The Basement: Danny Goler | The Laser Experiment and the Code Inside

Summary

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Episode: The Basement – Danny Goler | The Laser Experiment and the Code Inside
Date: July 6, 2026

Overview

In this episode, The Why Files dives into the mind-bending world of Danny Goler, known for his “laser experiment,” which he claims reveals the “source code” of reality during DMT experiences. The conversation explores whether reality is a simulation, the mechanisms of consciousness, AI, free will, ethical frameworks, and Goler's cosmology. Danny’s journey is equally personal and cosmic: from actor, parkour athlete, and filmmaker to a modern mystic probing the limits of human perception. The hosts quiz him on everything from competitive reality TV to his wildest psychedelic experiments, his spiritual practice, and the quest for objective validation of the profoundly subjective. The result is a sprawling, funny, and deeply philosophical exploration of what it means to be human in an age of mystery, technology, and self-discovery.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Danny Goler’s Journey: Origins, Hollywood, and Seeking Purpose

• [01:44] Danny recounts his background, from American Ninja Warrior to acting, directing, and eventually spiritual/philosophical exploration.
• Disillusioned by Hollywood’s “glass ceilings” and thirst for creative autonomy ([05:13]), he pivots toward questions about reality, consciousness, and existence itself.

Quote:
"It became very clear to me they're not calling the shots … there's only so far you can go. I don't know why, it kind of turned me off from that whole world." – Danny [05:13]

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2. Creativity, Remembrance, and the Nature of Inspiration

• [07:26] The hosts discuss Danny’s 2017 essay Contemplations of Meaning and the concept that creativity feels more like a rediscovery than an invention.

• Danny posits that both the universe and God may be using humans as nodes to rediscover cosmic memories:
  Quote:
  "We are one of these memories that God has … the cutting edge of what is possible in the universe is as a surprise to it as it is to the node that registers that experience, like ourselves." [07:58]

• Inspiration as a feedback loop: creativity may originate from future selves, cosmic memory, or shared collective fields ([09:20]).

• AI and large language models (LLMs) are discussed; Danny argues that true creative novelty probably requires conscious agency ([11:15]).

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3. Finite vs Infinite Games — Ethics, AI, and Civilization

• [14:15] Jordan Peterson’s “your turn” anecdote inspires discussion on why humans crave structure and how “ultimate freedom” can be paralyzing without some constraints.
• Danny introduces two archetypal games: the competitive (finite) and collaborative (infinite), arguing the future of humanity is predicated on moving toward the infinite, cooperative “game” ([15:05]).
• Ethics/alignment in AI and humanity:
  Quote:
  "The only thing you can rely on is you need to create some kind of a framework or a system or a simulation that trains good people…who, to the best of their ability, considers more than just themselves." [17:06]

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4. Personal Background, Dualities, and Performative Authenticity

• [21:07] Danny’s multinational upbringing (Moscow, Israel, America) and struggle to feel at “home.”
• Open discussion about Israeli culture, aggression born of stress, and the complex blend of threat and compassion.
• On social authenticity:
  Quote:
  "Everybody does [perform]. Only when you do become aware of it, it became clear to you that you were performing...the more you practice to do that and trust it…it doesn’t always go well, by the way, but the more you do that…the easier it is to do." [26:29]
• Early struggle with aggression, defensiveness, and a pivotal moment of self-awareness facilitated by a close friend ([31:49]).

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5. Spiritual Awakening: Meditation, Psychedelics, and Healing

• [34:44] Gift of Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth prompts opening to spiritual ideas. Experience with grandparents, one a physicist, one a spiritual healer.
• Vipassana meditation: Danny endorses intensive 10-day silent retreats as "the single best thing" he has done ([48:26]), describing profound psychological benefits, bandwidth freeing, and trauma release.
• Parallels drawn between deep meditation and psychedelic states ([54:02]).

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6. UFOs, Bob Lazar, and the Disillusionment with Disclosure

• [41:42] Danny describes childhood fascination with UFOs, Bob Lazar, and the eventual skeptical turn—a decision to disengage from “around the cornerism” of disclosure narratives ([45:55]).

