You’re listening to the transform your life from the inside out podcast. This episode is titled breaking the illusion of you. This is going to be a two part mini series. And the reason why this is a really big topic and I don’t want to cram everything into one episode. So I want to spend some time with this to help you start understanding, to help you start exploring yourself at a different level. Now, as I said, a couple of months ago, I want to start changing the format with the podcast. 
 
didn’t come together as quickly as I wanted, but where we want to go and where I want to go is to more applied spirituality, meaning esoteric, mystical, spiritual sharing, but with an application, a practical application to your everyday life. So it’s still about transformation and transforming your life from the inside out, but we want to take a little deeper spiritual dive and our time together. Enjoy the episode. 
 
Hi, I’m Jim Fortin and you’re about to start transforming your life from the inside out with this podcast. I’m widely considered the leader in subconscious transformation and I’ve coached super achievers all around the world for over 25 years. Here, you’re going to find no rah rah motivation and no hype because this podcast is a combination of brain science, transformational psychology, and ancient wisdom all rolled into one to take your life to levels you’ve never thought possible. 
 
If you’re wanting a lot more in life to feel better, to heal, to have peace of mind, to feel powerful and alive and to bring more abundance and prosperity into your life, then this podcast is for you because you’re going to start learning how to master your mind and evolve your consciousness. And when you do that, anything you want then becomes possible for you. I’m glad you’re here. Okay. So breaking the illusion of you. Let me preface first. 
 
and say this, I’ve been doing this for six years. And as I mentioned, I was getting a little tired, a little burned out. You know, there’s so many people talking about the same blah, blah, blah stuff. And I’ve done the same thing, but I hopefully have done it in a deeper way and a deeper level. But you hear so many people talking about manifestation and achievement and peak performance and making tons of money. And as I said, blah, blah, blah. And that’s all well and good. I want you to have every bit of that. 
 
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But it’s so hard for people when they listen to performance content or, you know, money making content or whatever. Why do people listen to tons of money content, but they still struggle with money? Well, I want to start filling in that gap. And what I want to look at, because here’s where your ultimate power is. What I want to look at in upcoming episodes is what does it mean to be human? Who are you? What are you? 
 
And then a big question, which people, you know, we are human beings, but what does it mean to be? And then another question is, if you truly understood what it would mean to be, meaning you exist, what then becomes possible for you? What capabilities open up? What could you actually achieve in your life a whole lot easier? So in this episode, I want to dig into the illusions of you and what really inspired this shift. 
 
because I’ve done this for many years and I’ve enjoyed it, is I think back to a conversation with Wayne Dyer back in 1992. Now it wasn’t a personal conversation. Actually it was a small group. And Wayne said something he was pretty well known for. He says, you’re not a human being having a spiritual experience. You’re a spiritual being having a human experience. And I’ve known that, or at least I’ve realized that analytically for decades. 
 
but that’s where I want to go with you is what does it truly mean to be a spiritual being beyond the dogma, beyond all of the information out there? What does it mean to be? Because we can analyze it and say we understand, but I want to go beyond that with you. And I want to assist you and beginning to know yourself because when you know yourself, 
 
which we’re going to start talking about today. And you work from that perspective. It’s a whole lot easier to create the health money relationships, whatever it is that you want in life. But notice when you work from the higher aspect, the higher awareness of you, you’re not chasing what you want in life from the ego perspective. You are allowing it from the higher spiritual perspective. And that’s when the word manifestation 
 
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becomes a whole lot easier. Okay, so as I mentioned earlier, this will be two parts. So I want to cover some points here, some points of consideration, and I’ll go through these very slowly. And then what I’ll do in time is I will even dig deeper into these and take these apart. So the first thought that I want to share is the invisible trap, the illusion that most people never notice. So 
 
What I’ve noticed though is so many people suffer in life and they suffer in life because they think life is hard. But the reality is, is people suffer not because life is hard, but because they don’t know themselves. They suffer because what I call them being trapped in the 3d illusion, the ego identity, the container of skin, the human identity. 
 
