What you’ll hear in this episode:

- Why intuition and consciousness are moving from the margins into the mainstream

- The difference between intellect-driven living and heart-led perception

- How meditation, breathwork, and stillness unlock intuition and creativity

- What children practicing intuition reveal about human potential

- Non-local consciousness, perception beyond the five senses, and lived evidence

- Documentary filmmaking as service: telling stories that catalyze personal and social change

- Creativity as a universal human trait, not a special talent

- How fear contracts awareness while love expands it

- The relationship between technology, AI, and human consciousness

- Why a heart-centered awakening may be essential to humanity’s future

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About Love Conquers Fear:

In an era of exponentially evolving AI and robotics, one question looms: Will humanity make it? Love Conquers Fear is where leadership meets love, technology serves humanity, and vision becomes action. Host, Brett Alexander Hurt, tech entrepreneur and investor, sits down with some of the world’s most influential people to ask: Will we unite to create the Age of Abundance for All? These conversations are calls to action, awakening leaders everywhere to rise and help humanity choose the Light.

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About Michael Collins:

Michael Collins is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker, the founder of documentary production company Thoughtful Robot, and a member of the Mountainfilm festival’s board of directors. Across more than two decades of filmmaking, Michael has paired rigorous storytelling with impact campaigns designed to create real-world change. His work spans investigative journalism, human rights, veterans’ issues, and consciousness, with films that have screened at major festivals worldwide and aired nationally on PBS. Michael’s feature documentaries include Give Up Tomorrow, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and helped expose a wrongful conviction on death row, and Almost Sunrise, an Emmy-nominated film exploring veteran suicide, healing, and resilience. His current work explores intuition, creativity, and consciousness as fundamental aspects of human experience.

Timestamps:

00:00 Episode preview

00:55 Episode opening

02:06 Rafting 277 miles through the Grand Canyon with no electronics

05:49 Listening to signs from the other side

11:11 A 13-minute film segment about intuition

16:59 A child moves an object with her mind

20:19 Blindfolded kids and intuition

27:23 The Telepathy Tapes and hope from non-speaking children

34:47 Processed food and the quiet hijacking of our bodies

42:57 Getting out of the head and into the heart through breath

45:56 A spiritual teacher and the problem of the noisy mind

49:06 A breathing practice that changed everything

50:06 Quitting a job and flying to the Philippines to make his first film

55:05 The making of Give Up Tomorrow

56:43 Dharma: service, art, and community

59:16 Showing up every day and listening to the calls

01:08:45 Practice until it becomes your nature

01:11:41 Spirituality isn’t hiding

01:13:52 Life as lessons and karma

01:17:31 A hot shower as a time machine

01:22:46 Why creativity can’t be replaced by AI

01:25:37 An ancient Chinese script

01:29:11 Staying present instead of outsourcing the edit

01:32:56 Rick Rubin on creativity, intuition, and AI

01:37:36 Making a film about intuition means practicing intuition

Books mentioned in this episode:

- The Celestine Prophecy — James Redfield

- Signs — Laura Lynne Jackson

- The Seat of the Soul — Gary Zukav

- Into the Magic Shop — James R. Doty

- The Creative Act — Rick Rubin