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7. The Laser Experiment & The Code of Reality

• The Origin Story: After years of DMT experimentation and a “frog being” teaching him unknown guitar chords ([55:50]), Danny begins searching for hard evidence that the DMT space is “real.”
• The Experiment: Shining a red laser at a wall while on DMT, he and others begin to see repeating “code” or symbols, which thousands now report seeing.
• Unsolved Puzzle: Some people (~30%) do not see the symbols—this is being systematically studied ([62:07]).
• The Code of Reality nonprofit is collecting, labeling, and analyzing these data, seeking possible ties to neuroscientific structure (V1 cortex, etc.) and using high-tech tools like Apple Vision Pro.

Quote:
"I actually found something very, very important...when my friend Tim, he saw it, and the funny thing is, because he was in state, he forgot I told him about it..." [61:05]
"We're interested in what is true...if new data comes in that flies in the face of what I'm saying, it will automatically win, not what I think or am convinced of." [99:03]

• Experiments are in progress to determine if what’s seen is an artifact, brain-based pattern, or something genuinely anomalous and transpersonal ([67:14]).

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8. The Console Room: A Hallucinatory Interface?

• Danny describes a persistent “console” or “holographic control panel” that appears unbidden during DMT experiences; now seen by others too ([70:11]).

Quote:
"Just imagine the most realistic augmented reality...all of a sudden this thing appears in front of me...as real as this bottle. Just a capsule appears in the middle of the room...and a podium came out and arranged itself into menus, a pair of gloves, and a carousel." [71:36]

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9. High-Dose Psychedelics & Surrender to Chaos

• Stories of driving to Las Vegas on extremely high doses of LSD ([75:25]), navigating chaos by surrendering rather than resisting.
• Discussion of how his Vipassana practice and temperament allow him to accept extreme altered states that might panic others ([85:00]).

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10. OCD, Mushrooms, and Psychological Healing

• Childhood marked by severe OCD—described as “psychological torture” ([87:14]).
• Mushrooms credited for a smooth, almost unnoticed “cure” of the condition by his mid-20s ([89:47]), echoing clinical research ([91:04]).

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11. Computational Reality & The Simulation Hypothesis

• Reality likely computational, but “rendered does not mean fake” ([103:53]).
• Danny explains Melvin Vopson’s “second law of infodynamics” (information compresses in physical systems) ([104:36]), suggesting universe as an optimized, computer-like process.
• Interface Theory (Donald Hoffman) and the possibility that the “code” is a language/infrastructure, not simple content ([110:23]).

Quote:
"Consciousness is fundamental. I don’t think you can responsibly describe the world without consciousness coming first." [153:01]

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12. Gods, Hierarchies, the Multiverse, and the Final Choice

• Danny describes DMT/5-MeO experiences of cosmic hierarchies, a female “God” above all, and a vision of the universe as a Mandelbrot fractal ([118:36], [124:05]).
• The “code of reality” is perhaps the substrate—the infrastructure or “walls” of experience, not its content ([111:34]).
• Free will: Not as commonly conceived; there is only one fundamental “free” choice—the “final choice” of existence itself to continue or not ([143:43]).
• Ethics and the distribution of suffering and bliss; collective ascension means carrying one another ([135:13]).

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13. Retreats, Community, and Transformation

• Danny’s “COR” retreats use state-of-the-art psychedelic facilitation and integration, focusing on transformation, not just “matrix magic” ([100:04]).
• Quote:
  "People were just transformed… and this is the real sign of success for me, what we’ve created [is a] community already of people that constantly keep in touch, go visit each other all over the world." [102:00]

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14. Magic, Present Moment, and The Paradox of No Free Will

• Danny asserts that deep presence and surrender is where true “magic” occurs ([159:19]), and that lacking ultimate free will can be deeply liberating, not nihilistic ([160:08]).

