk about the topic
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and who you are. But first ...
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I want to show you a small film.
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(Motor sound and wind.)
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(In German: Riding a motor bike that is freedom.
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My name means 'Freedom'.
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Freedom means to me
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freedom, responsibility, lightness
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This is what I feel when riding a motorbike and gives me absolute joy.)
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This is one of the passions we share, I’m a motor biker too although I haven't got my bike for a while.
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And ... This little video clip was in German ...
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So, maybe you want to talk about your name and introduce yourself a little bit to my viewers, please?
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All right, okay.
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So, my given name Frank, frank means free
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and therefore freedom is
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one of my key values in life. I just love being free.
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But freedom doesn't mean licentious, doesn't mean that you can do whatever the hell you want
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but it means to be incredibly responsible
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for everything that you do, everything that you think,
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everything that you say, yeah? And that's kind of my motto in life.
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But ... what that does for me is I love
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riding motorcycles. I have two big bikes here that I ...
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I enjoy every day and gives me this wonderful freedom. I also have a boat that I go out
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in the sea with and I just love to have this incredible space
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because it reminds me and the same is true for the motorcycle driving
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of that incredible space in your heart which is just empty and spacious
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and gives room to everything that there is.
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That's what I like.
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I think that's a good introduction to myself.
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All the things you have already said and they don't really matter, you know, at least not for me.
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They're all ... All that matters for me is the love that I have in my heart. Everything else is meaningless
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And that brings us halfway to our ...
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(laughs)
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rather poetic subject of ...
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This is a Crochet. I had to learn it from my wife
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because I didn't really know what the Crochet was.
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And my viewers may wonder how we got to
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give our conversation this particular title?
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We could have also taken the Gordian Knot or something like that
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because when Arjava and I spoke about the possibility of
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this very conversation, about a week ago we chatted,
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...
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you Arjava use the terminology
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'psycho-emotional'.
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and in that context we were talking about - in German it is:
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unknotting, unravelling the complexity of our personality.
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So, give me a few words about 'unravelling the Crochet'.
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(laughs) Okay, Okay.
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So, basically we - in Japanese terminology, it's believed that we - are made of
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three bodies.
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And those three bodies are, first of all our physical body, the conscious part of ourselves.
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Then the ...
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...
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next part is the psycho-emotional bodies - there are several -
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our unconscious part
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and then there is the soul,
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which the Japanese believe that all of us have one
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and all of us have been given this soul by the gods during ...
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the pregnancy of our mom around the third or fourth month, yeah?
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So, all of that makes up one human being and those three bodies are:
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one.
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And they are one just like an orange
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is one.
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We talked about this a few days ago, René, that when you look at an orange,
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you don't see the peel of the orange and then
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you see the little white membrane inside and then the fruit-
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flesh inside and the seeds inside. It's all one in the same way
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we consider ourselves also to be one.
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Yeah? But we are one with all of our entanglements.
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(laughs)
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Entanglements are happening on the psycho-emotional level and now,
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especially during this Covid times I think this is the perfect chance
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to work on some of those entanglements and to unravel them.
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Yeah!
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Actually, when you described the Japanese model, let me call it that,
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it isn't all that different from other paradigms in other cultures.
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The approach or maybe the terminology may change somewhat
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but you reminded me of the World Health Organization which says,
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when it describes our holistic being. It takes the physical body the physical level of our existence
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the emotional level, the mental level,
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we are also a social specie, we have social needs and capabilities
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and finally the spiritual level.
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So, that's roughly ...
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it's not all that different from what you said in the Japanese context, don't you think?
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However you look at the human being the truth is always the same.
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It doesn't matter whether you look from a Japanese point of view,
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from a western point of view, from an Indian or Chinese point of view, the human is the same.
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So the expression of truth might be different depending on culture and
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language and the climate and everything but really, when you look deeply into things,
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they're all the same. In India for example they have a more complex idea.
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They believe that there are seven bodies
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So, it's much more structured but it's the same thing.
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We're just looking at the same thing from different angles.
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It's amazing and in fact we're close to one of the things which fascinates me.
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I want to ... I like to do this in my RTalks:
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my guests often come from within the Reiki - actually they all come from within the Reiki community -
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Reiki is a holistic treatment Reiki has a strong spiritual component.
