You’re listening to the Transform Your Life from the Inside Out podcast. This episode is titled, “You Were Born into a Life Experience You Didn’t Create.” Now, this is literally part two, and maybe there’ll be a part three, I don’t know, of this particular subject, which I started on the last episode. In the last episode, I said that basically you have been brainwashed. You have been robbed by the world that we live in. You have been robbed of your authentic and real power. And you’ve been robbed of your ability to heal, to have, to create, to love.

Basically, you’ve been brainwashed, and I mean that literally, to have the life experience you have now. And my attempt with these episodes is to get you to recognize that it’s not your fault where you are in life. It doesn’t matter. It’s not your fault. You learn to be the way that you are. You learn to be the identity, and the identity is what automatically creates your life experience now. So let’s dig a little deeper and 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 in the last episode, I said the most crippling brainwashing isn’t political or religious. It’s basically ontological. And ontological, to recap, basically means the nature of being, existence, and reality. Now back to the title of the episode, what’s important to recognize is you were handed, you inherited, you were indoctrinated with a life story you didn’t create. You didn’t create a lot of your story. You were born into other people’s stories, and then you became those stories automatically. You were born into other people’s religions. You were born into other people’s political systems. You were born into other people’s socioeconomics. And the religion and the political systems and the socioeconomics, you learned to become those things without even recognizing you learned to become those things.

I think back many years ago, it was a Time Life magazine. I think the photo won a Pulitzer Prize. And it’s such a poignant photo. The caption basically said, under the picture, “a grandmother holding her baby.” Now, no big deal, right? A grandmother holding her baby. However, that grandmother was in a Ku Klux Klan outfit, meaning she was a Klan’s person, and she’s holding her baby. Now the point is, that baby is growing up in that environment, and that baby is already inheriting ideas and presupposed to be a racist because that’s the way the baby most likely was conditioned.

Now, I’m suspecting you are not in the Ku Klux Klan or you would not be listening to my podcast, but make no mistake, you’re no different. Whatever or wherever you are in life, you have been conditioned to be that way through the brainwashing. We often wonder, well, Jim, how come I don’t recognize this until now? Why is it just now that somebody’s telling me this? Well, what I want to share with you, think about it this way. If you ask a fish about the water, a fish will say, “what water?” because the fish isn’t cognizant and aware that the fish is in water. It’s just completely natural for the fish to be in the water.

And the same thing with you. You may struggle against your environment and your circumstances. But it’s completely natural. Let me say this very slowly: it’s completely natural for you to be how you are. It’s completely natural for you to think what you think. We rarely don’t ever actually take a metaposition and say, “hmm, I’m observing myself thinking right now. I am the thinker of my thoughts. What thoughts am I thinking? Are those thoughts true or did I learn those thoughts?” That would be what’s called a metaposition. We simply like the fish. We’re swimming in the ocean, but we don’t even know we’re swimming in the ocean. And again, we say “what water,” but you, you’re swimming in your indoctrination, but you don’t even recognize that you were swimming in your indoctrination.

I had a student when we did TCP. We’re finishing our final round of TCP ever right now. By the way, many of you were invited and you chose not to show up. And you chose not to show up because of your conditioning. The fact that you listen to the podcast means that you want to create more in life. You want to expand and you want to grow. I put gold bricks at your feet, so to speak, saying, “let’s go, let’s grow big time.” And people still don’t do it. Now it’s the conditioning. It’s the conditioning that keeps you where you are in life, that keeps you in your fear, that keeps you wrapped up and keeps you stuck where you are in life. So basically like the fish. The fish is swimming in the water, and the fish says, “what water?” You are metaphorically swimming in your life, and basically you’re saying, “I don’t see that I’m swimming.”

As I mentioned, I have a new program coming. I’m no longer doing transformational work. I’m moving into transcendence work. And I was watching some footage of North Korea. North Korea reminds me a bit of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave. In Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, basically, these people, these two men were chained to a wall in the cave and all they could see were shadows. They came to believe that the shadows were reality and the shadows were real, but they were simply looking at shadows. So they don’t know any differently. Neither do you about your life or it would be different.