Quote:
"The idea that because you don't have the ultimate say in things…is the ultimate prison, not the ultimate freedom. The freedom is in the understanding that you are the space in which all of this is unfolding… Being pushed around as the universe, it's kind of fun." [160:08], [162:29]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• The Paradox of Rules and Creativity:
  "The number of rules for ultimate freedom is not zero." – Danny recounting Peterson's anecdote [14:15]
• The Code Experiment’s Big Question:
  "If it's out there, then it's out there. Why would some people not see it?" [63:08]
• On Simulation:
  "Rendered, not fake." [103:53]
• On the Limits of Knowing:
  "In the beginning was the word, in the end is the choice." [136:59]
  "Nobody knows why. Like, you saw the box, it's in that box…right now, while it's still happening, the answer doesn't exist." [138:09]
• On Free Will:
  "The ultimate fractal of free will is the freedom of the will of existence to come into being versus not to be." [144:03]

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Timestamps for Key Sections

• Intro & Background: [00:00–05:35]
• Creativity & Memory: [07:26–10:50]
• Finite vs. Infinite Games / AI: [13:36–18:18]
• Personal background / Social authenticity: [21:07–34:44]
• Spiritual awakening & meditation: [34:44–54:07]
• UFOs/Disclosure: [41:42–47:36]
• The Laser Experiment & the “Code”: [55:21–67:43]
• The Console Room: [70:11–73:51]
• Psychedelic Chaos & Surrender: [75:24–86:14]
• OCD & Psychedelic Healing: [87:04–91:11]
• Cosmic Simulation & Infodynamics: [103:53–110:23]
• DMT cosmology, gods, and the Final Choice: [116:18–147:32]
• Laser as Doorway/Infrastructure: [110:23–113:02]
• Present Moment & the Paradoxical Liberation of No Free Will: [159:09–162:57]

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Final Thoughts

Danny Goler’s work sits at the edge of science, philosophy, mysticism, and experiment. Rather than crusading for belief, he is explicit about his skepticism, his desire to be proven wrong, and his wish to build falsifiable protocols for what have been, until now, ineffable personal experiences. The Why Files team enters—and sometimes bounces cheerfully out of—cosmic rabbit holes but always returns to critical, grounded reflection. For Goler, the ultimate answer is “rendered, not fake,” and the magic isn’t in escape but in full engagement with the present moment.

Find Danny at:

• YouTube: DangoThoughts
• Website: dannygoler.com
• Retreats: corretreat.com
• Nonprofit: codeofreality.org

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For Further Listening/Exploration

• The Why Files episode “We Live in a Simulation” (for deeper science on the simulation question)
• Publications on OCD and psilocybin (University of Arizona, 2006)
• Melvin Vopson’s papers on Infodynamics

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Transcript

[Narrator]

Today I'm talking with Danny Goller. A few years ago, Danny was on DMT when a being that looked like a frog appeared in his room and taught him guitar chords he didn't know how to play. That's when he became sure DMT beings aren't real. The Anunnaki engineered the human race and built the pyramids. Now they've been reassigned to remote guitar lessons. What's next? Conversational Portuguese nail point? So he spent years trying to prove it. Eventually, he shined a cheap red laser at the wall and saw symbols. A red laser reveals the source code of reality. Every cat on Earth has been chasing that dot for decades. It turns out the vicious little hell beasts will read a human. We gotta stop him. We could be settin up the planet of the cats. Damn you. Damn you. He calls it the code of reality. Now thousands of strangers have tried it and seen the same code. Today we're covering whether reality is a simulation, his cosmology and how free will might really work. Uh, if this is a simulation, I'd like to lodge a complaint. The graphics on my fishbowl haven't gotten a single update since I moved in. Oh, complaints go in the circular file and the console, a holographic control panel that opens up in his living room or any room every time he smokes. DMT and other people have seen this console. It's wild. This conversation gets deep. Probably too deep for me. But after we talk, I'll come back, I'll break down what I can, I'll verify what I can, and I'll also tell you what I couldn't verify. Let's go down to the basement.

[Interviewer]

Danny Goler, welcome to the basement.

[Danny Goler]

Thank you so much for having me. It's an honor.

[Interviewer]

Boy, I don't know where to begin. Actually, I do, but I have a lot of questions for you. I'm excited that you're here. First, what is it like when you're on national television and American Ninja Warrior and you're jumping for the monkey peg and you don't land it? What is that? What's going through your mind?

