You’re listening to the Transform Your Life from the Inside Out podcast. This episode is titled, “You Were Born into a Light Experience You Didn’t Create.” You know, this is a rather slap in the face, cold water type of word, but the word brainwashed. My attempt in this episode is to get you to start thinking about how you (and if you rebel from this, you’re going to miss a lot) how you’ve been brainwashed by the world, civilization, society, politics, government, religion, families, and everything, and how that’s robbed you of your authentic and real power to create, to heal, to have, to love, to be, to have whatever experience of life that you want.

And I’m telling you right now, you can have anything you want in life. You can be, do, and have anything. But even as I say that, you may want to believe it, but you just don’t believe it. And the reason you don’t believe it is because you’ve been brainwashed. So if you’d like to discover how you’ve been brainwashed and how civilization has kept you blind and taken your spiritual power away from you, keep listening.

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 we’re going to talk about brainwashing, and I’m going to start with an example that no one can argue with. And I’m going to actually start somewhere else before I get there, but I’m going to start with North Korea. Now, before I talk about North Korea, and by the way, this is not a political episode. It’s about how your power was taken, how your autonomy was taken, how you, even though you may think that you’re spiritual, how you’ve still been brainwashed and a lot of that power has been taken from you.

So you were born into a story. And the thing is, you didn’t write the story. This story was already running before you took your very first breath. And these stories are about family. And I grew up, you know, as you did, with many stories about who and what my family was, who and what we were, how we fit into the world, how people perceived us, etc. So you’ve learned your stories from your family, through religion, through government, school, social media, and all these institutions, whether they be formal ones like government or globally established ones, it doesn’t matter. Everything is a script. And what we don’t recognize is that we, for the most part, are living a script. That in itself indicates that we have been brainwashed.

Now, all these beliefs that I’m talking about, you didn’t adopt them consciously. You were simply marinated, so to speak, in them. You were literally just taught these things. They were your environment. You lived in the environment and you became the beliefs. Now, to give you an example, me, which it applies to many of you, probably 60 to 70% of you, but you can apply this to anywhere in your life. I grew up a small town Texas farm boy. We didn’t have any money. So I was marinated in the dogma, in the indoctrination of “we don’t have any money. We don’t have any money. We don’t have any money.” Times are hard. You know, money doesn’t grow on trees. Only rich people have those things. If you want better things in life, you have to work hard. You have to hustle. You have to grind. You have to struggle. You’ve got to be up at five in the morning and blah, blah. All these beliefs that I was literally marinated in.

Now, as a result of living in these beliefs (and you also live in your beliefs). So, for example, I consider myself to be a spiritualist. And even beyond that, I identify more with the concept of being a cosmologist. Because even saying you’re a spiritualist can indicate that you’re trapped in the dogma of spirituality, maybe what people might call a woo-woo dogma. And I tend to go beyond that to the essence of your existence. I tend to take a more ontological approach. As I was saying, your beliefs, whatever beliefs you have right now about what you can have, what you can’t have, can you heal, can you not heal, what you can do, what you can’t do, every bit of that you are marinated in and it’s become your reality.

And in North Korea right now (now I mentioned this analogy because I find it quite fascinating). Also quite tragic, but quite fascinating. One of my degrees from many years ago in college was political science. Another one of my degrees was in psychology. And I find that even today, I still tend to marry and merge the two because all politics is psychology. Now in North Korea, if you were to watch any YouTube video on them, any national geographic or any of that, the people that live there, they literally, they don’t know they’re in prison and prisons in the culture because that’s all they’ve ever known. Think very carefully about what I said in North Korea. It is a truism. If you watch any kind of (and the best documentaries are the ones that are not official and people risk their lives getting that kind of footage) people are literally, literally brainwashed.

To think they live in the greatest, most powerful country in the world with all this abundance and all this opportunity, yet it’s pretty much an agrarian economy and many people live in abject poverty unless you subscribe to the party and then you may get rewards and live in the city and Pyongyang, etc. My point is, people defend the very system that has brainwashed them. But see, you’re no different. You’re North Korea. I’ve been North Korea. You see that same story, but a different mechanism all over the world. You go to Russia, you will see it. You go to Germany, you will see it. You may go to a particular religion. You see this right now in the world. One religion is better than another religion.

