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

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