[Danny Goler]

Oh, honestly, that one I didn't feel bad at all because that year, for some weird reason, that first obstacle where you spin with the thing, it took out most veterans. So I, I basically, I was one of the finalists. I actually came to Vegas that year. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So. But the funny thing is that later I, I spoke to some climbers and I had no idea. I didn't even train for this thing. And they Told me, dude, you need to lock your elbows. And I had no idea. And apparently, you know, locking your elbows is a secret. But I was just hanging from my dear life from the beginning. So I was. If you look at that footage, I was holding till I could hold no more. Like my fingers were still holding as I was falling. And the one thing that is a little disappointing in that is because the next obstacle was the last one, which was the warped wall, which for me is back then a parkour practitioner. For years. I could do it in my sleep, like with my eyes closed. I could just climb it just by stepping up without even running. But I was still one of the finalists, which was fun. So, yeah, Ninja Warrior was fun. I did a couple of years.

[Interviewer]

You did a couple of years?

[Danny Goler]

Yeah.

[Interviewer]

So how do you go from actor, parkour, free running filmmaker to exploring reality?

[Danny Goler]

I mean, I took a lot of detours in life, let's just call it that. I think I was always. It sounds very loaded, but I think. I think I was born to be a physicist, probably, and I just never really completed school. But the way that I think and everything that I fold into my framework of the world is I'm approaching everything in terms of what we can know and to what degree, which is a very kind of like physicist way of thinking about it. And obviously I'm not placing myself in the same category because what is required to actually be a physicist is way more than just an attitude. It's also sitting your ass down for eight years and knowing things beyond, you know, but. So it's not really that weird that I find myself in this. Found myself in this position. To me. But everything I did in Hollywood was more like, let's try it. Like, everything I did in my life, I did it that way. The day before I moved to LA from Indiana, by the way, I was supposed to go to New York and the last second I just changed my mind. I was like, let's go to la. I've never been there. And that's how. And I stayed there for 15 years, basically. So everything I did was kind of like, when it felt right, I just kind of went for it. And, you know, I've done. I was still a very small fish in Hollywood. I didn't do anything, like on a major stage. I. I rubbed shoulders with people that are very, very successful. But it became very clear to me that that whole world, there's glass ceilings that I don't like because I saw, like, we're not going to mention names. When I met some, like, Actual A listers and I saw how they have to answer to other people. I mean, it's still very impressive to get to where on that level.

[Interviewer]

Sure.

[Danny Goler]

But it was very clear to me they're not calling the shots. And there's, there's always like this, like, kind of like this is only so far you can go. I don't know why it kind of turned me off from that whole world. So I, I, you know, I just kind of started exploring other things and as faith would have it, right around that time I kind of started stumbling into these ideas that eventually led me to what I'm known for today.

[Interviewer]

It's, I totally agree about Hollywood is the A listers in order to make it to that level. And I tell people this, you have to have a certain type of, type A cutthroat kind of mentality, which I didn't have when I was there. And, and there are. You're in glass boxes everywhere, constantly answering, answering to people, agents and managers. And that's why this medium is so exciting, is because we can just do it ourselves now. We don't need anybody.

[Danny Goler]

Yeah, yeah. It's the true freedom and I think people should exploit it more, to be honest.

[Interviewer]

Totally agree.

[Additional Commentator]

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[Interviewer]

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[Narrator]

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[Interviewer]

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[Interviewer]

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[Interviewer]

I loved it. And in 2017, three years before the laser, you published Contemplations of Meaning.

[Danny Goler]

Wow. You went digging. This was just like a tiny thing that I wrote for almost. Yeah, it was for Steam, right? Yeah, I remember now.

[Interviewer]

Yeah. I mean, what resonated with me in that essay, which people can go find. It's. It's a quick read. Is how you described creativity as a creative person, how you described it as rediscovering something that you're not really creating. Like, it was always there. And that kind of resonated with me. Is that how you. You feel?

[Danny Goler]

I think we're. Yeah, I think we're coming back to remembrance. And one time we, me and my now wife, we went hiking in the Rockies and we. Throughout the whole hike, we were thinking about. We're basically imagining ourselves in real time as God remembering what it was like when God still, you know, was like all these, like, different paths that led to it, basically. And I was like, what if it's actually what's happening? Like, we are one of these memories that God has of whatever reality is. And it put a different emphasis on everything. Everything was more shiny, everything was more meaningful and deep. And also I think our connection grew from that, from that interaction. We just started dating back then. So I think there's something to that. I think that ultimately reality rediscovers itself. But on the other hand, I'm. I'm totally on board. And I also like the idea that maybe the cutting edge of what is possible in the universe is as a surprise to it as it is to the node that registers that experience, like ourselves. That's a pretty cool thought as well. If you had a novel thought. What if the universe never thought of it either? It thought it through you. There's a deep connection there as well.

