The Lab of Life: Recent Episodes
Tom Griffin
In these podcasts i conduct thought experiments.
I'm curious about what happens when modern empirical science meets the ancient intuitive wisdom of the eastern philosophies. I explore both these worlds through the lens of similarities rather than differences, looking for the simple truths of what it takes to enjoy a live well lived.
Along the way i'll be building an Instruction manual for extraordinary human achievement with pages full of insights, tools and techniques that we can all use to achieve those things we want for ourselves in our lives.
Welcome to The Lab of Life.
In this deep dive guided reflection we take a wander through subconscious fields of thoughts and see the shadow shapes of memories, blowing in the breeze.
It is a tale that leads all the way through to the future you, reflecting back on a wonderful life beautifully lived.
It is a most magnificent reunion. A meeting of minds across a life of extraordinary achievements.
What a story!
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Beyond the heavy hard edge of meaning that barricades the road…
Beyond fields of fixed perspectives, and their paths that loose their way…
There is a place of not knowing.
That’s where we’re going.
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In this story for your subconscious mind, let's walk together to the clearing space between the conscious and subconscious mind.
Find yourself a quite space where you wont be disturbed for the next 7 minutes, put on some headphones and allow yourself to relax.
Let go of the need to know, or make too much meaning of the words you will hear, and allow yourself to disappear into the space between the words... the space beyond thought.
It is the infinitely peaceful place found at the meeting point of time and the timeless.
Enjoy.
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When we have the courage to go into and through the tough times, intimately in amongst the meaning making stories that made them up, we cross the event horizon.
We come to know what Shakespeare meant when he had Hamlet say "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so”.
Awareness falls away from far ahead, and rests instead on the lake shore line of the anything is possible place.
And from there, all the clouds that had for so long darkened our skies, become what they have always really been... merely vapour.
And in this lighting up we see, all of the resources we could ever need, come rainbowing down from within those most challenging of times.
It is a vast place of peace.
In this story for your subconscious mind, I will take you there.
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"Its dawn before day, as purpled night skies give way this new lighting up.
The blurring light shapes the shade of this awaking, as if a new masterpiece… in the moment of its making."
Find yourself a quite place where you won't be disturbed, put on some headphones, and let me share with you this story for your subconscious mind.
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Let me take you on a journey into your own Model of the World, in this deep dive guided reflection.
Find yourself a quite place where you won't be disturbed, and let go of the need to make meaning of the words you will here. Simply allow yourself to drift into subconscious fields of thought... and my voice will go with you.
In this Deep Dive, we are going to travel into and through that which most of us, most often, turn from and run.
The challenges, and obstacles, frustrations and fears that lay siege to peace we seek to find.
It is a path whose twisting turning beauty all too easily confuses the lonely traveller, cause them to turn away and stay stuck in the same old way, again and again.
But on this journey we’ll have each other for company along the way.
So find a quiet place where you wont be disturbed for 10 minutes or so, put on some headphones and let's walk together side by side, all the way to the other side of suffering.
It is such a surprising beautiful journey.
This piece is in many ways a deeply personal love letter to myself as creative celebration of my rise from the ashes of a very less than life.
If you would like to explore more of my work pop over the The Lab of Life.
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CAUTION: This piece creatively references in an impicit (not explicit) way, childhood trauma and abuse.
This short guided meditation thought experiment takes just a couple of minutes, but in those minutes it will travel beyond the world out there, beyond yourself, and into an experience of being the witnessing presence that is consciousness itself.
As you experience the guided reflection, let got of trying to make conscious meaning of the words you'll hear. Simply find a comfortable place where you won't be disturbed for 10 minutes, and allow yourself to float into the space between the words that you will here. Let go of what you make things mean, and allow what's underneath to become the scene.
A story for the subconscious mind.
In this deep dive guided reflection, we journey through the surface of the material world, to explore the limitless source that lies beneath… the pure potential of abundance.
And from there you will see, that up among the outcomes, as real as things seem, they are shadow play light beams, dancing life into mornings dawning mist.
These deep dive guided reflections are a lovely way to start the day, or to drift off into deeply relaxing sleep.
So… find yourself a quite space where you won’t be disturbed for 10 minutes, put on some headphones… and relax.
I hope that you enjoy the experience.
And if you do, please feel free to share it with others.
Have a lovely day.
Tom
So now, in your imaginings, Let soft awareness settle, On the man-made meaning of things, And skim across, their superficial surface layer skins.
Beyond even that lonely edificial tree Which as a sapling grew, beliefs to cloud your view, Of the meadow your adolescent feet sought to path, Their stumbling way through.
Let’s take a walk along this forest path. Through the blurred bright beams that bleach the scene, until the forest gleams with heroic detail.
What would it be like to be able to learn and develop is a way that works much faster and goes much deeper than anything your conscious mind could possibly compete with?
In this guided reflection take a journey into the genesis of your own Learning Superstate.
