it's really the those moments when we step out of our own way and something really comes through us that displays and genius that it's not really  being that small and dancing and that which comes through us has an evolutionary effect on everything so you could say albert einstein was radically brilliant to the moment when the general theory of relativity came into focus but he was lying in the bath tub with happened he wasn't working hard to do something he was relaxing and something came through and there are many many examples of people who just there's a moment when something just flows and that something indicates to us an intelligent much bigger than what we think of this personally based on your response then should we just relax to become radically brilliant in a way that's part of it absolutely that having having not just like relaxation when you check out but having a certain kind of relaxation which is a relaxation that is alert and present that is certainly part of it radically radical brilliance we've come to discover is the confluence of four different forces which have separate values so that's where it's somewhat confusing because for things coming together for things co existing which appear to be in office intuition to each other you can think of a parallel in health you know what is the health what do you need to be healthy well you need to go to the bathroom every day if you don't go to the bathroom you know accumulate too much talks in your body but health is not just about that it's also about eating good food so you put the food in you take it out there's a opposite thing you see that you could say well health is about getting enough rest but if you stay in bed all day you w deal with the obstacles to brilliance write a sense something about that sure you know my friend could blaxxun who is one of the most radically brilliant people i know he was kind enough to write before into this book and in the forward he said we're all born brilliant of the and the the the vision it's not so much how to be brilliant it's a it's a map which shows us how we block brilliance so once you understand these four cycles there are actually four you can say for styles of resisting for ways that we resist brilliance one is addiction we get addicted to one part of the cycle and we want to just keep going and keep going in that part of the cycle at the expense of the rest of the cycle the other form of resistance is judgment where we develop a value set or a mindset that judges are part of the cycle and therefore it withers and dies another form of resistance is what we call aspiration resistance where you get into a habit where you really nine is about relaxing letting go forgiving yourself for mistakes you know as in terms of brain chemistry as the movement from your adrenaline to gather well people who get who have aspiration resistance in six nine they say oh wow you're going for a way for the weekend that's so smart of you i want to take a break soon as well but they never do they just say they aspire to rest in but they never get around to it or somebody could aspire to starting a book but they never get around to it so these are forms of aspiring to something resisting at the same time and the last kind of resistance we call looping where you become a specialist you got a specialist in one area of the cycle but you really shut down the rest that really inspired you to write this i didn't interfere with it and so you know the story is this that i had a car accident a little more than two years ago a really bad car accident i mean the kind of karaka accident where if you saw the car after the accident you would say there's no way that guy survived because i mean the whole front of the car was crumpled in and logically i should be sitting here today also when this accident happened i was driving in the middle lane of the freeway you know so that was causing the left in cars on the right that the accident happened and then the next thing i knew was i was in the middle of the grass on the middle of the freeway between the t directions i don't know how i got there i was unconscious in the middle so this is all a bit of a miracle and i thought actually open the door and stood up and got out of the car and i was just like oh you know i was asking people are they ok and i'm going to don't move because i blood move for about three months i just i just lay in bed just staring at the c n n i was like i was stunned i couldn't move and that kind of stopped it stopped my life i could just stare out of the window at this of the trees outside of our bedroom window and during this time rather like a jigsaw puzzle little fragments just show themselves and really i guess in stopping like that the question really was just there i wasn't i wasn't doing anything but the questions just kept being there was like what is what is a good use of a life you know what is a good use of the rest of my life what is an intelligent use of the remaining decades i have to live and it was clear i was running exclude a point which was quite successful school but it was just clear that it was clear that i was going to have regret when i died you know so this question came up well you say that was it but in the book either talk about the fact that brilliance comes through or not everyone is paying attention to yeah right so talk about that i mean how do you know which voice to listen to or which path to follow greg well you know in the last couple of years for the first time in my life i started to grow my own food and my wife and i we both grew up in cities so we have not grown food before so i got started i made as a line of my finger a sprinkle carrot seeds cover them over you know and then after ten days the little tiny green shoots come up very excited so i had spent every day in the