[Interviewer]

There is. I hadn't considered that. That's really interesting. I don't know if you know Eric Wargrove's work, but he's. He's very influential on me. I recommend Time Loops is a great book. You'd love this guy. And he talks about creativity as your future self. Sending memories essentially back through time that you're pre. Membering his creativity.

[Danny Goler]

That's amazing. Yeah, there's something about. There's something about as. As a creative person yourself, you. That's. That's why it resonates, I feel like. Because the experience of coming up with these creative things is Very unique. And it's not like anything else. It has a feeling attached to it that, that when you have it, you know it. But it's very hard to put your finger on it because it has this, like, sense of novelty, which is, you know, if you want, we can always get into it in the conversation. But like that, that to me, actually is what separates what AIs are doing, what we're doing. To my mind, actually what we do is that that's the central point. So. But it will always require this kind of an agent, like ourselves to have this first initial creative moment. And then you can use AIs to actually move it way faster along the chain of, you know, does it hold water? Does it result in some kind of an automation or something? Like what results it can bring in the world so you can accelerate that process. But that first initial creative moment, there's something very unique about it because I do think it comes from some kind of a eternal soup of everything. Basically.

[Interviewer]

Now I have to go off script. I have to go off script because I really like that. So AI predictive models, LLMs, as they stand now, really can't be creative because they're trained on stuff that's already been invented. So it's nothing new under the sun. Ecclesiastes 1.9. Do you think AI will get to the point where it can be creative? And if they can, does it. Is it sentient?

[Danny Goler]

I don't think so, but I'm willing to be wrong about it. So there's a. This famous moment between David Deutsch and Sam Altman when he asks Deutsch about this conviction that he has, which is along the lines of what you just voiced, and I belong to the same camp. So he basically, Sam asked him, would you be surprised? Would you be willing to concede? I think he said that if it comes up with some kind of a theoretical framework that we really haven't considered before, will it convince you that? And Deutsch conceded, yeah, of course. So I'm in the same camp. If it does something like that, I'm willing to be wrong about it. But my. My intuition is that which. Which is part of a much deeper awareness that I came to, which is that we are that AGI. So this is what this is, this simulation is the alignment happening. So we're being aligned, basically. And these AIs, they're basically internal tools. They're reflections of what's possible for us. So you can ask it to just answer your emails, but you're missing the point. You can use it to interact with the infinite tapestries of meaning within you faster and in a way that builds a much more coherent picture as a whole. So you can, if you come up with the right questions, you can actually get to places with it that you couldn't have possibly come without it, because you simply don't have the. You don't have the capacity. Right. But because it is just, as you very correctly said, I think it is just the totality of everything that humans currently know. You now at your disposal, in addition to your thought and ideation, you have everything that humans know. You just have to know where to look, so to speak. Right, right. Yeah. So that to me is the exciting part. With the full admission that if we misuse it and just keep doing it like a do this for me, do that for me, then. Yeah, then you're gonna get dumber. Like, you actually don't. But that would be the indicator of what you are. So, like, because it is the perfect mirror for us, people always said, oh, if I can't just get that genie in a bottle, right? Here it is. That's literally the genie in the bottle. Like anything you want, anything. But you gotta. The final frontier is your imagination. And most people don't realize that if you get carte blanche to do anything, that's actually the hardest position to find yourself in.

[Interviewer]

Sure did. What question to ask the genie is hard.

[Danny Goler]

Yeah, Some limitations, actually. Nice. When somebody gives you some prerequisites of the game, it's actually very relieving and people don't realize it. It's. I've been voiced it a few times recently, but I think it's a really good. It was. It was kind of mind blowing to me. Like, the illustration was so simple. It was when Jordan Peterson was on Joe Rogan and he demonstrated it to him in real time. He basically told Joe, your turn. And obviously Joe froze. So obviously he was playing a bit of a shtick, but it was effective. He said, your turn. And then Joe just looked at him like, why? What are we doing? This is stupid. Right? He didn't say anything, but that was his face. And then he's like, what? Okay.

[Additional Commentator]

What?