Right now in the U.S., what we have going on is MAGA. MAGA, whatever you want to call it, make America great again. And many fundamentalists in that particular movement are all about how Americans are superior to other people in the world. Again, it’s the same story, but a different mechanism. And my intention is not to talk to you about politics, but to demonstrate the truism because this mechanism that I’m talking about, the world that we were born into, has robbed you of your essence, your spiritual power, but not in a dogmatic way, not in the woo-woo way, but in the cosmic way. Because the truth is, even though you may want to believe it, but you don’t believe it, but the truth is, you are extraordinarily powerful.

And I’m going to talk about that in this episode as we keep going here. Now, I don’t want to make this a really long episode, so it might be a two or three part episode. I do not know. But what I’m sharing with you about North Korea is that the most dangerous prison has no walls. Now, in North Korea, there are many walls. You can’t even get out of the country. But look at the prisons that you live in. In the U.S., in the Western world, we call it the glass ceiling. And then many people will say, “you know what? I know there’s more, but I’m just stuck. I just can’t tell you why I’m stuck, but I know that I’m stuck.”

Well, the prisons that you live in that are in your mind, were simply built, and this is the part that’s kind of the hard pill to swallow, they were built entirely out of indoctrinated consensus. Now, what I mean by that, as I’ve already alluded to and talked about, you were indoctrinated as a kid. If you’re Jewish, you probably grew up Jewish, or Catholic, or Mormon, or Jehovah’s Witness, or poor, like I did, and I was indoctrinated with that. I’m not that any longer. I mean, this humbly, but I’m very wealthy today financially. But I was indoctrinated. I was marinated into the psychology, into the veil of struggle and struggle and struggle. And that’s what I want to bring to you here.

But again, it’s not about the 3D. Now, when I say the 3D, I mean the ego. My objective and where I’m going on my path is to help you find the higher essence in you, the higher power in you, and the higher truth in you. Because when you find that, all these challenges you’ve been having in life, you recognize they’re simply an illusion.

Okay, so speaking of illusion, who created the illusions? Well, you have to recognize this. The illusions are not accidental. The illusion, collectively macro, so to speak, and micro, they’re all engineered. If you look at governments, a government needs people to be obedient. A government needs people to follow. A government does not need creative, critical, sovereign thinkers. You look at religions. Religions need followers. They need people who will believe and buy the dogma. And what a religion does not want, and they will cost you for that, is thinking outside of that particular religion. You look at particular religions in the world now and they will tell you, if you’re not this religion and you’re that religion, you are bad. I even heard someone, a high level American politician, recently say that all Jewish people were going to hell. My thought was, are you kidding me?

And governments do this through religion in the U.S. There are many people trying to create a religious state out of the United States. In Texas now, I believe it’s Texas and Oklahoma, they’re required to display the Ten Commandments in a classroom. It’s all brainwashing to that particular religion. Because, for example, if you said, “okay, then can we convey the Ten Commandments in a Russian or North Korean schoolroom?” The answer would be, hell no. In North Korea, we’re going to execute you for saying that. But it’s all contrived by people that want to manipulate, people that want to control, people who want power over you.

And my whole mission (I’ve done this podcast now, and I think we’re coming up on 500 episodes and almost, I think, six, seven million downloads or something like that) is not about you getting things in your 3D ego. It’s understanding the wholeness and the existence of you. So my mission going forward is to get you to realize and to help you to start realizing that God power within you. And not from a woo-woo perspective, not through dogma, but through realization and through awareness.

And when you’re in the brainwashing (and we’re going to talk a lot about that) but when you’re in the brainwashing, you don’t have any awareness. You could talk to somebody in North Korea that’s in North Korea. And you could talk to them about how nasty the government is and the supreme leader and the great leader is, and they’re going to negate you. They’re going to tell you they’re wrong. I mean, you’re probably going to literally get in trouble for that politically and be taken to a labor camp. Who knows? The point is, is when you’re in the illusion, you cannot see you’re in the illusion. But this happens all around us in the Western world and most of the world.

Food companies. Doritos, McDonald’s, food companies need people addicted. What they do not need is people that are healthy, autonomous, and people that are critical thinkers. The pharmaceutical industry, basically, they don’t want you to be well, even though they say that they do. And I have friends and college friends that are professors, and they work in the industry, and they have a good heart. I do want to say they think they’re helping people. But the industry overall, is for profit. And if you’re well, they make no profit. So the pharmaceutical industry is all about profits, not cures. And this is why many major pharmaceutical companies will not develop cures for things that are not long term illness. The money is in the long term illness and people continuing to actually use the medication.