But talking about North Korea, if you watch the level of indoctrination (and by the way, as I mentioned before, we are all indoctrinated). If you are a Catholic, you didn’t pop out of the womb and go, “oh, I’m a Catholic.” You were indoctrinated to be that, or a Mormon, or a capitalist, or poor, or a Russian, or an Australian. We literally look at the external world, and we live in it like the fish in the water. We don’t recognize early in life, we are becoming—which is the brainwashing. We are becoming that external world without even recognizing that we have eventually become that external world.

But in North Korea, the indoctrination is so (and the brainwashing for real) is so profound that you ask people in North (and I’ve not been, and I don’t plan on going, but I’ve watched quite a few documentaries, both YouTube and National Geographic, et cetera) people there believe that they live in the greatest country in the world. They are conditioned since birth to hate Americans. As a matter of fact, even kids are conditioned to call Americans the “bastard aggressors.” And in North Korean ideology and the indoctrination, the United States is the mortal enemy of North Korea.

By the way, like the Ku Klux Klan woman who was indoctrinated also, and she’s indoctrinating perhaps her granddaughter and maybe even her kids and people around her, same thing of North Korea indoctrination. Same thing in your life to be a bit repetitive. Wherever you are in your life, whatever fears you have, minus the fear of survival (we’re born of two fears, the fear of loud noise and the fear of falling). All other fears are learned. So whatever fears you have: spending money, maybe committing in a relationship, maybe, oh my gosh, God forbid, you have a health diagnosis that scares the hell out of you. And you’ve been conditioned to believe that, guess what? And it’s not true, and I know that. And I’m an expert on this, and I’ll tell you why I’m an expert.
You’ve been conditioned to believe that you can’t heal, boom, automatically. Now, I don’t mean spontaneously, but automatically. You have an automatic healing mechanism built into the body. And I know how society conditions people, because as a child, I was always told, you know, you’re going to get sick, et cetera, things I’ve talked about before. But I was always taught: when you don’t feel well, you go to the doctor. The doctor prescribed something, but that’s not healing. Now, it might help to heal, but it’s not healing.

But I think back to 2020, when I had heart failure and a stroke in the very same year, that year was a bitch and a half. But what I’m sharing here, the doctors, the cardiologists and neurologists had some very direct messages, and they were fear-based messages. “Your life, basically, is going to be limited by this experience. Your life is going to be affected in this way. You cannot do this anymore. You cannot do that anymore.” And for me, it was like Charlie Brown’s teacher. If you don’t know who Charlie Brown is (and I would guess everyone does) a cartoon series back in the 1960s and 70s. And the teacher used to talk like this: “wah, wah, wah, wah, wah, wah, wah, wah, wah, wah.” If you’re old enough to remember, you can relate to that.

So when the chief neurologists and chief cardiologists were talking to me, basically, I was like, “wah, wah, wah, wah, wah, wah, wah, wah, wah, wah,” because they were only telling me a product of their own indoctrination. And I know that I have the ability, you have the ability to heal, but that is taken away from us based upon and how we were brainwashed as children.

Ask a fundamentalist politically MAGA person, and let’s say a fundamental MAGA person. They are fundamental that (and I’ve seen people say this, it’s quite interesting) I’ve seen people say that Donald Trump was anointed by God, even though in terms of evangelical Christianity, he’s the furthest thing from God, so to speak, the teachings of the Bible. People believe it. Why? Because of the politics. But if you try to talk to them in the indoctrination, you try to talk to them. You cannot talk to them outside of the indoctrination.
But again, you’re no different. It’s challenging to talk with you outside of the indoctrination. In my field, I could say right now, you could be a millionaire. You could be a multimillionaire in one year. And your indoctrination has probably told you, “no way in hell could I be a millionaire in one year.” I told a story earlier today on a coaching call I had over in a group called SoulForge that I have. You might’ve heard ads for it here. And I do coaching calls in that room. And I remember 25, 26 years ago, one of my clients was a Venezuela billionaire. And he said, “Jim, I’m going to teach you how to make a million dollars a year.” I remember saying in that conversation, we were standing in his office at 30 Rockefeller Center, the most expensive real estate in Manhattan. And I said, well, without even thinking about it, boom, automatic. I said, “I’m just a hypnotist. I can’t be a millionaire.” And he said, “yes, you can.”