[Danny Goler]

What? Like, okay, just tell me. Basically, Joe said, okay, I got it. Just tell me the thing. And then Jordan goes, well, it's interesting. I just allowed you to play the infinite game. Your turn. And yet the first thing your brain is doing is looking for the rules. You. You want me to tell you what are we doing? Right? So he said the number of rules for ultimate Freedom is not zero. I thought it was very profound. I think there's something there. So it's almost like it's trying to teach us how to be less and less constrained, constrained by different factors, and still come up with something creative to do next. That's really what is being tested here, I think.

[Interviewer]

Does that tie into your two game theory about the puzzle versus the finite versus the infinite?

[Danny Goler]

The finite versus the infinite, the collaborative versus the competitive? Yeah, they're basically the same thing. So like if you. It expresses itself. So the infinite has to be expressed in games that can survive for longer periods of time. And my proposition is that the competitive game is awesome. It's very energizing, but it's energizing in small bursts.

[Interviewer]

That's the finite game.

[Danny Goler]

Exactly. You are within a closed set, that game makes sense. Within an open set, that game stops making sense because you have to rely. Because part of the first game, the competitive game, part of it sometimes age, part of the game is trying to eliminate other agents and just throw them off the board. You can't trust that for thousands of years.

[Interviewer]

No.

[Danny Goler]

But if you're part of a species that is energized and is excited by the collaborative prospect just for the sake of that, just like, oh my God, I'm going to show up this morning, I'm going to work with these amazing people, we're going to build this insane structure in space or go to another planet. Yeah, it's going to take 2,000 years. But we're working towards it. Right. So that if that's the attitude that is that is pumping through the veins of a civilization of that kind, then all of a sudden you can trust the game and you can trust it indefinitely. And I also think this is why these concepts of alignment have to include that part, which is why kind of, you know, ethics and all of these kind of like the ten Commandments, like just the moral framework is so important because the way we're trying to solve the alignment problem currently in AI research is that we're basically trying to say, I call it infinite ethical whack a mole.

[Interviewer]

Well, let me slow you down. The alignment problem. Just define that for the audience.

[Danny Goler]

Yeah. So in AI research there's something called the alignment problem, which is basically how do you make sure that Claude or chatgpt don't just squash us when they become Skynet? Right. And then the way they're trying to go about it is that ethical whack a mo I'm mentioning, which is like you just, you try to target A specific situation. The reason it's not sustainable and not realistic to solve that way. Because just like with the genie in a bottle, if you solve this thing, three other things that you didn't foresee because of it will pop up and that will be a problem. Right? The reality of it is that in an infinite universe, for all intents and purposes, you have infinite kinds of scenarios that can arise and you can't possibly predict all of them. So the only thing you can rely on is you need to create some kind of a framework or a system or a simulation that trains good people. Because the definition of a good person is someone who, to the best of their ability, considers more than just themselves in that particular situation. They just think. And the extent to which they include more and more than just their own agency, they would. I would define them as better and better people. Right? Because you can trust that kind of attitude. What you're essentially asking isn't like, how can I think of all the possible scenarios that can go wrong and solve them in advance? That's impossible. How do you create an agent that cares enough to actually be an awareness of how these things can go wrong and then try and steer the other way? Right. Not just for themselves, but for others.

[Narrator]

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[Interviewer]

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[Narrator]

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[Danny Goler]

So I think that's essentially the kind of simulation we're in. And all of a sudden all of these, you know, the, I guess religious and spiritual ideas all of a sudden make sense. Like yeah, like if you don't pass that alignment problem, you don't become, you don't reformulate yourself as the whole we're all one and all that stuff and you don't actually get to play the bigger game. And there's stages to this, like even within our universe. I think that the reason that the distances between stars are so enormous is exactly for this reason that even before you get to play in some multidimensional game or whatever, even just in our physical universe is like, here's all this real estate that you can see. How do you get there? And right now we're only thinking about it in terms of technical problems. What I don't think we realize is that in order to actually solve that, you can't just solve the technical problem, you also have to solve the interpersonal problem. Because that would allow you to step into the collaborative game, but not in a performative, sappy kind of way, but in a real way. And then all of a sudden the kinds of technologies required to do that will probably be a piece of cake because even the ideation would be collaborative.

[Interviewer]

Yep.