You look at the school system. Think back to when you were in first grade. I remember that a lot of my autonomy was stripped away as I looked back. Now, of course, we need order in the world, and I get that. We need some level of compliance to create and have a civil society. But when I was a child, we were taught to be quiet, stand in line, raise your hand, and et cetera. We were taught complete compliance every single morning from kindergarten on. I recall this. And again, I grew up in Texas. But from kindergarten on, every single morning, marched outside: “I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands.” That’s indoctrination. I live in the U.S. and I like where I live. I want to be very clear about that. But I could live anywhere and probably like where I live for the most part, except North Korea. But I like where I live and I’m grateful for all the opportunities that I have. So do not think for a second that I’m knocking the U.S. I’m knocking this human mechanism that is global, that strips away our power.

So every institution that I talk about, whether it be health and wellness, whether it be political, whether it be religious, they all have a vested interest and you not waking up. And that’s not, I wouldn’t call it a conspiracy theory. It’s simply power sustaining itself. Church doesn’t want you to wake up. See, I’ve had a hard time. I do not believe you have to go to a priest to get to the Catholic rendition of their God. I’ve worked with a shaman now for 30 years, a sorcerer. And the power that all of us have is the power to go to the source. And that’s why sorcerers are called sorcerers, because they go to the source to gather information, to heal, to know how to heal, to get whatever they need. And you might be thinking, “well, I’m not a shaman. I’m not a sorcerer.” But yeah, you are a sorcerer. You just don’t know it because you’ve been brainwashed not to believe that you are that.

The deepest lie that you have been literally brainwashed to believe is that you are a small physical being. Even when you look at some Christian dogma verbatim, it tells you that you are a very, very, very small being. And you are. You are within the context of that religion and the way that they’re teaching it. But as a soul, there’s nothing small about you. Now, when I say, for example, you’ve been conditioned to believe that you are a small being, someone listening might say, “well, that’s not true. I’m blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I’m rich and I’m bullshit.” That’s arrogance. I’m talking about from the spiritual truth.

And from the spiritual truth, I know you’re not going to believe this, and it’s more abstract, and it’ll be hard to get your mind around. As I understand (and I’m not talking about the Jesus of history at all, okay? Because that’s dogma) but I read somewhere where Jesus allegedly said (and it’s probably in the Bible) “even the least amongst you can do all that I have done and even greater things.” Now, think about that for a moment. The least amongst you can do all that I have done and even greater things. That right there, that is my mission: to help you see that, is that you can do far more than what you thought you can do, but you don’t know it yet because that’s been taken from you.

So when I look at the brainwashing (I’d mentioned, you know, political and religious and, you know, pharmaceutical industry and et cetera) but that’s not the most crippling and damaging brainwashing. The most damaging brainwashing is what I call ontological. And ontological means the nature of being, existence, and reality. And that is where you’ve been brainwashed to not understand the bigger picture of your being, your existence, and your reality.

I mentioned it on two or three episodes in the past. I saw this picture. It was a drawing, a rendition of this baby that was literally just delivered. The doctor’s holding the baby up by the two feet. There’s a tray, a medical tray near the delivery table. And on that tray, there’s branding irons. There’s a branding iron for Christianity and one for Taoism and one for Judaism and one for Buddhism and one for Islam, etc. All these branding irons. And the doctor was reaching over to pick up a branding iron to brand the baby. That’s what I mean. And that baby lives from that brainwashing of that brand. You have been branded. The baby lives from the brainwashing of that brand, not recognizing that the ontological behind that, what is the true nature of being and existence in reality beyond this brainwashing?

If you’ve listened for any amount of time, you’ve heard me say, I grew up on a farm in Texas. We branded cattle. I grew up branding cattle. I know how to brand cattle. Oh God, I sound like somebody else. “I know I’m the best at this.” Anyway, I branded cattle. And the reason you brand cattle is so that if it gets out of your fence or out of your pasture or off your land, someone else will know who the cattle belongs to and they can return it. Well, you’ve been branded. But you’ve been branded by (as I talked about earlier) everything from the pharmaceutical companies to TV to parents to family to school to religion.

And this is what is vital to understand. You were handed, when you got branded, so to speak, that’s also the brainwashing, you were handed a story about what you are before you could even question it. You think about that. You were handed a story about what you are before you could even question it. Now, in my extended family, they identify as Christian. And my nephew, he’s like 14 or 15 now. But when he got baptized, he was baptized in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost. And he was literally, I don’t know, six months old, whatever it was. Now, he didn’t consciously know what was happening. But we brand our children like that. And the religions, mothers, for example, they don’t mean to do it. They are literally brainwashed by media. Media commercials tell you, if you get sick, this is what you need. Mothers believe it. And then what mothers do is they tell their kids, if you get sick (they tell their kids they’re going to get sick). And then the kids actually get sick because they’ve been told they’re going to get sick, which is a suggestion. And then the mom buys the product.

