You’re listening to the Transform Your Life from the Inside Out podcast. This episode is titled, How You Were Spiritually Mugged and How to Take Back Your Power. You know, I’m going to stop sugarcoating it. I use the word in the headline is, you were spiritually mugged. In this episode, I’ll explain what that means and what that has cost you. But the reality is, before you were even seven years old, someone ambushed your consciousness. Someone ambushed your divine consciousness. And what they did is they stripped away your divine authority and your awareness and left you leaving as a human being in a world that you’ve learned to believe is heavy and it creates a lot of fear. And you’re in this container trap. Most people are called a human being. Ponder this. Many people have spent their entire lifetime defending a persona that they didn’t even choose for themselves. that you were brainwashed into, you learned the role and the role keeps you trapped. And guess what? It’s time to escape the brainwashing. 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 it’s time to escape the brainwashing. First off, and I mentioned this last week, I’m in a rental right now. I moved to Colorado from Sedona. And I’m living in a rental, which was actually very challenging to get. And I had to take what I could get. So this is not me. I’m not some YouTube kid doing my podcast and YouTube and all that from a bedroom in my apartment. I’m just doing the best I can to get by right now and get all this done for you guys.
Let’s talk about how you were spiritually mugged. And more than anything, the brutal price that you pay every day for staying silent, because you don’t even know this mugging happened. And what I really want to start looking at is how to start exiting the human lie. Start exiting the brainwashing. So we’re going to take this apart. This is going to be a short episode, but I think each and every one of these parts that I share with you will be an epiphany, will be an aha for you, and will help you to start understanding that you’ve been living a life that was created for you today by someone that came before you, someone that indoctrinated you, and you’ve heard me use that word before, and through cultural and systemic brainwashing.
Okay, so the early ambush. Now, how did this happen? As I’d mentioned in the intro, you know, your parents, your teacher, your culture, all these organizations and institutions and people, basically what they did, I’m laughing at this word, they cornered your awareness before you were even old enough to question reality. Here’s a way to think about this. What they did, I’m going to back up here. Working with a shaman now for 30 years, he constantly will use this phrase that for many years I didn’t understand. When I would ask him for help on something, he would constantly say, I need data, meaning he needs information. Now, what I didn’t recognize over the years was that we’ve all been handed data. Now, think about this. We’ve all been handed a data package. When we’re born, this data package comes from the economy, from your parents, from media, from school, from everything in our environment. And the data package that we actually were, you know, we inherited, the data package that was given to us, number one, was a corrupted data package, like a corrupted file on a computer. But here’s the crazy thing. This data package defined who you are, it defined what you’re allowed to achieve, and it defined your fears and what you’re allowed to have in life. And when you think about it in that way, what really just dawned on me is like, oh my God, we all live an information packet. And this information packet is the model of reality that’s given to us by our parents and our culture and our family and our friends and our media and everything else.
And what this creates is data package. I think back, and the motivational speakers talk about this a lot, it’s the example of the fleas. And about 100 years ago, there was this experiment where what they would do, these researchers, these scientists, whoever did it, what they would do is they would put fleas in a glass jar. And fleas, I don’t know if you know anything about fleas, but fleas are mega jumpers. I mean, fleas can jump, I don’t know, like many, many, many, many times their height. So they’d put these fleas in little glass jars. And what would happen is they’d put a lid on the jar. And the fleas would learn that eventually they couldn’t get out of the jar because they would always hit the lid. Now, this is kind of like an inane and very simple rah-rah motivational example. But it’s true also about your identity. But I don’t mean identity in the way that I used to mean it, like your human identity. I mean, we literally been put in a jar that’s literally kept us from finding, from exploring, from understanding our soulful identity. So what happens is, in these experiments, fleas are put in a jar, a lid is put in a jar, fleas try to hop out of a jar, and because there’s a lid, what they learn is that they can’t hop out. So what fleas eventually accept is that no matter what they do, they can’t hop out of the jar. And what they do is they stop trying to hop out of the jar. So then, collectively speaking, fleas learn this. And then future generations of fleas, so to speak, don’t even try to jump out of the jar because they’ve learned collectively they cannot jump out of the jar.
