You’re listening to the Transform Your Life from the Inside Out podcast. This episode is titled, “You Have No Birth Date.” Ponder that. If I asked you right now what your birth date is, you would say, I don’t know, January the 27th, February the 8th, whatever it might be. But the reality is, you have no birth date. And I’ll explain in this episode. Many times I ask people, who were you or where were you before you got here? And many people are like, well, I don’t know. Or a stock answer might be, well, I’m energy. Well, I want to go deeper in this episode. And in this episode, what we want to look at is that when you understand that you have no birth date and you understand who you were before you incarnated, that is where your power is. That power is so powerful that you can’t even comprehend it from the 3D identity. So let’s dig into that this episode. 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, you have no birth date. I don’t know why, where, but I know where, from consciousness. This popped into my mind a couple of months ago, and I recognized, wait. And I started thinking about past lives, which I’ll talk about in just a moment, because there is no such thing as a past life. But I started thinking about, okay, if energy doesn’t die, and we have past lives, meaning I have a past life, I, as soul and energy, never die, which means if I never die, I cannot birth, at least at a soul level, therefore I have no birth date. Because when we talk about birth date, we’re simply thinking about, okay, the birth date, meaning the incarnation date of the 3D container. So many people, when they think about past lives, I was having a conversation with Don Javier about this many years ago, and he said, we don’t have past lives. Your soul is continual.
Continual, basically what that means is continual is something happening over and over again with breaks in between. So if you look at your incarnations, they are continual, meaning the incarnations of the 3D, they happen over and over, and the break in between is when we, we have it backwards as humans, when we think we die, actually then we are returning to source, and then we’re born again to the totality of us. When I use the word born, again, we don’t have a birth date, but we are emerging with soul energy. Right now, when we think of birth dates, that’s your 3D life and the continual over and over with breaks in between. However, your soul is continuous. Continuous means something is happening constantly without pausing. So your 3D, meaning the container of skin that you are in right now, this current individual life that you are living right now, is basically continual. We go from lifetime to lifetime to lifetime, from incarnation to incarnation to incarnation, and all these incarnations have different human 3D identities. But the soul, the soul is continuous, meaning it never dies. It just continues for eternity.
When we identify a soul, which is where our power is, your power is not in your 3D identity. Your power is in your soul. And when you identify, and this is what I’m going to help people with starting in the Brainwash program, when we’ll offer that, I don’t know, a couple of months. This right now is June 2026. Maybe by August 2026, we’ll be offering Brainwashed. But we have to come to know ourself as soul. And because soul is continuous, that is where our power is.
So what we have to recognize right now, the way that I started this episode, you, meaning your soul, has no birth date. The power of you, the seniority of you, has no birth date. The container of you, Bob or John or Susan or Helen or Miriam or whatever your name is, you have a birth date because you have incarnated. So I would rather say, instead of what is your birth date, what is your incarnation date? Now, I know that sounds kind of hokey and weird and etc., but that is true. So to assume you have a birth date, that assumes that there is a static understanding of life. And that static understanding of life, meaning I’m born, I live, I die, that static understanding of life, not true. Physics disproves it. It’s all a 3D model of reality. And your 3D model of reality, there’s almost pretty much no power in your 3D model of reality. All of your power, which everyone wants to feel powerful, all of your power is on the other side of that 3D reality, yet we’ve been conditioned as a species to literally live exclusively in the 3D reality.
So if your body is continual and your soul is continuous, where does your life force come from? Is your life force continual or continuous? Your life force, which is soul, which is consciousness, is continuous. That is where your power is. When you get this, and I mean when you profoundly get this, not just analytically, not just, okay, Jim, I understand you analytically, but when you come to know this, this is power because this is also what I call remembrance, soul remembrance. And that is remembering what you are and where you come from.
Okay, now this is going to piss some people off. Generally, people who listen, I’ve done this for seven years, this particular podcast. Many people are actually trying to escape. They’re generally very spiritual and trying to escape organized religion, which is what I did for decades. However, what most people don’t recognize is that organized religion steals your power. Think about that. Organized religion steals your power, which we’ll talk about a little bit. And to piss people off even more, the people who teach manifestation, you know, there’s so many people, blah, blah, blah about manifestation. Manifestation teaches you, tell you what, right now you are at point A in life and you want to go to point B in life. Well, the problem with that, that means that you’re thinking entirely in linear 3D. But here’s the kicker. When you were thinking, here’s what I am, here’s where I am, here’s what I desire, now I have to manifest whatever it is that gets me from point A to point B. But the problem and the great misunderstanding that most people have is that thinking quite literally assumes there’s a separation between point A and point B.
