Your Mind Is Innocent. It's Doing What You Asked.
That morning in the shower, it landed for Michael: gratitude for the mind, as an innocent. The mind is the one beating you up, telling you you're unworthy, creating the shit show of your life. And it is doing a perfect job. It gets a gold star.
The usual answer is "screw you, mind," which is just the mind attacking itself. The knife cannot cut itself. You can't think your way out, because everything you believe is based on partial truths, falsehoods and conditioning. The only way out is direct experience of the mechanic of creation.
In agile teams, Michael learned this: when you are the product owner and the team builds what you asked for and it isn't working, you don't blame the team. You thank them, because they built what you asked for. Then you build something different. With the mind, you are the product owner. As source consciousness, you said yes to The Deviation, yes to the mind experiencing separation. There is no bad guy mind. It is giving you exactly what you asked for. Michael calls it "the great hero of our deviated experience," with the Academy Award and the Nobel Peace Prize in all categories.
Everything built so far is built from an absence of love. Why not create in love? It's not that easy, Audree says; thinking "I'll create in love now" doesn't get you there. You have to look at the impact and the consequences, and feel it, and see it 100%. If you're not feeling like shit, you're not deep enough. And to anyone feeling it right now: "You didn't do anything wrong. We just forgot what and who we are on purpose."
The day before, in a session with the Shii, Michael got to the first step of AA: my life is unmanageable. Awareness that deep is the sprint review. "I'm the one who created that request. Wow, mind, let's look at the consequence of that. Do we still wanna keep on doing this?" For Michael, that is the pivot.
The pain is the mind trying to give you the signals: "Hey, can we do something about this situation, 'cause it ain't working so well."
00:00 Evolution Is Messy
The usual answer is "screw you, mind," which is just the mind attacking itself. The knife cannot cut itself. You can't think your way out, because everything you believe is based on partial truths, falsehoods and conditioning. The only way out is direct experience of the mechanic of creation.
In agile teams, Michael learned this: when you are the product owner and the team builds what you asked for and it isn't working, you don't blame the team. You thank them, because they built what you asked for. Then you build something different. With the mind, you are the product owner. As source consciousness, you said yes to The Deviation, yes to the mind experiencing separation. There is no bad guy mind. It is giving you exactly what you asked for. Michael calls it "the great hero of our deviated experience," with the Academy Award and the Nobel Peace Prize in all categories.
Everything built so far is built from an absence of love. Why not create in love? It's not that easy, Audree says; thinking "I'll create in love now" doesn't get you there. You have to look at the impact and the consequences, and feel it, and see it 100%. If you're not feeling like shit, you're not deep enough. And to anyone feeling it right now: "You didn't do anything wrong. We just forgot what and who we are on purpose."
The day before, in a session with the Shii, Michael got to the first step of AA: my life is unmanageable. Awareness that deep is the sprint review. "I'm the one who created that request. Wow, mind, let's look at the consequence of that. Do we still wanna keep on doing this?" For Michael, that is the pivot.
The pain is the mind trying to give you the signals: "Hey, can we do something about this situation, 'cause it ain't working so well."
00:00 Evolution Is Messy
00:55 Identity Trap
03:14 Matrix Awakening
04:40 Mind Creates Reality
07:10 Poverty Metaphor
10:03 Awareness Reprogramming
11:44 Ownership Versus Victimhood
17:51 Fractal Deepening
18:45 Mind Cannot Fix Mind
22:29 Origin of Separation
24:16 Gratitude for the Mind
25:21 Creating in Love
27:30 Sixth Phase Love Mechanics
28:43 Mind as Innocent Hero
29:51 Real Gratitude Power
32:39 Teaching What We Learn
34:12 Addiction and Mind Grooves
39:03 Humanity in Recovery
39:46 AA Surrender and Awareness
42:07 Feeling Pain to Clear
47:33 Free Tools and Courses
51:17 Use the Podcast as Practice
53:01 Why Courses Need Grounding
55:26 Closing Mantra and Farewell
Creators and Guests
Host
Audree Tara Sahota
I was born with mystical gifts I learned to hide from a world that wasn't ready, the weird kid teaching Samadhi at slumber parties while trying to make sense of being different. Almost a decade in formal healing training, a graduate of the Barbara Brennan Collage of Healing. Five years on a Chicago medical team, healing what Western medicine couldn't touch. In 2009 I received Evolutionary Energetics, yet discovering it and embodying it are completely different. I've done the messy work: dissolved my ego, healed my deepest patterns, trusted guidance I couldn't see when everything rational screamed not to. I'm not a guru with all the answers. I'm a real person who happened to be born remembering cosmic truth, walked the uncomfortable path of living it, and learned how to make it practical.
Host
Michael K Sahota
Raised with logic and science, I started as the ultimate skeptic. In my AI PhD program, I discovered that human vision and cognition is controlled hallucination; we literally make up reality. After years in software architecture and management roles leading organizational transformations, the pattern became clear: the consciousness of the leader creates culture, culture creates outcomes. I hit the truth: I was the limiting factor in every change initiative. Meeting Audree transformed everything as our opposite approaches unlocked something extraordinary. Through 100+ leadership trainings, we didn't create this work, we received it, download by download, in an unfolding evolutionary process. I've done the messy work: learned to trust direct experience over logic, followed guidance that made no rational sense. I'm not a guru with all the answers. My passion is the mechanics of creation. I'm the bridge between worlds, translating cosmic downloads into step-by-step practical tools.