But here’s the thing: I was so brainwashed, I did not believe that I could be a millionaire. Now, if I make a million a year, I’m broke because I’ve changed my identity and gotten rid of the brainwashing. You could talk to somebody that’s fundamentally religious. And you could say, for example, “you’re God.” And it blows my mind that people think, “oh, our God is the only God. Your God’s wrong. My God’s right. My God can beat up your God.” That’s how archaic people think. Or “I’m going to kill you in the name of God. We have to eradicate all these people off the planet in the name of God.” And for me, I’m like, I’m mind-blown. I don’t even understand the perfunctory logic in this.

But I understand because it’s the brainwashing. Again, we’re not judging here. We’re observing. You also have been brainwashed. And as I said earlier, everything that you do not have that you desire, see, the brainwashing becomes subconscious. But everything you desire is conscious analytical. It’s the part of you listening to me now saying, “yes, Jim, this makes sense,” etc. You become brainwashed, but not even knowing like the fish in water, you have become brainwashed. So then you live in the brainwashing, not even knowing that you’re living in the brainwashing.

You know, a really simple example that many people can relate to is eyewear, glasses. When we’re wearing glasses, what we don’t recognize is that we are actually seeing the world through the filter of the lens. But when you might have your reading glasses on, you’re not saying, “you know what? I’m going to read something right now. And as I read this, I’m going to be looking through the filter of a mechanism that will help me read this better.” It doesn’t even enter our mind. Why? It’s completely subconscious.

We’re a lot like a marionette. Now, if you don’t know what a marionette is, it’s the puppet you see with the strings and somebody’s working the strings and the puppet is dancing. You think that you’re walking—like a marionette. You think that you’re walking. And obviously, it looks like you are. But you know what? You’ve had strings attached since you were born. And that is the brainwashing. But the strings come from the culture and the family and the environment that you’re born into.

And again, I’m going to say it again: please get this. Everything is normal in your environment. Now, you might not like it, but you recognize (and there’s been a lot of research on this). You may be… okay, let me back up here. You may be broke is what I was going to say, but research has demonstrated that rich people daydream about staying rich and poor people daydream about staying poor. Many times we think daydreaming, that’s about wanting something beyond where we are. But daydreaming is just letting your mind wander and letting your mind play either positively or negatively.

And this is why that happened to me. Parents that are poor financially generally create kids that are poor financially. Unless the kid learns has some outside stimulus or someone to break in and change the trajectory of that kid’s life. You know, kids that are born in the Jewish families generally become Jewish. I’ve never seen a three-year-old say, “hey, you know, mom, dad, I’ve thought about this. I know that you’re Jewish, but it doesn’t really work for me. I think I’d rather be, yeah, I want to be Catholic instead.” Obviously, and I’m being facetious, but it doesn’t happen that way.

Racist parents raise racist kids. I was watching this documentary last night on one of the most racist counties in the U.S. It was in the southern U.S. And they were interviewing all older white people. These older white people really didn’t have any… I mean, they were all living in trailers and really didn’t have any money. By the way, I grew up in a trailer. We didn’t have any money. But my parents were not racist. And I watched these people in this documentary. They were just perpetuating. They were perpetuating the reality. Because one woman even said, “well, that’s how we live out here in this part of the country. And that’s how my mama and daddy also lived out here. And because my mama and daddy live that way, that’s the way that I live.” Well, case in point right there.

Recognize this: you inherited the map. And then what you’ve been doing is navigating your entire life through someone else’s map. Someone created the territory, the map of the territory in your life, like my parents did for me. My parents’ map was “money’s hard to make. We’re not those kind of people. We have to struggle really hard. You’ve got to grind and you have to work hard for everything you get.” Now, that was the roadmap that I inherited. That was the indoctrination that I got. And then I look at the environment that reinforced it. My dad used to drive an old beat-up truck. My mom had a barely presentable car. The house was clean, but we literally were not living, you know, in any kind of extravagant way other than a clean and safe household. We had to, for example, I remember my mom, when we were kids, she would buy her a school clothes, but she would go put them on layaway at the beginning of the summer so they would be paid for by the school year.