[Danny Goler]

And I think that's when the mind. This is where all this kind of unification goes. But you can't get there unless you're willing to unify. If you're acting out of fear, out of lack. Again, all of these like very kind of like chewed up spiritual concepts that float around now, but they're true. Like if you don't get there, you simply don't get to play that bigger game.

[Interviewer]

I totally get it and I think AI is going to help us with that. And a little bit later I want to talk to you about your thoughts and theories on cosmology before we get there. You're born in Moscow, raised in Israel, served in the military, then LA. We're thinking about New York, Indiana. Then LA, in the. Indiana, LA. So when someone asks you where you're from, what do you say?

[Danny Goler]

America. There's. There's actually never. It's weird because I never felt like I belonged and I never really felt a sense of home or even the feeling of just like being a part of anything. I wasn't like a. I definitely had issues with authority, but it wasn't to an extent of like, you Know, rebellion, you know, on like very extreme levels. I did get in trouble with the law a little bit when I was younger for sure, but like it wasn't like on, you know, on like crazy levels, but America was the first place ever. Well, I remember when I became an actual citizen, when actually became an American, got naturalized. I, I don't remember the last time I felt so much elation.

[Interviewer]

Really.

[Danny Goler]

Yeah, yeah. So. So it is a little painful for me to watch how many Americans don't like this country because maybe because I had to make an effort to be here. There's nothing that I'm more proud to be a part of and more proud to call myself than an American, which is something that is not very, it's not trending right now. But I, but that, that's a, that's a real feeling in me.

[Interviewer]

So trending. It's trending with me. I didn't expect you to say that.

[Danny Goler]

Yeah.

[Interviewer]

I thought we were going to go back. I thought you were going to say Israel. That's really nice that you consider yourself an American.

[Danny Goler]

I'd love to know. Sorry, I'm cutting you off. That's important for me to say so like for the obvious reasons, with everything that's going on right now, it's kind of, you know, it's very painful to watch because of the amount of lies that I see being propagated online.

[Interviewer]

Yep.

[Danny Goler]

But for fairness, there's a reason why I left Israel. It wasn't the reason that most people would that hate Israel currently think that it is because it isn't almost none of those things. But there is some cultural things that I'm. I don't jive with. Like there's just, it just. I don't feel like I belong to that kind of way of seeing things.

[Interviewer]

Well, can you give an example without.

[Danny Goler]

Yeah. People, people are definitely very rude. Very often there's this kind of like bravado that you can say that is arising from the stress of the situation of being in that, in that position that makes sense. Which I can understand. Sure.

[Interviewer]

You're always on edge.

[Danny Goler]

Always on edge. Actually it's such a difficult thing to outline because you kind of have to be there to understand it. There's nuances there, but there is a lot of aggression towards one another. And this is where it kind of gets very dicey because the aggression is not of the bloodthirsty kind that people kind of imagine. Right. It's like a very kind of like interpersonal low key thing that does. Can get a lot like On a personal level, and at the same time, somehow the reverence for life and helping each other and helping even people that are, you know, you sometimes consider enemies is unparalleled. Like, literally, it doesn't exist anywhere else in the world. And that's a very difficult thing to outline. So I usually stay away from this part of the conversation because I see that the emotional charge around it is just too, too great for people to be able to observe any real information about it. But the one that's true. Yeah. So. But for me, I'm, you know, I'm hopeful about the world because I do think that ultimately the only thing we can do is the best from where we're sitting right now. So me worrying about, like, what is the ultimate state of affairs, it's kind of like worthless, because there's nothing I can do about certain things. But in the little pockets that I do occupy in my day to day, I try to do my best to, you know, promote the kind of behavior that I would love to see in others. And I do everything I can. That none of it is performative. That that's really important. Very often people act a certain way without being that way. And I think that is one of the more corrosive parts of how we do things today, because online, everything is so, you know, inviting. The performance part of it.

[Interviewer]

Yep.

[Danny Goler]

But I think that there is a way to drop more into the present moment and the body and the one on one to see what it actually is like to just truly care about the immediate experience with another human.

[Interviewer]

So let me ask you.

[Danny Goler]

Yeah.

[Interviewer]

Because in researching your work, I see duality in you and tension everywhere. In a good way? In a good way.