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So, to look at things a little bit from outside the bubble I very often ...
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choose to take models and thought processes
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from politics or economy or things like that. And I want to ...
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do you know what the Universal Basic Income is?
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No. No, I don't know.
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Okay. We in Switzerland we call it ...
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the ...
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- let me see, how do I do this? I had to add this ... here.
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we call it the Unconditional Basic Income.
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And in fact, the idea behind it is - and Switzerland had a people's initiative five years ago, six years ago
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where the people voted
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on the decision whether to ask the government or ...
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give the dictate to the government to implement the law
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in favour of this concept. And basically the idea is to create a society where we guarantee every member
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who is born, literally from the day one, until the day when they die
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an essential coverage, a monetary coverage, a payment which guarantees their existence.
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'Unconditional' is the key word behind it. That actually means
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that people don't need to work to gain it.
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So, in this discussion there were two arguments which questioned the sensibility.
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One was is it financially doable?
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And the other one was, well, if everybody gets a salary ...
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who is going to do the work?
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And this is where it becomes interesting to me. And has to do with what you just said.
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Because ...
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they made a research and they discovered the following:
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the majority of the people asked in the research
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said, of course, they would continue to work even if they had
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their existence guaranteed with a basic income.
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Then they took these same, say, 90 people
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and asked them:
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"In confidence, between you and me,
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what do you think the other 89 people what do they do?"
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And the majority of these 90 people, that is 67 people statistically, said
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that they think:
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"I will work but not the others."
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And that to me is such an interesting statistics because
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it somehow shows how people have a comprehension of themselves
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assuming that the other is different.
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and you touched upon that and very beautifully.
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You said that we're actually under the surface all one.
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So, share with me a little bit your thoughts, Arjava please,
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why is this in your opinion that we get side-tracked and
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have so often the illusion that my species, my group, my gender,
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my race, myself ... I am like this and everyone else is different?
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All right. You know, I think that basically people don't suffer from
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Karma ...
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or from bad experiences but people suffer from unawareness,
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from the lack of reflectiveness.
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So, for me this is the medicine for everything, yeah.
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Always reflect back to you, whatever happens,
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look back at your own heart
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see what suits you see what doesn't suit you
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and then make your choices in that way, yeah.
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So, don't project on the others, don't look at other people,
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always point the mirror at your own face.
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And then you will see that inside of you and inside of the others is exactly the same thing.
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There is no difference.
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So ...
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the reason that people get
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attached with their opinions and their
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philosophies and their ...
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meaning of things is that they are not aware and they have not created
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a distance between the one who is thinking
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and the one who is watching the thoughts.
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(laughs)
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So, this is for me the main problem.
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And the reason for that is that there are entanglements in the psycho-emotional self.
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So, we have gone through lots of experiences in our past,
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traumatic experiences if you believe only in one life.
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Just think of yourself. There are so many situations in which you got hurt, in which you felt
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vulnerable and you got hurt. So many, many, many situations.
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If you believe in multiple lives, oh my god, it's tremendous! And all of these experiences
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are in the unconscious and they are the driving force in their unconscious.
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They make us do things that we don't want to do.
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So, the voices made me do it, eh?
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This is the problem. This we cannot have. We must start to
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question everything,
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to reflect everything and hopefully then be able to come to a conclusion
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out of the moment out of this moment and not out of a
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long forgotten past. And those of us who practice Reiki we have the beautiful chance
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to work on that by working on the body
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and paying attention while you're working on the body
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because when you're working on the body, you're immediately working on the psycho-emotional self, too, coming back to the
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image of that orange because they are one. The whole package is one and they are interconnected when I touch the body
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I also touch the psycho-emotional self when I heal the body or ...
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not right to say that. When the body heals,
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yeah, also the psycho emotional self heals.
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So, this is one way we can work on it by just doing our self-treatments.
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And another way to do it is to work directly on the psycho-emotional level
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with the second degree Reiki. So, I don't want to get into more detail with it
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but with this you can work on patterns,
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on old habits, on substance or whatever other abuse.
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And that's really, really wonderful to do to disentangle
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all those little things inside that make us suffer
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and we know what they are. We all do.