So what do you think I learned through that indoctrination, through that brainwashing? I learned that money’s hard to make. But for you, it could be about your health. It could be about your relationship. If you watched your parents fight and bicker all through their years, then you were brainwashed to believe early on, “oh, that is the way that relationships happen.” I told it before, one of my best friends, we’ve been a friend since college. We’ve been friends for a lot of years. When we were in college, we went home to his house in Dallas for, I think, a long weekend. Went out drinking. We came in one night. We were cooking something like at 3 o’clock in the morning. And he grabbed the butter out of the cabinet. And I said, “what are you doing putting the butter in the cabinet?” And he said, “that’s where it goes.” And I said, “no, it doesn’t. The butter goes in the refrigerator.” Well, his indoctrination, his brainwashing, is that the butter goes in the cabinet. My brainwashing was that the butter goes in the refrigerator.

Let me stop right there. What are you hearing about your own life? Think about what I’m sharing with you listening individually. You listening right now, observe your environment. Look where you’re missing many things that you may desire. Look at the challenges that you have. Look at how you manage the challenges. Look at how you feel about the challenges. Well, you learned that.

And I look at aspects of my personality, and I can trace it all the way back to both my mother and father. And I inherited a lot of assets and ways of being that I’m very pleased with. And I like being that way. My mom was very kind and very giving and very loving. I would like to think, and I do hear, that I’ve inherited some of that. But my dad was also the one that was always complaining about money and always broke. And I inherited that in major doses, which is why I struggled with money for many years, and there’s no need to.

Okay, so the bigger question, beyond the brainwashing: what’s actually true? And I want to share with you, I promise you (and you may not believe me, and that’s okay) even though I’m sharing this with you, you’re going to get very little of it. And the reason that you’re going to understand it, but it’s not going to change your life dramatically—and the reason, but see, awareness is the first step anyway—the reason why is your brain and your nervous system have been conditioned to automatically respond to the brainwashing.

So even as I’m saying things right now, the group that I have, SoulForge, again, you probably are going to hear an ad for it. Somebody said on the call today, they said, “I’m going through all the material again, and I’m seeing things that I never saw the first time.” And that’s the way that it happens. And the reason why is repetition is the mother of all learning. But when we hear things that are new or a little different or said in a different way, what we have to look at is: does that coalesce? Does it work? Is it congruent with my current brainwashing?

Now, what I mean is, if somebody said to you right now, “you can make $1 million a year.” If you automatically say, “how? I don’t believe you. No, I can’t,” notice what you’re doing. You are reactively and automatically responding to a truth that I’m telling you. You could make a million dollars, but what we will not do is give up our current reality through brainwashing. We’re all brainwashed that we have to have security, which is an illusion. So we literally live in the brainwashing saying, “I want that over there. I want more. Why can’t I do it? Why am I not showing up? Why am I not doing what I need to be doing? How come I’m afraid to take action? How come I’m afraid to do different things?” The brainwashing.

The truth is this. There is an intelligence running this entire universe, and you ain’t helping. Meaning, when I mean “you ain’t helping,” the universe does not need your help to run the universe. But look at your life. You’ve been brainwashed that you have to do everything on your own. You have to create your own money. You’ve got to take care of your own health. And I’m not telling you not to do those things. What I’m telling you is you’ve been brainwashed to give up all of your power when the universe, God, divine mind, the quantum field, consciousness, whatever you want to call it, is actually doing the heavy work.

You’re not doing the heavy work even though you think you’re doing the heavy work. So to give you another example, your heart beats, I don’t know how many thousands of times per day. That’s a lot of work. You’re not even aware that your heartbeat is beating right now until I bring it to your awareness that your heart is beating right now. And even that, you’re probably not feeling it viscerally. You’re literally understanding analytically, “okay, yeah, my heart is beating right now.” But what? What? What electromagnetics, what energy is keeping that heartbeat going? That is universal mind. That is divine consciousness. That is what we can call (and we all understand, without the dogma) that is God.

As I mentioned before, you look at your wounds. You get a paper cut. That paper cut’s going to heal. The AMA, the American Medical Association, does not need to have a meeting or a conference to talk about your paper cut. The universe, without any external assistance, the universe automatically heals the paper cut. That is the intelligence, and that intelligence runs through the entire cosmos.

So, what’s important to understand is that you are not a small being trying to survive, which is probably how you’ve been living. I did for decades. I’ll repeat: you are not a small being trying to survive. You are the universal intelligence expressing itself in human form.