There is one way of being that will free you from the emotional and mental turmoil we feel when the big stuff happens in our lives.
This Deep Dive Thought Experiment will take you there.
Letter From The Lab
Every two weeks I share a new thought experiments as videos (and as these 'Deep Dive' podcasts). If you'd like to receive these as I release them you can subscribe to 'Letters from the Lab'.
RESOURCES & LINKS
Thought Experiment Video: 13. The Circle of Compassion
Letter From The Lab
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[Warning - Please don't listen to Deep Dive podcasts if you are driving or are not in a place where you feel relaxed and safe!]
"Enjoy the little things in life, because one day you'll realise that they are the big things."
This Robert Brault quote turns the parochial into the phenomenal, taking you right into a richer, deeper experience of life and living.
Because when you become a 'Noticer', the delicacy of difference that makes up the world we inhabit, reveals to us all just how beautiful, a life well lived can be.
Letter From The Lab
Every two weeks I share a new thought experiments as videos (and as these 'Deep Dive' podcasts). If you'd like to receive these as I release them you can subscribe to 'Letters from the Lab'.
RESOURCES & LINKS
Thought Experiment Video: 12. Become A Noticer
Letter From The Lab
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[Warning - Please don't listen to Deep Dive podcasts if you are driving or are not in a place where you feel relaxed and safe!]
You know what its like when you pick up a novel that you last read a few weeks back and you can't remember much about it until... BAM.
You read one sentence and the whole thing comes flooding back in full detail.
In the Thought Experiment video, Accessing The Library,Accessing The Library we use that amazing capability to access your own life stories. Because those stories contain resources that can help you with the challenges and opportunities to face today.
In this Deep Dive you get to remind yourself what you already know, but don't know you know... how to get there!
Letter From The Lab
Every two weeks I share a new thought experiments as videos (and as these 'Deep Dive' podcasts). If you'd like to receive these as I release them you can subscribe to 'Letters from the Lab'.
RESOURCES & LINKS
Thought Experiment Video: 11. Accessing The Library
Letter From The Lab
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[Warning - Please don't listen to Deep Dive podcasts if you are driving or are not in a place where you feel relaxed and safe!]
What is the purpose of purpose?
Why is it there? Why was it selected for as an evolutionary trait, from the very beginning of conscious life on this planet?
More importantly how can knowing the answer to those questions enable you to enjoy a life well lived today?
In this Deep Dive Thought Experiment we journey right back beyond even our primal origins, in search of the genesis of all their is.
Letter From The Lab
Every two weeks I share a new thought experiments as videos (and as these 'Deep Dive' podcasts). If you'd like to receive these as I release them you can subscribe to 'Letters from the Lab'.
RESOURCES & LINKS
Thought Experiment Video: 10. The Purpose of Purpose
Letter From The Lab
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[Warning - Please don't listen to Deep Dive podcasts if you are driving or are not in a place where you feel relaxed and safe!]
In every moment of everyday there are golden nuggets.
Insights and tools, born of experience gained through the living of life. You'll find them in the stories of what you did and didn't do. They are behind and beneath what you made those stories mean.
Take a Deep Dive into you own subconscious processing and let the what you see, in the what you did, become the very thing you need.
Letter From The Lab
Every two weeks I share a new thought experiments as videos (and as these 'Deep Dive' podcasts). If you'd like to receive these as I release them you can subscribe to 'Letters from the Lab'.
RESOURCES & LINKS
Thought Experiment Video: 9. Golden Nuggets
Letter From The Lab
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[Warning - Please don't listen to Deep Dive podcasts if you are driving or are not in a place where you feel relaxed and safe!]
Imagine that deeply inside you, a vast library waits to be discovered. A library full of all the resources you ever used in achieving those things you have.
Now imagine that you know how to find that library and select from it, the exact resource you need right now to rise to the challenges and opportunities that are in front of you right now.
What difference would that make? Here's an opportunity to take a deep dive into that library and get curious about what you will discover there?
Letter From The Lab
Every two weeks I share a new thought experiments as videos (and as these 'Deep Dive' podcasts). If you'd like to receive these as I release them you can subscribe to 'Letters from the Lab'.
RESOURCES & LINKS
Thought Experiment Video: 8. Library of Resources
Letter From The Lab
www.thelaboflife.ORG
[Warning - Please don't listen to Deep Dive podcasts if you are driving or are not in a place where you feel relaxed and safe!]
What memory of the future would you create for yourself if, in making it, you could then make it come true?
In this Thought Experiment you get to explore a fascinating insight; the brain can't tell the difference between a past memory and a powerfully vivified future one, and so responds in the same way!
How could knowing this help you create for yourself the future you would love to live?
Letter From The Lab
Every two weeks I share a new thought experiments as videos (and as these 'Deep Dive' podcasts). If you'd like to receive these as I release them you can subscribe to 'Letters from the Lab'.