garden and going around singing to the plants you know k'naan watering them make usually get sun you know just very much focused on these babies and my wife had not been so involved in this process so after about ten days ago this issue i think can now come out and see so she came out to look at our budding vegetables joel grey and she took a step backwards managed to save them but so the question would come well you know why did that happen because she had not been spending as much time in the garden so she didn't really there was lots of things there a lot it was weak she didn't know the difference between the wheat and the carrots and i knew the bubbles up a tiny impulse and if you can learn to pay attention to that and to feed it with attention it grows it becomes more pronounced and then it becomes music or it becomes words or it becomes an idea where it becomes a social innovation it becomes something new and then if you can capture it without distorting it through should and shouldn't it becomes brilliance and that's really that's a certain kind of technology and consciousness which we've now capsulated in this in this this understanding of radical brain so the key is to be able to differentiate between of thought which is just that the mind can stop and that's just one thing precipitates another and actually a shoot coming out of nothing coming out of nowhere i have to challenge you just a bit because there are lots of brilliant people with whom i talked and many have often killed great ideas because they have a voice in their head that says this couldn't possibly be a good idea look at the idea that you did last week with the idea and they've torn up their work or ripped up their music and i agree yeah so what's happening there so three six and nine so twelve to three is where this these impulses come absolutely right in what you say they get blocked by latent beliefs held in consciousness latent points of view so one would be no one's going to listen to me it's all been done before i'm not good enough who i am nobody these are all latent beliefs so that these shoots it's like a ship coming and then it hits concrete or something you know it's like a i don't know it's like a it's like a shoot in the ground that the trite a piece of grass that tries to get to the surface but it hits something so it's part of radical brilliance is being able to recognize these latent beliefs and to let go can you speak more personally about that do you have any of these thoughts that come up or when you were laying there did you have any of those doubt thought yeah we all do you know we all want to it's part of a collective and we all have very similar doubts thoughts that we think that personal you know when we think i'm not good enough we think that's a very personal feeling actually everybody thinks than good enough everybody thinks no one will listen to them and everyone thinks you know we all have these latent thoughts as part of the collective and really the key is you could say ninety nine percent of the work is just awareness just recognizing that that is just that's just an automatic pattern doesn't mean i don't have to be  you feel like there is a brilliant impulses trying to emerge through you if you feel somehow that you can be a vehicle for the evolution of humanity actually the most important step that i believe you can take is to get coached or get mentored it's just that makes all the difference in the world to be in a relationship with someone who can hold space  and encourage you and help you to question what is really healthy valid conclusion and what is just the sabotaging mechanisms of the mind so even before practice having someone to help you determine practice is even more important now in terms of practice you know what i mean by practice is any state changing activity which is done consciously so exercise next sense is a practice because it changes your state meditation is a practice is it calms and opens your mind sex is a practice because it changes your state i know it's a good example you could have sex for pleasure you could have sex to make babies or you could have sex to become brilliant that's that you could use almost anything as a practice are you going to get a lot of viewers with that statement what do you mean you can have sex to be more brilliant a hug rafiq and i'd be on your radio you can be ok so just about any activity honestly any i mean for things you eat the supplements you take the time you go to bed the time you wake up everything in your life can become a vehicle for brillian it can become something that blocks brain so just take sex as an example see so you could have sex simply because you feel horny and you want to kind of dissipate that built up energy in the genitals and if you do that particularly for a memory of being a woman so i don't know from personal experience was that what women tell me is that also there are ways that that sex sexual arousal can stay very much concentration the critters or it can expand more are roused and flowing and that's a different way of having sex you see but it's not just a different way functionally of having sex is a different motivation for having sex you're having sex really the entire sex your act is a foreplay for making love to the world through your art through your music for your social innovations through your political activities whatever making love is just foreplay for the bigger making love to the world that's just one example we can take level of craziness that seems to accompany brilliance is this is there some correlation there well there is there is definitely sometimes a level of craziness that accompanies crude what we call creativity although i would like to suggest that that that that image of a kind of crazy artist or you know the kind of crazed artist