Now, to prove that, you think it’s you that does everything. But I want to show you it’s not you. It is the consciousness and awareness in you. If you’re at home, in your office, somewhere that you’re not driving, your full attention is not required, look at your hand. Just look at your hand right now and ask yourself, “am I my hand?” And you’re going to say, “no, I am not my hand.” But if the hand is attached to the body and the hand is the same as the body, what that logically means is if you’re not the hand, you are also not the body.
But what are you? You are the consciousness. You, meaning the “I” in you, you are the consciousness that literally runs through the body. And that’s a big thing to recognize. Because we attribute all of our reality and our identity to the body, and then we give it a qualification in the name, and then we live from that qualification in that name.

And if you look around (you know, I don’t ever want to be disrespectful to other people in my industry). But there are people in my industry that really think they’re helping a lot of people. And ostensibly they are, but they’re helping blind people. Now, when I say blind people, I don’t mean physically blind. I mean, spiritually blind.

Really good friend of mine. At one point, he’s kind of chilled out. He’s made, I don’t know how many hundreds of millions of dollars online. Many years ago, back when he started (he’s been in business now since 2013). I’ve coached him. We’re good friends. And I was his coach. And I listened to one of his, I don’t know, videos or whatever it was. And I said, “dude,” and I had the relationship where I could say this. I said, “dude, you were the blind leading the blinder.” And he said, “what do you mean?” And I explained to him what I’m explaining now to you.

The blind are people that tell you, “you’ve got to hustle. You’ve got to grind. You’ve got to take massive action.” And that is the only way for you to get what you want in life when your hand (meaning your physical body). When your physical body—and by the way, we do have to get in action, but through intention and consciousness, not through brute force, because then you become, what I’ve said before, you become a beast of burden.

When you forget that you are a being of consciousness (you can even call it a spiritual being). But when you forget that you are a being of consciousness—notice I didn’t say a being with consciousness, a being of consciousness. When you are a being of consciousness, in that moment, you remember who and what you are. And when you remember who and what you are, in that moment is when your power starts returning to you.

The life that you’re living, you were never meant to live life alone. You were never meant to struggle, which is why I used the phrase a couple of minutes ago, “beast of burden.” We do that through lack of awareness. We do that because we’re not aware that we are one with the infinite. We are one with (and for me, I’ve got to pick, I’ve got to find the word and just settle on it). But divine mind, you’re one of divine mind, you’re one of God.

I tend to avoid the word God, yet it fits for me because I’m not religious, but I am spiritual. But there are so many, humanity has bastardized that term God. There’s so many negative connotations to that word God that (for example, me growing up in the South, I grew up in a Baptist area, fundamentally Baptist). So for me, I had very negative hail and brimstone experiences with God that I’m like, “let me the hell away from this stuff.” It doesn’t resonate with me at a soulful level. But I’m going back to using the word God, and that’s probably the word that I’ll settle on. But again, I’m careful because a lot of people have very negative associations to that word God when it’s simply a generic word.

But anyway, we’ve learned that we have to struggle and hustle and be the beast of burden when we work from (again, to be repetitive) the hand and the body, and we see the hand and the body as us. But it’s not us. It is the container for the consciousness, which is us, which is the soul.

Okay, so I had originally wanted to finish these two episodes, meaning this would be the second episode. I see that I’m going to have to do a third episode, which will be the next episode. And the reason why I don’t want to keep going here is, there’s an old phrase (and I know some of my episodes can go longer). But there’s a phrase that “the mind can only absorb as long as the butt can sit.” And being a professional speaker many years ago, I recognized the truth in that.

And I’ve given you a lot in this episode. What I request: do not dismiss it. Let it sink into you, like letting water sink into the soil. Let it sink into you. And what I want you to take away with you now, just an aha, and play with it this week. Play with it until the next episode.

When I had you look at the hand, okay, we could say, “this is my hand.” Yes, this is my hand. Same thing with you. But when I said, “are you your hand?” you automatically (I don’t know anyone that said yes, honestly, and the amount of people I’ve asked). When I said, “are you your hand?” you say, “no.”

But if your hand is part of the body, and the body and the hand are the same, then you, as I’ve already said (think about this, okay? This is your homework this week). You are not the body. So if you’re not the body, what are you? What you are is the conscious awareness of the body. Hopefully this makes sense. And when you start understanding that you’re not the human being, the physical container, you are the awareness of that physical container. Now you start reclaiming your power.

Thanks for listening, and I’ll catch you over on another episode. Bye-bye.