As I’m sharing that with you, in the introduction, I talked about your limitations being handed to you like a data package. We have these data packages that are given to us. And again, the data is about culture and science and religion and politics and all these kind of things. We have these data packages given to us as very small children. And then we learn the data package. And then we forget we learned the data package. And we live in that data package, which is the brainwashing our entire lifetime. And we don’t even know that we can actually, we can exit our life experience. Like wherever you might be right now is because of your data package. Now, again, I’m not talking in terms of what I’ve done for 15 years or longer. I’m not talking in terms of human identity, meaning your data package might say that you’re lazy or not committed or unmotivated or you’re, you know, you’re not responsible or self-intentioned. I don’t mean data packages that pertain to the 3D ego. What I mean is data packages that pertain to the soulfulness of you. Your data package that you inherited basically says, if I ask you right now, what are you, you would say a human being. And then you have all the data with that package. But you’re not that.
And then living in the world, and I have to throw myself under the bus as well. I have to be transparent. I have to be honest. You may or may not know, I don’t know how long you’ve listened to the podcast, but for many years, I did a program called the Transformational Coaching Program. And I’ve had thousands of people from all around the world register for that program, go through it. And we’ve made a dramatic impact in many thousands of people’s lives all around the world. I was of the mindset that, you know what, we really do help people live better lives in a very significant way. What I used to talk about is at the level of the subconscious identity. So I help people shift their subconscious identity. But what I recognized, and I think you might’ve heard me talk about it on the last podcast, what I recognized is that was like moving chairs on the Titanic. And that, you know what, you can shift one part of the identity, but there’s still another part of the identity that needs to be shifted when you’re working within the context of the human identity, the human frame, and the human data package. When we’re not even human, we’re literally actually consciousness that is incarnated into a human body.
So the personal development industry is a billion-dollar industry. And the irony is, as I mentioned before, is my podcast is one of the top in the world in the personal development industry. And I’m at a point now where I’m like, I am not about personal development. Because personal development is simply rearranging the chairs on the Titanic. Why would I rearrange the chairs on the Titanic instead of building you an entirely new ship? And that’s where I’m working from these days, is helping people metaphorically build an entirely new ship, which is an entirely new data package, an entirely new understanding of even what it means to incarnate on the planet and to be into a physical body. And here’s the irony. Here’s the trap that I missed for many years. Why, because see, I was also a product of the brainwashing.
When people get into personal development, they go through the whole genre of things to do. Maybe it’s the morning hacks, maybe it’s the journaling, maybe it’s the affirmations, maybe the morning rituals, maybe the breath work, whatever it might be. Okay, so the thing about personal development, and candidly, I was a product of the brainwashing that you’ve been through as well. I just, again, was moving chairs on the Titanic. In personal development, there are many different approaches, but we’re taught basically mindset hacks. We’re taught affirmations. We’re taught morning rituals. We’re taught journaling. We’re taught scripting. We’re taught self-hypnosis. We’re taught breathing exercises, mindfulness, all these kinds of things. But what I never noticed, and I now know that I’m sharing with people, guess what, these exact activities, these activities, what they simply do inadvertently is confirm that you are broken. Meaning if you weren’t air quote, I’m going to just use that word, but there’s a better word. But if you weren’t air quote broken, or if there wasn’t something wrong with you, you wouldn’t be using the hacks in the first place. So then what you do is you use the hacks to become unbroken, to fix yourself. And inadvertently, what you’re projecting into consciousness is I’m broken. There’s something wrong with me. There’s something in my system that’s wrong.
I’m going to go back here to an author, a book I read many years ago. I met this woman several years ago. In my humble opinion, it’s one of the most amazing books I’ve ever read, Anita Moorjani. The book is Dying to Be Me. Now, I can validate and corroborate something she said in her book. She had a near-death experience and had a terminal illness. And she said, the easiest way to heal is to need no healing. Think about that. The easiest way to heal is to need no healing. So when we have something that needs to be healed, maybe it’s our heart in terms of our love, our relationship, maybe it’s money, maybe it’s whatever it might be, maybe in our health. What we do is we then, from the ego perspective, we try to heal that. But as we’re trying to heal that, what we are inadvertently also projecting to the universe in that exact same moment is, whoa, universe, something is broken. So one part of us is saying, okay, something needs to be healed. And the other part of us is saying, okay, I got to do all these things to heal it.