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It's so easy, you don't need a therapist, you don't need somebody very clever to tell you what it is.
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You know when and how you violate yourself.
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And it's great , eh?
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So, catch yourself when you when you see that you're violating yourself or another.
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Immediately go and look where does this come from.
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And work on it.
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And that way you can starve these patterns to death if you don't feed them.
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So, first ... the first thing is ...
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awareness! You must be aware of the fact that you're doing it.
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Yeah? That's why I said initially people don't suffer from ...
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basically from karma, but they suffer from their unawareness.
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So, the first thing is: we must be aware, we must be watchful.
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And then catch the patterns when they come up and work on them.
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And not follow them.
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You know, as you spoke, it reminded me of one of the what many people call a 'golden rule':
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"Don't do upon others what you don't want to be done to yourself."
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Or also, and this is ...
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in many thoughts, in many practices - be that spiritual practices or psychoanalysis or whatever -
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the question of putting yourself in the shoes of the other
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because, as you said, we know what hurts us and where we do damage upon ourselves
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and if we empathize with the other, that he is going through the same emotion,
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I think that is almost like half of the solution, if not more than half of the solution.
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Definitely. The lack, I think, is really that people
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experience, many people experience themselves as an individual, a separate individual.
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So, it's me and then it's you, René. You are there I am here.
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This is my sweater, my house, my wife, my kids, my motorcycle, my, my, my, my, my.
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So, I’m very focused on the ...
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the ego centeredness of the whole thing.
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But the moment that I go deeply into the self
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in meditation or in Reiki, the moment I go deeply into it I realize that
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there is nothing there.
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It's just spaciousness.
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I think I remember that you've been to Africa also.
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I went to Africa several times and one of the most amazing experiences for me was
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this vast open spaces. There's nothing, no people, no thought process anywhere.
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And the only thing I could think of that comes close to that silence
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is the silence in your own heart when you're meditating when you're quiet.
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Yeah? And if you have experienced that
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then you realize that this space inside is what we all share.
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That is the same in each and every one of us. There's no difference between
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(chuckles)
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my silence and your silence. How can there be?
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It's the same. It's exactly the same and once you know that sameness,
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then all the differences disappear and all the boundaries disappear in between people.
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And this is why I like Reiki so much because when you're giving treatments or receiving treatments,
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that's exactly what happens, the boundaries between people just vanishes. Yeah?
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When you touch somebody after maybe 10-15 minutes you don't even know anymore what is your hand and what is the ...
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the body of the other, because you have melted, your energy bodies are so close together,
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you have melted and mingled together and you disappear. Beautiful, eh?
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When you disappear into the other you realize that
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there is no difference.
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Yeah.
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And things change.
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It's ...
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I did a little bit of reading up on you, of course, in preparation for this conversation and I went to your website.
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I learned there why 'Fire Reiki' is called - your first ...
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game-changing and historic, very important for the Reiki community and for the development of Reiki as a whole -
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why you called that book 'Fire Reiki'.
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It has exactly to do with what you just said, hasn't it?
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Yeah, that's how I ... experience it.
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It burns down all the separation all the singularity ...
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...
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not singularity. Duality! And makes it all just one.
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Yeah, beautiful, eh?
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And also it burns down ...
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what we talked about earlier the psycho-emotional entanglements.
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But we need to practice awareness.
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This is one of the things that I always say to my students when you give treatments,
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be as acutely aware as possible!
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you hear everything,
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you see everything that is happening in this moment,
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you sense everything. Yeah?
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All the senses are on full alert not concentrated
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just present.
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Because this is what we've got. We've got the birds singing outside. We've got the truck going by.
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We got the feeling in the body, the temperature, everything that is happening in this moment.
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When you become aware of everything that's happening,
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your own breath coming in and out,
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then (!), the transformation is there.
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Great Arjava, we've covered quite a bit of distance already in this conversation.
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I have a few more thoughts and topics.
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They won't have space here and now.
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So, I need to speak to you again sometime in the future.
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Not necessarily still this year but finally ... you know, in our last conversation
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we ...
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stumbled ... or I stumbled across something
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because you mentioned corona also as a chance.