Now, analytically, we can say, yes, there is a separation between point A and point B. But in truth and consciousness, there is no separation between point A and point B because everything is coming from the thinking substance that is, which is universal life force or soul. Knowing the truth, and I don’t think anyone listening would say, oh, I don’t have a soul. You might not know yourself as soul, but I don’t think anyone would say, I do not have a soul. But the question is, let’s use the word if. If you are soul, then how can point B be separate from point A at a soul level? It can’t. They are the same thing. It is the individual mind, the 3D container mind, that creates the separation between you and what it is you may desire in life. Think about that. Because there is no separation.
No. I talked about religion a couple of minutes ago. So to think about religion, and I’ve chosen my words carefully here. I grew up in a religious Southern Baptist environment. My parents were not heavy churchgoers, but we had to go to church at certain events, and even when you went to funerals. I remember when I graduated from high school, I think what’s called the baccalaureate service or whatever, baccalaureate, whatever, however you pronounce that, the high school students, the seniors, went to this service at the Baptist Tabernacle Church. And I remember this was 40 years ago, thereabouts. Longer than that, 43, 44 years ago. And Brother Gene Horton was the pastor at Rio Hondo Baptist Church, where I grew up, Rio Hondo, Texas. Little hole in the wall, basically. And that speech for graduating seniors was so full of, you are going to burn in the fires of hell. And I am not exaggerating, because I remember thinking now, 40-something years later, what the hell was this dude thinking? These are kids, 18-year-old kids, looking at the possibility in the world and, you know, going out in the world and we’re becoming adults. And this preacher is saying, you’re going to go to hell and you’re a sinner and all these kind of things. He was a very fundamental Baptist preacher.
Think about religion. It teaches human beings, I learned this in church, to act like beggars before some divine, heavenly throne, omnipotent, omniscient being, and we have to plead for what I call coins of mercy. We have to plead for scraps. We have to plead for wealth and health and peace and all these things that are our birthright. So this organized religion separates you from the truth of who you are. Many of us, we want all these external things. And then we think all these external things in life are going to fix us. But they’re not. But what I want to share with you is it’s not the external things in life. It’s the internal state, the internal awareness. The power is not in the external things that make us happy. The power is in the internal soulfulness of us, that automatically when we live from that place creates all these external things.
Okay, so let me go back to my point A and point B example. Can you imagine for one moment, let’s say you’re watching, you’re standing on the beach and you’re watching the waves, you’re watching the oceans. And I grew up near an area called South Padre Island, Texas. Big spring break spot. We used to go to the beach quite a bit. I mean, a lot. My family would go to the beach every weekend. We’d camp on the beach every weekend. And I remember wading in the waves one time, looking at the waves and just watching them and watching the waves roll in. And you have the bigger waves and you have the smaller waves. Can you ever imagine a smaller wave saying, hey, bigger wave, I’m dry. I need to be wetter. Help me, big wave. I’m a little wave. Help me be wetter. No, not at all. Because they are one in the same. They are both from universal substance.
Now, do you see where I’m going here? You are one in the same from your iPhone, your Android, your desk, your couch, your Stairmaster, your gym, wherever you are right now. You are one in the same in the truth that guess what? Whatever you’re sitting on, or wearing, or looking at the wristwatch on your arm, or the picture behind you, everything came from universal life force substance. You came from universal life force substance. You are in different molecular form, yet you, like everything else in the universe, came from universal life substance. That’s where we need to learn to understand ourself from, is we are… let me slow down. You listening right now, you are life force, but you are substance. Ponder that. You came from nowhere into incarnation, into this physical 3D life that you’re living, but came into substance. But what preceded the substance? What preceded the substance was the universal life force, which is the one and only substance that created other substance. The big waves are what create the little waves, I guess, so to speak, or the ocean currents from the movement of the moon and gravitational pull, okay? But the little wave came from the same substance as the substance.
But what we tend to do, and they say that this is Newtonian-Cartesian, meaning Sir Isaac Newton and Descartes. Sir Isaac Newton and Descartes taught that the universe worked like a mechanistic machine. And the mechanistic machine was full of all of these individual parts. Now, hundreds of years later, quantum physics came along and said, no, no, no. That’s not the way that it works. Everything is part of the quantum soup. That’s not what Einstein called it, or Bohm, or any of them. We are literally part of the conscious, like a web of consciousness, consciousness soup. But we are taught to live from the mechanistic universe, meaning I am separate from everything, and then to get what I want to manifest, I, this container, I have to create. But whatever I create, number one, again, this individual container came from the one substance, and everything that I manifest or create also comes from the one substance.