They are trapped in that illusion and that illusion has all of this past history and baggage with it. This illusion, literally what it does, it makes the person feel like they’re separated from the higher aspect of themselves. This illusion that you were predominantly, even though you might analytically think, okay, I’m a spiritual being having a human experience. If you’re struggling in life, 
 
with anything and I’ve been there as well. It’s because you are in the illusion of the 3d ego identity aspect of you. When I say the 3d identity ego aspect, however you identify white or black or educated or not educated or rich or whatever it is, we become these experiences. We have these experiences and then we identify 
 
And this identity that we’re creating because we identify with it is an illusion that makes separation. It makes separation from the higher aspect of us seem like a reality, but it’s not a reality. Separation is not a reality. It’s an illusion. So we have to be aware that this illusion and that human ego and the human identity is 
 
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what I call a trickster and native American totems, native American animal cards, the coyote, the coyote is known as trickster medicine, meaning it’s always fooling you. Well, the thing about your human identity and your ego is that it is constantly fricking you and fooling you about the ability and truth about yourself. And I will talk more about this as I dive into other episodes. 
 
because I will continue bringing content like this. And I’m to start bringing guests onto the podcast as well. And I want everything to center around breaking the illusion of the human identity. won’t go into it today, but we’re dualistic. We have a human identity and then we have a spiritual identity. But most of us find it very challenging to even recognize that we are trapped in the human identity. As a matter of fact, 
 
You at least have some awareness because you’re listening to this episode, but many people have no clue, no clue whatsoever that they are working from the 3d identity and ego and not their spiritual essence, not the truth of who they really are. And as I said, that is the illusion. Now talking about the ego identity, that’s the core illusion that manufactures every problem that you have in your life. 
 
I’ll say it again. That ego identity is the core illusion that manufactures every problem you have in your life. You know, we often go through life saying, I have a problem with this. I have a problem with that. I’m stuck here. I’m stuck there. Problem, problem, problem. What causes that is a question because the moment you believe the moment you believe you are separate, 
 
from whatever you want to call it. God, divine mind, source, universal field. Again, whatever you want to call it, the moment that you believe you are separate from divinity, God, source, divine mind. In that exact moment, you inherit the whole human menu of yourself and socialization, meaning you inherit lack, 
 
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fear, disease, conflict. So the second you separate yourself from the true identity that you are divine mind, you are divine essence. And that moment you become the ego identity, you identify with that. And then because you identify with that, everything that comes with it, it’s a package deal. You also identify with, as I just said, you identify with the lack and the fear and the disease and the conflict. 
 
And then what we do is we personalize that. When I say we personalize it, what I mean is we make it about us. I have disease. People might say I have disease because I am blank, because I do this, because I don’t exercise because I don’t eat right, whatever it might be. I have fear because I grew up in a bad neighborhood and now I live in fear. have lack, which I did for many years. 
 
because I learned that from my socialization, from my family, from my community. My soul knows none of that, but my identity knew it in particular, the lack that’s all identity. So any challenge and problem you have is not a you problem. It’s an ego, a 3d ego problem. But what we do, most of us is we wrap ourselves in our ego. 
 
And we define ourselves by that ego. Look out in the world. Now we define ourselves by our race and our gender and our sexual orientation and our money and our height and where we live. We define ourselves by that. And that is all illusion. That is all temporary three D ego because it’s the illusion that separates us from spirit. 
 
The illusion is doing what illusions do. And illusions basically do not let you see the truth because the illusion keeps you trapped in the illusion. So what needs to happen? And my intention in working with you and sharing all this, what needs to happen is that you have what I call an identity shift, an identity flip, whatever you want to call it. 
 
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And we start fostering and nurturing and creating more awareness in you that you’re not a human having a spiritual experience. You are not a physical being trying to earn spirituality. You were not a physical being trying to be spiritual. What you are is you are consciousness temporarily appearing and manifested as a physical person. 
 
Let me say that again. You are consciousness, temporarily appearing and manifested as a physical person, as a human, and the way that most of us experience life, we will sit here in our own context and say, I am a human and I’m Australian or German or male or female or rich or poor, but you know what? 
 
this container that has all those identities. by the way is also spiritual. Well, we’re working from within the illusion. We’re working backwards. So when we work from, okay, wait, let’s flip that. I am consciousness. I am infinite consciousness. And I am temporarily having an appearing and experiencing 
 
And I am manifested as a 3d physical person. My consciousness, because that is the predominant aspect of me, component of me, my consciousness is currently manifested as a human. When we get that, that one shift, it changes the entire game. It’s kind of like what I call inductive. 
 
versus deductive logic. Now deductive logic, we can be here on the planet, wherever we live from our little point in the universe. And we can start making deductions about what the universe is and what life is and what it’s not and what the universe is and what it’s not and what possibilities are and are not. And we deduce and make those deductions based upon our 3D identity. But what if we reversed all of that? 
 