RESOURCES & LINKS
Thought Experiment Video: 7. A Future Memory
Letter From The Lab
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[Warning - Please don't listen to Deep Dive podcasts if you are driving or are not in a place where you feel relaxed and safe!]
If you held in your hand the Instruction Manual for extraordinary human achievement, what would you use it for?
In this thought experiment we take a deep dive into the underlying codes and algorithms that make up the living experience we call our daily lives.
Letter From The Lab
Each week I share a new thought experiments either as videos or podcasts). If you would like to receive these as I release them you can subscribe to 'Letters from the Lab'.
RESOURCES & LINKS
Thought Experiment Video: 5. Controlled Hallucination
Letter From The Lab
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[Warning - Please don't listen to Deep Dive podcasts if you are driving or are not in a place where you feel relaxed and safe!]
Take a Deep Dive into your own perpetual stream of controlled hallucinations. Let the shadow play of recollection dapple old memories with new meaning.
In this Thought Experiment we travel into the underneath of everything, to the subtext that gives rise to what we call our reality.
Letter From The Lab
Each week I share a new thought experiments either as videos or podcasts). If you would like to receive these as I release them you can subscribe to 'Letters from the Lab'.
RESOURCES & LINKS
Thought Experiment Video: 5. Controlled Hallucination
Letter From The Lab
www.thelaboflife.ORG
[Warning - Please don't listen to Deep Dive podcasts if you are driving or are not in a place where you feel relaxed and safe!]
In this Deep Dive Thought Experiment, we let go of holding on to the world as our senses perceive it, and journey instead through our Model of the World.
It is here that you become the author of the world as you experience it. So what story might you tell, if you could tell any... and have it come true?
Letter From The Lab
Each week I share a new thought experiments either as videos or podcasts). If you would like to receive these as I release them you can subscribe to 'Letters from the Lab'.
RESOURCES & LINKS
Thought Experiment Video: 4. Model of the World
Letter From The Lab
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[Warning - Please don't listen to Deep Dive podcasts if you are driving or are not in a place where you feel relaxed and safe!]
In this Deep Dive thought experiment take a subconscious journey along the path that leads, inevitably, to the arising of any ambition you set yourself.
Follow its flow and know, that each step you take, builds one upon the other, leading to the inevitable tipping point where the dreams you have for yourself, begin to come true.
Letter From The Lab
Each week I share a new thought experiments either as videos or podcasts). If you would like to receive these as I release them you can subscribe to 'Letters from the Lab'.
RESOURCES & LINKS
- More Than Better
Letter From The Lab
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[Warning - Please don't listen to Deep Dive podcasts if you are driving or are not in a place where you feel relaxed and safe!]
Take a deep dive into your own subconscious mind and explore the insight that helping others is the best way to help yourself.
Kindle again that feeling you experience in those moments of kindness and generosity, no matter which way it flows. And in doing that come to know at a deeper level, that this is how the whole thing works.
So... put on some headphones, sit back and relax... it promises to be a lovely journey.
Letter From The Lab
Each week I share a new thought experiments either as videos or podcasts). If you would like to receive these as I release them you can subscribe to 'Letters from the Lab'.
RESOURCES & LINKS
- Help Others Get It - Thought Experiment Video
Letter From The Lab
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[Warning - Please don't listen to Deep Dive podcasts if you are driving or are not in a place where you feel relaxed and safe!]
Take a deep dive into your own subconscious processing, so that you can explore the reality of the world you experience, as the creator of that experience... in the very moment of its creation.
The benefits of taking time for yourself to contemplate in this kind meditative way and now well proven. So listen and re-listen as often as you need to in order to get what you most need from the experience.
Each month I share a new subconscious thought experiments which will come straight to you inbox when you subscribe to 'Letters from the Lab'.
So... put on some headphones, sit back and relax... it promises to be a fascinating journey.
RESOURCES & LINKS
- Choose Your Reality - Thought Experiment Video
Letter From The Lab
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[Warning - Please don't listen to Deep Dive podcasts if you are driving or are not in a place where you feel relaxed and safe!]
Welcome to the Lab of Life, its a genuine pleasure to have you here.
In the Lab i conduct thought experiments for a life well lived.
These thought experiments bring together the worlds of ancient intuitive wisdom and modern empirical science looking for the turrets of how we human beings really work.
Each Thought Experiment is first shared as a short easy to get and easy use video. If you find it interesting or useful then you can take a Deep Dive into the ideas it's sharing through a 10 minute podcast.
These Deep Dives take you on a creative and stimulating journey into your own subconscious processing... its a fascinating experience.
Every week I conduct a new thought experiment and then share it in my weekly Letter From The Lab, which get via this link.
My sincere hope is that within these thought experiments you find ideas and insights that make a real difference for you in your life and help you and those you care about, enjoy a life well and truly lived.
RESOURCES & LINKS
Letter From The Lab
Thought Experiment Videos
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