I’d like to keep this episode really simple. And as I often say many times, less is more. Even if you don’t recognize it, what you really want, what everyone wants in life without even recognizing it, I don’t care if it’s a drug dealer, I don’t care if it’s a homeless person, I don’t care if it’s a multibillionaire, everyone wants what they think is power. We want the power to have health, to have love. We want the power to have money. Many people want the power for the adulation, for the respect, for the social prominence, whatever it is. So we all want power, but the mistake that most people make, and I really started putting this together a couple of years ago. One of my very good friends, we just chatted this morning, is Mr. Gary Zukav. Gary was on Oprah 36 times. He wrote Seat of the Soul. If you’ve not read it, I highly recommend it. His last book, called Universal Human, talks about how the old structures are collapsing.
Now, the old structures literally are what we perceive to be external power. And this is becoming an outdated model for humanity. Now, the external structures are money power, political power, social power. And we see people in Washington doing stupid, what I call, I’m just being judgmental, stupid, ridiculous things by chasing power. That’s not power. If they truly had power, then why do these dudes and women and people who chase the external power, if they truly had power and understood power, why do they kick the bucket when they’re 42 years old from cancer? Why are they making a lot of money and then going broke? So we have to understand, look around you, and this is very defensible, is that the old power structures that humans believe represent power, they’re crumbling right before your eyes. Whether it be social power, whether it be governments, whatever it is. And these people that are chasing all this, the money and the political and the social, all this power, these people are scrambling. Look at Xi or China. Look at Putin. Look at Iran. Look at that dude up at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. All these people are chasing, they’re scrambling to keep their power. And this power is an old model of consciousness that is crumbling right before your eyes and their eyes, but they don’t know why it’s crumbling. And the reason that it’s crumbling is because humans as a species are evolving into higher levels of conscious awareness.
We’re evolving from the primary 3D beings to 5D beings. We are evolving to a place where we understand ourself no longer as the mechanical human being, the incarnate, the container, we are beginning to understand ourself as, oh, we are essence. We are divine mind. We are consciousness.
Okay, so let’s talk here for a second about your health, your money, and your relationship. The three biggies. Like I said earlier, I know that you want more power in these areas because we all do and there’s nothing wrong with that. Okay, so keep this one phrase in mind, and we’re going to come back to it in just a bit. Now, the one phrase or one sentence or one thought that I want to share is that often we think, I need more money. I need love. We might not say we need love, but we will say, I’m lonely, which inadvertently what we’re saying is, I need love. Or we will say, I need better health. I need more strength. I need more energy. So keep this in mind. Notice what I said, okay? Often we think the operative word, we often think I, the operative word is need. I need XYZ in my life.
So then what we do is we think, okay, I am here, point A. I, at point A, need point B. So then what we do is I, at point A, we chase point B. So what I’m going to share with you right now is stop chasing. Go back to the premise I said earlier. Everything comes from the one substance. So if everything comes from the one substance, everything is part of the one substance. If everything is part of the one substance, you don’t have to chase anything because being part of the one substance, you are already that thing, but you create the separation through the mechanistic thinking from Descartes and Newton. So what we do, thinking we’re at point A and we want to go to point B, is we think, okay, I’m at point A, but how do I get to point B to get what I think I need or what I want.
Now, here’s where most people get trapped. We pace the floor back and forth. How? How? How? How? How do I get? How do I get? I don’t know. How do I get? Stop looking outside. Stop looking at the mechanization. Stop looking at the separation. Because when we think how, we think, okay, what path am I going to take? In business, it can be marketing. It can be, if we’re lonely, it can be a dating app. For work, we think that is the vehicle and avenue to get the money that we think that we need. And that’s all separation of thinking. That’s all 3D. As a matter of fact, not only 3D, it’s 3D noise. So for just a moment again, remember what I said a bit ago. And I’ve used this metaphor two or three times in our times together, different episodes. You got to go inside yourself. Like the small wave is the same substance as the big wave. You are the same substance as every single thing you are in the universe. Like the small wave knows there’s no separation from the big wave. It’s just smaller. We have to realize that we are both the smaller wave and the bigger wave.
Now, you’ve heard me use a word here that I picked this word up probably 25 years ago. A good friend of mine told me he was reading The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace Wattles. I read that many years ago, and the most prominent phrase in that book is, there is a thinking substance from which all things are made. There’s a thinking substance from which all things are made. What he did not say is that some things are made. Some things are made in China, but not in the USA. Some human beings are made from this, but some other human beings are not. There is a thinking substance from which all things are made. And what we do is compartmentalize it. We put it into different buckets, meaning the hammer is made from one thing, but I’m made from a different thing because I identify as a container, and this container is not a hammer. Therefore, I don’t think I’m made from the same material that the hammer is. And it might not be the same molecular structure, but everything is made from one thinking substance. What is that thinking substance? Starts with a C. Are you ready? Consciousness. You are the substance and you are the little substance and you are the whole of substance. You are the thinking substance. But anytime you say, I need, in that moment, bam, you have separated yourself from the thinking substance and you’ve literally retreated into the container and in the physical body, saying this physical body needs to create something out there at point B. You’re already lost. This is why so many people want so many things. That word want again, we’ll go there in a moment. So many people want so many things and they never, never come to acquire it.