And the more things we do to heal it, whether it’s money or relationships or whatever it might be, the harder we work on healing something, again, money, relationships, health, wellness, whatever, the harder we work on trying to heal something, the bigger data package, the bigger loudspeaker we’re projecting to the universe that something is broken. And because the universe corresponds to you, you’re yelling metaphorically, hey, universe, I’m broken, I’m broken, I’m broken, I’m sick, I’m sick, I’m sick. Heal me, heal me, heal me. Exercise, do this, do the breathing, do the hypnosis, do the scripting, do all these kind of things, and you’re doing these things to fix yourself, as you’re listening right now, you’ve done all that, haven’t you? Every bit of it. Me too. So we’ve done all that. But again, I’m being a little repetitive here, but please get this. The more that you try to fix something, the more that you are also broadcasting that you don’t have it in your life. And the more you project that, the more of that you create. We literally, by virtue of trying to improve ourself, we’re telling the universe we need improvement, which is where our consciousness is, which is why for most people, things never change for us.
Hopefully that makes sense for you. You could be thinking, well, okay, Jim, I’m going to just keep doing my personal development stuff. I’m going to keep air quote, and trust me when I tell you, I did this for decades. I’m going to air quote, work on myself. And I’m not telling you not to work on yourself, but I’m telling you there’s a different way to do it that actually works as opposed to the grind of constantly having to work and having to work. And the affirmations, which by the way, don’t work because affirmations, you could say, for example, you might speak affirmations about money. And let’s say that you don’t have any money. And let’s say you start an affirmation of, I’m a millionaire, I’m a millionaire, or whatever. You’ve heard from some motivational speaker. Well, by virtue of doing that, and it’s very subtle, you’re actually reinforcing you don’t have freaking money in the first place. Trust me when I tell you that was my big one. I grew up poor. We didn’t have any money. And I affirmed and affirmed. And if you’ve listened for any amount of time, you heard me say that back in the 90s, I read over 5,000 books on wealth and money and creation and manifestation. But yet I remain broke.
And I’m going to tell you now that financially, I’m very wealthy. And you know, the interesting thing is this. When you’re very wealthy, you don’t think about creating money. Look at Steve Jobs as a perfect example. Steve Jobs did not set out to make money. Steve Jobs set out to live his dharma and the money came automatically. Now, I’m not saying that, for example, your job might be a money manager or something like that. I get that totally. But what I’m saying, the more you broadcast, and when I say broadcast, what I mean is the more you project in your consciousness and your thinking, the more you project you do not have something, therefore I’m doing the work to create it, you’re simultaneously telling the universe in that exact moment you do not have it, and that’s what the universe corresponds to. Hopefully you can see the trap that it is, even though it’s very subtle, which is why most people stay stuck for an entire lifetime.
So if you do nothing, what’s going to happen? You can listen, you can not listen. I can’t make you do anything. However, the way that I look at the body, the body is nothing more than a container and a costume. And many people are dying in the container and the costume, not even recognizing that they’re dying in the container and the costume. They know that it’s suffocating and they want out of the costume. But they’re fighting the costume to get out of the costume, which keeps them in the costume. So a couple of choices. You can die inside the costume, and that’s totally your free will. That’s totally your free choice. Or you can decide to exit the brainwashing, which is what I’m now helping people do.
Something that I learned long ago, and I’ve used that word many times before, that word indoctrination. It’s such a brutal word. Because we see that as people being waterboarded and all these kind of things in North Korea and Russia and East Germany. And of course, they’re indoctrinated. And then in the West, we look at that and think, well, that’s not me. But we are indoctrinated. But here’s where I want to go a little further than what I’ve been taking you before. Yeah, we’re indoctrinated. But do you recognize that every fear, every thought about survival that you have right now, every fear, every idea, every reaction, every illusion, simply is you living from the indoctrinated ideas of human beings that came to the planet before you. Meaning it’s all an illusion. None of it is real other than the fact that you perceive it as real and you live in it and it strips all of your power away. When you get that, your life will start changing dramatically.
Okay, so now what do you want to do? What we want to do is we want to start exiting the human lie. So I’m going to give you a couple of things here to think about. And I want to keep this episode short, again, because I’m living at a rental right now. I’m in Colorado, and the rental that I’m living in doesn’t have any air conditioning. And we’re having this heat dome out in the West right now. So I’m sitting right now in a 93-degree room with basically not a lot of ventilation here. So I’m going to keep this episode really short, but I’m going to give you some real meat and potatoes to take with you in this episode. And then we’ll build on this as we go to other episodes. And I have other ways that I can be of service to you.