I’ll give you a great example. Tylenol. Many years ago, about 20 years ago, they had a commercial. And that commercial was airing around November at some point. This cute little boy is sitting on a bed. You could tell it was winter. There’s soft music coming on and you could see rain outside the window and the patter of the rain on the window. This little boy is sitting on the bed and he’s sniffling and sneezing and obviously he doesn’t feel good. And all the narrator says is this, “moms, cold and flu season is here. When your little one gets sick, you can depend on children’s Tylenol.” That’s it. That’s the whole commercial.

And when I saw that, I’m like, oh my God, that is powerful. Let me break it down for you. When the commercial calls to moms, moms are hypervigilant about keeping their kids well. “Moms, cold and flu season is here.” Now, if you’re a mom and you heard that, you’re not thinking, “well, okay, is it November? Let me check my calendar. What day does cold and flu season get here? Does it start on the 20th of the month? Does it start on the 1st? What is the actual first day of cold and flu season, like baseball season or football season?” No, we don’t do that. So when we hear that, we… boom, automatically buy it. The mother buys it thinking, “oh, okay, cold and flu season is here.” By the way, that’s called a hypnotic suggestion.

Then what happens? What do moms do? Moms tell their kids, “bundle up, bundle up, bundle up. You’re going to put your coat on. Don’t go outside of wet hair, blah, blah, blah.” And then moms will often say, “you’re going to get sick. You’re going to get sick. You’re going to get sick.” the child gets sick, who can the mother now depend on? You got it. Children’s Tylenol. So as I mentioned, this happens all the time. All the time.

But what you were taught as a child (and this is to me one of the most damaging things, but I understand why it was done that way and things are different now) but you were taught you are a body. You are a history. You are a diagnosis, and you are a bank account. And when you’re taught that you are a body predominantly, you have history, you are a diagnosis, and you are a bank account, these become your brainwashing, they become your prison. And these stories, what they do is they make you scared. They make you small, and they make you dependent on the powers that give you those stories and those powers that control the systems.

And then when you play small, what do you do? You hustle. You chase. You fight. You work your ass off earning and earning and earning. And your entire life is to support these stories that aren’t even true. And if you look at people that play small (and I’m telling you right now, I’m like, I mean this respectfully and kindly). If you can relate to anything I’ve said and you’re saying, “yeah, that is me.” Well, guess what? Like me and like all of us, we cannot escape it. We can become aware of it, which is my attempt now to get you to become aware of it, but we cannot escape it.

When we play small, we need leaders, we need authorities, and we need experts to tell us what to do. So the entire system (the pharmaceutical industry, the political industry, the religious industry) they all run on one thing: you believing you are small. And that’s the core lie right there that everything is built on. That’s the core lie right there that keeps you trapped.
Okay, so as I said, I didn’t know how many episodes this would turn into. Very passionate about this topic. For many years, I taught transformation. We just offered our final TCP, Transformational Coaching Program. I will never do it again. Where I’m working from now (and I don’t think I’ll change my podcast title) but I’m working from transcendence. When you work from transformation, you have to transform the ego identity. Where I’m working from now is transcending the entire circumstances and mechanisms that created you and someone who feels like you need to transform. That’s how broken all this is. It turns people into basically very small visions of who they are.

So your transformational takeaway right now, and I will add to this as we go, is this isn’t about techniques or strategies or hacks or any of that. Escaping the brainwashing, but fundamentally rewiring at a very deep level, a higher awareness of you literally requires one thing. And I just used that word, awareness. And that’s what I’m going to be working with in the next couple of episodes, attempting to help you create more awareness.

And I’m not offering any, I’m not doing any long term coaching programs right now. I’m doing TCP. But after that, I will have a new program coming called, believe it or not, Brainwashed: Escaping the Human Lie. I’ll tell you more about that. I don’t know when I’m going to deliver that. It’ll be probably a couple of months from now, but it’ll be a comprehensive program to help you literally escape the brainwashing and escape the lie.

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Thank you for listening. I’ll catch you over on another episode. So we’ll continue on this theme in the next episode. Take care. Bye bye.