or suffering artist is actually dissipated quite a lot in my experience in the last few decades as we've seen the infusion of spiritual practice into western culture but it means that people can open to very expansive states of consciousness but without that kind of right ending horror often used to accomplish it used to be that being very creative was at the expense of the whole person that's not so much to upgrade our image of the artist a little bit in the light of that but also creativity and brilliance i think we need to separate them out so creativity in our cycle and maybe we want to take a moment to to define the phase of the cycle but in our humanity so for example linus pauling who i mean definitely discovering the therapeutic benefits of you know the necessity of vitamin c to human diet but also the therapeutic benefits of he game forever in terms of global connectivity of knowledge however i don't know there are artists who put pigs in from out of the hide and display them that's kind of art but it's maybe a little more difficult to see how that really upgrades the quality of life for very good i'm not saying it doesn't i'm just saying it's a little bit more of a stretch so we need a little bit of a distinction between because art can be can't be very expressive of darkness are can be very expressive who have rage art can be a way of giving expression to collective feelings but it's not necessarily part of the evolutionary movement of us all moving from kind of base animal aspect of our natures into the more to the highest possibilities of human potential i want to go from here to what you accomplished given the scope of the subject you came up with a model a metaphor a structure so go back into this for us and make sure that we come away with understanding you know clark sure sure well i am very happy that is our son slightly language which is important i wouldn't i don't experience the i did anything the the what in terms of what we usually call i and you know we use this word i a lot of course it doesn't really have a fixed definition you can't you know you can say well you know this is this is hand and this is nos and this is the eyes of quite a quite a vague word you know so what we often mean by our eyes a concentrated sense of individuality has certain opinions and beliefs and likes and dislikes and it is therefore defined as separate from other eyes so that localized sense of me which we all have that was not really cane through a little gap in the story vi because the eye was rendered dysfunctional for a little while so that this cycle could reveal itself and that's true for a lot of important things that happen where somebody has something to offer it's more like they step aside and something comes through so that's just one for distinction in terms of the cycle itself you can think of it like a clock so twelve o'clock at the top you've got what we could call awakening those are moments of transcend stopping point is creative flow full on just things flowing through you up all night automatic writing playing music or just having a lot of ideas but it's coming through you very fast that's different from awakening awakening is more like meditative that's this is very flowing and it's so twelve o'clock is the domain of spirituality three o'clock is the end of creativity six o'clock is the domain of accomplishment it's where we get things done we operate within boundaries we have budgets deadlines agreements contracts and that's a very different feeling you're working with in time and boundaries and finally nine o'clock is the place of learning and humility it's where you become fully c three to six is from intentional intention is actually a creative act belongs of three but intention is the beginning of the journey of accomplishment it starts with intention and then it becomes making promises making plans making agreements doing what you said you do distill that discipline that face that brings you to six six o'clock is when are you making decisions and one of the key things is because you have to make decisions you're also responsible personally the result of those decisions so called double bind because you have to make a decision and you are responsible for the outcome eventual you get to the point where whichever decision you make going to feel some regret either you burn yourself out and burn someone else out hold something that you want to apologize so this is the movement from self doubt to self acceptance and this is a lot happens in there that's where you learn things we forgive yourself we make amends where you make different plans we integrate from learning and that's how you actually that's how the quality of your activity increases you see that six and i finally in the time your confusion completely humble you feel you know i'm i do my best from a very limited monkey you know i am not perfect and so nine to twelve now is actually the journey of spiritual activity where you move from humility into surrender you move from please lord help me oh please divine mother help me to actually merging with what you think of as the divine so those are for movements and really you are always somewhere in any moment you are somewhere in one of those four movements but also we can see that somewhere in one of those four cycles or four quadrants as we end this conversation what is your wish for humanity obviously you are driven to offer this wisdom through you what is your wish to step aside and to allow something which has made itself clear to me but to allow something that is benevolent and intelligent and humorous to have its way with us and vast which you could say is perhaps the collective perhaps it's you know i high have expression perhaps it's thought a don't know but when that with that can have its way through us when that c