All right. Number one, recognize this. This is like so counterintuitive. And trust me, I’ve been there when I had the heart failure and the stroke in 2020. And I even mentioned last week that I ended up in the hospital last week with a seizure. And basically, it was just an extreme imbalance in my electrolytes. The CT scan showed that everything is fine. And even if it wasn’t fine, I know that I’m still going to be fine because I know how to heal without actually healing. Now, let me explain that. Remember what I said about Anita Moorjani. And by the way, this can apply to your money, your relationships, everything. Anita Moorjani said, The easiest and surest way to heal is to need no healing. So that being said, recognize this. You do not need to heal. You do not need to optimize. You do not need to fix the human character and the human identity that you think that you are.
So if your name is Bob or Susan, Bob and Susan thinks they need to fix Bob and Susan. But that, based upon what I said earlier, is what keeps them trapped and all the crap that Bob and Susan are dealing with. What we need to do is step out of the human identity entirely. And we need to become what I call the observer or the awareness of the human identity. We need to recognize that, hey, I’m in my human identity shit. But what we do is we get in the human identity shit, the fear and all these kind of things and the anger. And it’s like a play, a theatrical play. And we play out all this drama, but all this drama is held by the ego, all the brainwashing. And we need to learn, which I will help people with, to step aside from that and be the observer of all of that. And you might have heard Buddhism talk about stuff like that over the decades or whatever spiritual path you may be following.
Okay, something else here. So that’s tip number one. Number two is, and this was a big one for me when I learned this. We are under the illusion because of the brainwashing. The brainwashing can tell us, for example, I was doing a call earlier today. And I’m not criticizing you if this applies to you, okay, because this did apply to me probably 25 years ago. So right now in the US, gas prices are something like, I don’t know, five bucks a gallon. And people are moaning, millions of people are moaning about how high gas prices are, etc. What they’re moaning about are circumstances. They’re moaning about circumstances, but not even recognizing that circumstances, literally, it’s like a temporary picture on TV. You can actually freeze frame a TV and you see a picture. But guess what? That picture is temporary because it’s a circumstance of what’s playing in that TV right now. It’s not real. It’s just transient. But what we do as humans, we see our circumstances as real and then we respond and put all of our consciousness in the circumstance and therefore we actually expand the negative circumstance that we do not want.
What we’ve got to do is take a breath, take a step back, shut off the, what I call, and I’ve been there before, shut off the personal panic button and… ready? Here’s the key. And many people have a challenge with this because it’s just so not familiar. We have to let infinite intelligence run the show. In Christianity, and by the way, I’m not a Christian, I’m a spiritualist, but in Christianity, they say something, or I don’t know, like Alcoholics Anonymous or somewhere, let go, let God. But we humans and our arrogance and our data package and our brainwashing thing, no. I have to run all this. I have to do this. And if I don’t do this, my life’s going to go to shit. We have to do things, okay? And this is what in shamanism they call the doing and the not doing. We have to do things, but what we do is we attach to the doing and then we actually identify as all the problems of the doing. People will say, I’m doing all these things so I don’t lose my house. I’m doing all these things so I heal. And they identify as someone who has no money or they are sick or whatever it is. We have to step back and let universal intelligence, which is far more intelligent than you are as an individual, we have to let infinite intelligence run the show.
Now, the simplest example that I can give you, and I’ve used it over and over and over again on this podcast. Let’s say that you’re in the kitchen cooking dinner and you cut your finger. Well, that finger, what you do, and I had this from the last episode, you go to, you know, have band-aids, you go to the bathroom, grab a band-aid or wherever you keep your band-aids, and you put it on the cut and you forget about it. You forget about it. You’re not pulling the band-aid off every day going, oh, okay, is this healed? Oh, shit, it’s not healed yet. Is it healed? Is it healed? No. You leave it alone and you let divine, infinite, universal intelligence take care of the healing. If the divine, universal intelligence can take care of the healing of your finger and the cut, don’t you suppose it can take care of every single thing in your life?