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And instead of reasoning deductively from the human out, when we reason inductively from the consciousness to the human, we’re taking a different approach, a completely different approach. And when we get that, we start recognizing that, I’m not the human being that I thought that I was all these characteristics that I identify with. And I personalized, they are not lying. 
 
They are simply a reflection of the identity of this container of skin, of this container that’s holding my physical body. This whole identity is a reflection of that container. But the higher identity that I am first and foremost, consciousness, having a physical experience that gives me power, because then that gives me influence over the physical container. Hopefully that makes sense. 
 
I’m going to be talking a whole lot about identities I have for many years, but I’m going to be talking about it in a different way. And also a spiritual way. I say that we have dual identities. We have the three identity, meaning, you know, you could say, not, my name is Bob or Susie or an American or I’m German or I’m black or Venezuela or whatever it might be. But then, and this is where this is the journey I want to take you on. 
 
we have the 4d identity, meaning the soul identity. And the soul identity is not heavy like the 3d identity because the 3d identity, meaning the human identity is held back by the separation and the fear and disease and worry and all these kinds of things that the 3d container identifies with. But when we actually identify as consciousness first, 4d 
 
all the 3D limitations start to drop away. Now in the 3D container, we perceive to be its problems. And have you ever noticed that the more you try to solve your 3D problems from your 3D container, the less your problems generally get solved. What many of us do is what I did for many years ago is the old metaphor. You try to shuffle the furniture on the Titanic. 
 
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You try to move the furniture around on the Titanic to prevent it from going down. When you’re solving the world from your 3d ego, that’s exactly what you’re doing. When you’re solving your problems from the 3d ego, that’s what you’re doing. You’re basically just moving chairs around on the Titanic. So notice this also as you think about, I’m going to say this very slowly. As you think about your problems, think about them right now. Maybe it’s money, 
 
relationships. But what I want you to notice is what I requested. Think about your problems. Notice how you very quickly could start thinking about a problem. And the reason why is because you, you identify with those problems. You and your 3d ego identifies with those problems. Make a note of that. 
 
because what you identify with will determine the outcomes in your life. But what I want to share with you, these problems that you identify with, these are not sole problems. 
 
Ponder that the things that you consider to be problems in your life are not soul problems. They are ego problems. And now can you see the benefit of identifying as consciousness first? Because consciousness has no problems. Consciousness has complete abundance. Consciousness is love. Consciousness is infinite. 
 
So when you start to identify as consciousness first and a human ego and identity and container, second, your problems, they don’t get solved. They simply dissolve themselves. Think about that. The problems don’t get solved because there is no problem to solve. They simply dissolve and the concretize that and give you a little more food for thought here. The biggest 
 
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problem, if any that you have is that you notice the word you, you think you have problems. And if you think you have problems, you are identifying and you define yourself by the 3d ego, not the divine essence within you. So do you now see that holding the idea that you have problems is what keeps you trapped? 
 
in the problem. 
 
So in fairness to you, as you know, I’ve, I’ve learned this over the years of assimilated it. I brought it into my life, but this is the part that used to mess with me. I used to try to fix things in my life until I realized one day is that you don’t fix illusions. You see through them. And when you see through them, it’s like an epiphany. That’s what transformation is. Transformation is an epiphany and a higher awareness. 
 
So I recognized all these problems that I thought I had in life were all problems of my 3d ego and identity. And I tried and I tried and I tried to fix all of my problems, mainly money. And the more that I tried to fix my problem, I was trying to fix an illusion. So when I started seeing through the illusion, it was actually then very easy for me to return to the power that unconsciousness. 
 
a phraseology that scares a lot of people. They don’t understand it, but I and you and you, are all, we’re all God mind. We’re all God. As I look out in the world, maybe scanning the news is very briefly to see what’s happening. All these things that are happening in the world, these things are happening in the individual minds of the people holding those things in their mind. 
 
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Now, obviously we look out in the world and there is a lot of chaos and a lot of different things going on in the world, but the only true chaos is the chaos in your mind or not in your mind. So we look out in the world, many of us do, and we see all these things that they, you know, we think that we fixed if humanity or when humanity would rise to a higher awareness of itself, these things that we see the bombing, the wars, 
 
control, the killing that all stops. Because like I said before, a tree does not set fire to the branches on the other side of the tree because the tree recognizes it is all part of the same. So when we start seeing through this illusion of ego identity, all the things that we identified with from the position of that 3d ego identity automatically just 
 
falls away. And that’s when we open up to the divinity in ourselves. I want to share another thought here. Then we will wrap this episode up and continue on the next episode. But I remember as a child and I grew up in a Baptist household this day and age, I’m a spiritualist and not even that to some degree, because many people, would say I’m more, more of a cosmologist than anything or even a mystic, but 
 
even as day and age spirituality has and can have a dogmatic connotation to it. But I remember as a child, many of you can relate to this. I was taught to pray and I said that typical kids prayer every night before bed. And as I try to think about it, what was it as I lay myself down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep. If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take. 
 