Okay, so let’s talk about some application here, okay? Realize this. I was going to lunch one day about 10 years ago and I had the epiphany that truly, and back then I worked a bit more mechanistically, but I had the epiphany that anything that I want in life, I can pretty much have. Now, in that moment, I was thinking, okay, I may not currently have the resources or the connections or the time or whatever, but I know if it’s available to other people, I know that I can also have that thing. Now, the reason I share that with you is because what I did prior to that point, and I’m sure you’re listening, you do this. If you don’t do this, you’re one of the thousand that does not. We say, and what I said back then was, is I don’t have to want for anything. I simply have to intend it and be it. Because when I intend it and be it, I automatically am moving my consciousness to that place. But notice what I said for 50 years of my life. You probably say now, I want blank. I want a plane ticket. I want a boyfriend. I want a girlfriend. I want a new house. I want a new apartment. I want a new car. But now let me create separation. I can’t have it because I’m at point A. It’s at point B. I forgot that I’m part of the substance. Now, let me just struggle to get from point A to point B. Backwards, backwards, backwards, backwards thinking. So whatever that, I’m filling the blank, whatever that blank is that you want, which I said earlier, whatever that blank is that you want, the home, the car, the boyfriend, the girlfriend, the business, the money, whatever it is, every bit of that came from what I’ve already talked about, substance. And the second you say, I want that, in that second, you have separated yourself from substance. Do you see how you do that?
Again, I’m going to say it again. Anytime you say, I want blank. In that moment, you have created separation and substance. When in truth, big wave, little wave, there is no separation. You look at the ocean. You’re not separating the little wave from the big wave. They are all part of the substance of the ocean.
Over the years, we’re right at probably about 7 million downloads. I don’t know, somewhere in that range, maybe a little less. I don’t know. But we’re close to that. And in every episode, I’ve been giving you guys a transformational takeaway. And I’ve done that now for about 500 episodes. I decided yesterday, I’m no longer going to give you a transformational takeaway. I do not want to suggest to you the value for you to find in the episode. Because we’re all different. I want you to find the value that resonates with you. Because what resonates with Bob is not going to resonate with Mary and vice versa. Working with a shaman for many years, he used to say, and he still does from time to time, is I give you the answer, but I’m not going to give it to you directly. Because if I give you the answer, you will not fully integrate the answer. You will not value the answer, and you’re not going to appreciate the answer. And he said, so I’m going to give you the answer, but I’m going to hide it so that you find the answer. And he said, it’s kind of like hiding Easter eggs. Easter eggs, when you were a kid, the Easter eggs had a prize in them, but all the prizes were hidden. And if somebody just brought all the Easter eggs to you, what’s the fun in that? I mean, think about the fun is Easter egg hunting as a kid is you’ve got to go find the Easter eggs. And generally, like when I was a kid, there was always like a golden Easter egg that every kid wanted that had like maybe money in it or whatever. But we’re always looking for that golden Easter egg. But the reality is we got to go find the Easter egg. And when we find it, we value more. So when I give you the transformational takeaway, which I’ve done for 500 episodes, I give you the takeaway. It’s your turn to start finding the value for you, okay?
So I want to leave you with something. I’ve said this before. When you really get this, it’ll flip everything in your life to degrees you cannot even yet imagine. Do not think about this too analytically. Do not force it. Do not sit here and just like, I got to figure this out. Just simply let it float in your consciousness. I heard this many years ago. I understood it back then. And now I know it. Remember that word want that I talked about a bit ago? You don’t need to want anything because you are a part of everything. Here’s the final sentence that I want to leave you with. To need nothing is to have everything. To need nothing is to have everything. Because the second you say, I need blank, where’s your consciousness? How are you engaging with substance in that moment? You were literally telling substance, I need blank. Substance reflects back. So when you tell substance, I need money, what you’re telling substance is, I do not have money. And then substance, air quote, reads, you do not have money. Substance reflects that back to you and makes sure that you do not have money. I could break this down for you now, but I’m not going to do it right now because I really want you, I request that you explore, explore the profound, profound wisdom of to need nothing is to have everything.
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