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I stumbled on the commonality between Corona and chance and that's the 'c' at the beginning.
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So, that's the note I made for myself
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in our conversation last time
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and I would like the little bit of time which we still have
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to talk to you a little bit about this particular chance in today's time if that is okay with you?
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Yeah, wonderful.
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So, basically you know, I ...
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I’m a reflective kind of person. So, whatever happens in my life I look at it and I ...
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ask myself what can I learn from this situation instead of struggling with
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what's happening and saying, no I don't want this, no I want it to be different.
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I prefer to just look at, okay, listen we are here
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and we are here on earth to learn otherwise we wouldn't be here.
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So, might as well learn something from the situation. And one of the things that I noticed very quickly,
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and that started actually before Corona,
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is that ...
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all that is under the surface in the unconscious seems to
be coming out
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collectively more intensely.
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It started with the political situation in the U.S. that was very obvious
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dividing the people into
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this group and that group.
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It was coming out with the vengeance. And with Corona it's the same. The Corona brings out
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all the things that are under the surface,
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brings them out on the table, so we can look at them. So, if you're afraid it will bring out your fear.
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If you are angry will bring out your anger. If your discontent with the government will bring out that.
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If you have a problem with your wife there you go.
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Yeah? It brings everything out. For that it's great.
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Plus: now we have the time, or many of us have the time,
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to actually do something about that and to look at it.
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So, the first thing is we are here to learn, so, might as well.
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(garbled)
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And now look, whatever there is in the subconscious that needs to be
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understood, needs to be digested, when it' needs to be integrated,
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will come out whether it's "good" in coordination quotation marks
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or bad. So, if it's fear it will come out.
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But also if it's unethical it will come out, too. And everybody
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including you and me and all of our listeners
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we will somehow try to
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turn this into an advantage ...
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for us. This situation.
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(laughs)
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That can be in many ways. It could be financial, it could be
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whatever, yeah? On any on any level. So, Corona is a chance!
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I have lots of time. I usually don't.
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I usually travel maybe six months out of the year. So, now I’ve got lots of time that I can deal with
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things that I haven't been able to deal with until now, maybe some habits that I can
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work on, patterns that I can work on,
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personal stuff that I can work on. It's wonderful.
0:30:41.120,0:30:46.954
And I of course know that you're also writing on a book. Would you like to say a word or two
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or is that the bad omen speaking about a work of art which hasn't been released yet?
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(laughs bashfully)
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This is a funny ...
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(René interrupts:) Sorry, sorry.
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No, no, this is a funny situation, yeah. So ...
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The whole publishing story has changed a lot over the past few years. So,
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if you had asked me the same question 15 years ago
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I would say, I’m not going to tell you the title of the book and I’m not going to tell you anything about it
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until it's published. Now is different because now
0:31:31.923,0:31:34.372
everybody can publish things quickly
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over the internet themselves and now I’m in that same situation. So, I just wrote a book.
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It will have the title: three dots and then 'is' and then three dots (...is...).
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It's all about being in the present living in the present.
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And the word Reiki appears, I think, for the first time on page 154 or something
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and only once. So it's not about Reiki,
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it's about leading a happy content life and being present, being in the moment.
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So that's my latest project and I think we will have it available next week.
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Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful.
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Unfortunately it will take me many weeks until we release this.
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But by the time our viewers are seeing this
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maybe the book will be already available on the market and we will include it in the description.
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We're coming to an end, Arjava. We touched ... we used the metaphor of a knot
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for our conversation. We spoke about, for example, the illusion of separateness
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And one other illusion which fascinated me and continues to fascinate me is
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how often we humans think
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that problems are really unsolvable and big and difficult
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when sometimes it's actually very easy.
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And one easy way of solving many, many problems is what we're doing right now talk to each other.
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I learned a little bit of Crochet from my wife yesterday
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and to unravel a Crochet is the simplest thing! (I hope this works now.)
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You just pull it
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and you will end up unravelled.
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So, maybe solutions are easier than we think.
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Thank you very much, Arjava. I’m going to say to my good-bye to my viewers.
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And I would like you to wait for a moment still.
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Thank you very much, Arjava.
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Thank you.
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Bye-bye.
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So, dear viewers I thank you for watching.
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