But as I look at that point in my life, when I was six, seven, eight years old, I was taught that when I wanted things in life, I should pray for them. Now, many of you listening, you pray for what you want in life. I pray for world peace. I pray for health. I pray for more money. I pray for a husband or a partner or a boyfriend or a girlfriend. Maybe you haven’t recognized it, but in that moment, 
 
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you’re trying to get something from the universe. Ponder that when you pray in the way that most of us are taught, you were trying to get something from the universe. Many people pray and they negotiate God. If you, you know, God get me out of this and I will never do XYZ again. God get me out of this and I will never, you know, steal money again or whatever it is people do. 
 
they’re begging, they’re begging divine mind. And what they’re doing is they’re begging life and you’re begging life. People beg life because they have separated themselves from life. Like I talked about earlier, they’ve created that separation of the 3d ego. They live in the 3d ego, meaning the human identity. They identify with that. They recognize the 3d ego and identity. 
 
They identify with that. Then they have all the problems associated with that, which is what I’d mentioned earlier. So all those problems that are created as a result of identifying with the human ego. Now what we do is we beg God, please take these things away from me. Please take the pain away. Please take the illness away or whatever it is. And we’re the ones who created that by a lack of awareness, by a lack of recognizing 
 
We’re God, we’re consciousness. We are one with the Creator. 
 
a phrase that I heard many, many times growing up. And again, I grew up in a small town in Texas, Baptist, and there was a Baptist church in a town I grew up in, in a big Catholic church. And I remember having to go to the Baptist church as a kid, and I would rebel against Christian dogma, especially fire and brimstone. But I heard something that has stuck in my mind for 40 years. And finally, I understand it. 
 
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but not from the position of dogma. And what I heard many years ago that I could never get my mind around is the biblical phrase. Jesus said, I and the father are one. And for me, you know, 40 years ago, I’d be like the hell with that. I ain’t buying into that Baptist bullshit religion. Blah, I’m not buying it. What I’ve recognized over the years is 
 
When I identify as consciousness, it’s very easy. And I tell there because it’s very powerful. When I identify as consciousness, it’s very easy to identify being one with the Father, meaning the universe. Substitute the word universe for Father. I think a lot of us miss the esoteric and ancient wisdom of even 
 
tools like the Bible because we see it all as dogma. And then we run from that. Many of us, and especially many people listening to the podcast, which I appreciate you listening by the way, but I recognized that that’s not my place to beg the universe. once heard in Machiavelli say that many of us live our lives as beasts of burden. And the first thing that comes to mind is the, is the Rolling Stone song. 
 
But I never thought of myself as a beast of burden until I heard that phrase. And I started, I started bringing these other teachings into my life. If you’re struggling with money, you’re scratching by, you’re struggling with health. You’re always alone and you don’t want to be, you have become a beast of burden, so to speak, meaning you have become a three D ego container of burden because you have separated yourself from the awareness and knowing 
 
that you are first and foremost before anything, you are consciousness. And that is your transformational takeaway today. First and foremost, you are not a 3d ego. We’re not thinking from the ego to spirit. We want to start thinking from a spirit. I am consciousness that has a body. First and foremost, I am consciousness that has a body and has a human life. When we can literally, 
 
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get into that and we can understand it. That’s when the power starts to come emotionally. We could start to feel it. And when we start living from that power, we no longer are a beast of burden. Why? Because we’re manifesting with the inherent power of the universe. did an episode a long while back titled something along the lines of you’re the most powerful force in the universe. Sharing it with you in this way. 
 
may help you better assimilate and then bring it into your life for practice that you were first consciousness, not Bob or Susie or Mary or Australian or any of the crap we’ve been taught to identify with. So let’s bring more power into your life. So what we’ll do on the next episode, we’ll pick up from here. And then ideally, if I’m going to put the intention out, I’m going to set the intention and be the intention. 
 
that we have a couple of good guests a little later in the month, people you’ll find great value from and with. And what I want to do with interviewing them is expand and help their opinions and their, their knowings and their awareness and their teachings to help expand so that you guys literally have different perspectives so you can better assimilate this into your life. Thanks for listening. And I’ll catch you over on another episode. Bye bye.