But what you do and what we do and what I’ve done is we get in the data package and we say, well, a finger, a little paper cut, that’s no big deal, Jim. But if I need $10 million, oh my God, that’s a big deal. Or if I broke my leg or whatever, we tend to qualify in the mind, small, big, et cetera. And small things, we have a data package where we think, oh, small things are really easy, but big things are really hard. And the thing about things being big, then we create more resistance because we think it’s bigger because it’s harder. And we create more resistance and it’s kind of like heavy lifting. We have to make it happen, not even recognizing the universe we live in doesn’t know the difference between minuscule small or massive. The universe doesn’t know the difference between an ant, so to speak, and a planet. It’s all part of universal intelligence.
So please take from this episode, if nothing else right now, all limitations that you’re living from and that are creating what you do not want in life, these are all illusions that you’ve been brainwashed and conditioned into being and living from. Now here, I know you’re already wondering at this point, okay, Jim, how do I get out of this? The same way you got into it. You have been conditioned to live inside the illusion that you were first a human being. Now, you might think, well, okay, Jim, that’s not trauma, spiritual being having a human experience. Well, if you really knew that at a foundationally core level, then why would you struggle with money or health or relationships or loneliness or anything, which means you may understand it, but you do not know it.
So recognize this. You’ve been conditioned. Yes, you listening right now have been conditioned into the illusion from data packages, meaning what’s given you as a child. You’ve been conditioned into the illusion that you are predominantly a human being. And you’ve heard me say before, when you identify predominantly as a human being, you then inherit all the limitations of being human. So what you want to do, stop. Just stop trying to repair the human identity, the human ego. Because see, you weren’t that anyway. As I just talked about earlier, even though you may be living that, you’ve been conditioned to be that, which means it’s not you. It’s not soulful. It’s what you’ve been conditioned to be. Stop trying to repair the human identity that you never were in the first place. Your soul identity was stolen from you, and it’s time to recover it.
Now, I don’t know when you’re going to be listening to this episode. I don’t know if it’s going to be now. I don’t know if it’s going to be two years from now. I don’t even know if I’ll be on the planet in two years. I intend to be. I don’t even know if I’ll be doing the podcast in two years. I don’t know. I don’t know what’s going to happen tomorrow. I normally don’t promote things inside the episode, but I’m going to share something with you right now. So if you want to see how brainwashed you have become, even if you think you’re not, then take my 10-question unbrainwashed audit. Do it right now. Go to jimfortin.com/brainwashed and you can take the audit. It’ll take you less than two minutes, and it’ll show you how much data from the outside world has been downloaded into this container you call you and how much of it keeps you trapped.
Now, I won’t do it in that exact way, but as you’re reading the questions, you’re going to be like, oh my God, I can relate to this. I can relate to this. I can relate to this. I can relate to this. And you’ll be able to see that all your conditioning has come from outside of you and that is literally, as I talked about earlier, mugged you spiritually. For lack of better words, it’s turned you into a consummate human being and all the limitations of being human, and it’s robbed you of your spiritual authority, your spiritual power, and your spiritual seniority.
And then my final comment here, you’ve heard me talk about, I have a new program. I’m no longer doing the Transformational Coaching Program. And again, I don’t know when you’ll be listening to this, and this will be inside the episode, but my new program, Brainwashed: Exit the Human Lie, opens really, really soon. As a matter of fact, by the time you’re listening to this episode, doors are going to be open. And again, I don’t know when you’ll be listening, so you could be listening two years from now going, what the hell are you talking about? The doors are closed. I’m just telling you that now. But I tell you that mainly because I want you to start thinking about this. Please, I request. Start thinking about this.
And what I know is that many of you are wanting this. Even though the podcast has millions of downloads, most people don’t take action with anything they get here. And I’m just being candid. You can be mad at me for telling you that. That’s entirely up to you. But there’s already 700 people on the wait list for when the doors open for brainwashed. We have to exit the human lie. And to find a chance you’re listening to this two years or three years, it’s 2026 right now. And let’s say that I’m not doing the podcast. I don’t know where I’ll be in two years or what I’ll be doing. And you hear this, well, then guess what? Just disregard it and take what you learned and go on down the road.
I appreciate you listening. And if this resonates in any way, again, go over to jimfortin.com/brainwashed and take the audit and share this with other people in your life. Because guess what? If you’re finding value here, they’re going to be finding value also. Thanks for listening, and I’ll catch you over on another episode. Bye-bye.