[Danny Goler]

No, I know I'm in a good way.

[Interviewer]

So when you talk about performance, you're an actor, filmmaker, all that. Do you ever find yourself. This is not a snarky question because I'm also an actor.

[Danny Goler]

Sure. Yeah.

[Interviewer]

Do you ever find yourself in a performance and you have to kind of check yourself and like, dial it back?

[Danny Goler]

No, not anymore.

[Interviewer]

Not anymore. But you used to.

[Danny Goler]

I think, to the. To any degree that the thing is that. So the thing that needs to be outlined here is that everybody does it to certain degrees they're not aware of.

[Interviewer]

Yes.

[Danny Goler]

And only when you do become aware of it, it became clear to do that you were performing. So to the extent that I can observe in myself and meditation had a big part of it is because it's easier to actually. You practice how to actually notice yourself to deeper and deeper degrees. There's a certain flow, flow state that is associated with actually just being here truly and willing to air out your thoughts truthfully in that moment, even if it comes off the wrong way. And the more you practice to do that and trust it, it doesn't always go well, by the way. But the more you do that and you realize, oh, I was not demolished by this, the easier it is to do. And that's the tool that I've found to. That is the most effective. So very often I would like come up with a. Let me think of. If I can think of an example. Well, here's the thing. Like, for example, it, it. That example is a little broad, but it, but everybody can associate with this. Very often in a conversation, it all of a sudden become. Becomes clear to you, like what. How you can potentially either omit certain information or just steer the conversation in your favor. And even not even in ways that are conniving or like, it's just like, I don't have to go there and I just won't. But at the same time, you know that maybe the other person would actually benefit from going there. If I assessed it inside of myself before, I wouldn't enter that part because why do I need to bother?

[Interviewer]

Right.

[Danny Goler]

Right Now I will.

[Interviewer]

Now you will?

[Danny Goler]

Yeah. If I feel like it truly is, and I don't necessarily want to spend the energy or the time, obviously I have to assess what I have that energy. But if I feel that truly the person would benefit from this, even though I have no idea how we're going to navigate this, what I'm going to do is I'm just going to burn the boats. I'm just going to say it right away before I have the time to assess. Should we, should we not. I would just say it. And then you're here now, now you have to talk about it. So things like this. And then eventually over time, it became clear to me what is the truly kind of beneficial thing in a lot of these instances. So to the extent that I can muster in that moment, I am trying to be a good person in the same definition I used before, trying to consider more than just myself in that moment. But truly, like, and I don't even care if the person will understand that that's what's happening. I know that. I know that that's what I was doing. And then if it goes in the wrong direction, then you learn from that and you say, oh, interesting. Okay, well, maybe not always bringing everything else like, and then you just keep dialing it in. But it Is it does imply more. More emotional pain sometimes than you necessarily have to go through.

[Interviewer]

Well, yeah. What would. What would interactions be like if everyone did this?

[Danny Goler]

I think a lot better.

[Interviewer]

You do?

[Danny Goler]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're not talking about just like, saying the thing. It has to also come with an understanding of what the person is. It takes some practice. People who say things like, well, I'm just being real. Like, know. Because the other part of being real is also considering trying to discern the person, the person's readiness to hear certain things. And if you. If you've done none of the work to try and figure it out. It's not their job to all of a sudden. To all of a sudden handle certain levels of understanding. If they never even thought about that now, you just shattered their world. Right. So, like you did. You didn't do any service for no one. Like, you just felt like it was for you. You wanted to feel a certain way.

[Interviewer]

That's right.

[Danny Goler]

And this is. And this is why it's such a. It's such a difficult. So this. It's. It's a very difficult ground to walk on, because the truth of it is truly just in the moment, which sounds, you know, super kind of cheesy, but it's true. Like, it really is just in that moment and in no other moment. Like, the truth about whatever this exact moment would look like with a slightly different person in a slightly different time can be radically different.

[Interviewer]

Sure.

[Danny Goler]

Because of whatever. Exactly. In that moment, not just, you know, in the grander scheme of things. So it is. I would consider it, to some degree, an art. And I think some people are naturally better at it than others. I was definitely not good at it. I think I had some disabilities of. I don't know if disabilities is the right word, but I had some tilt to my cognition in such a way that I would constantly step on someone's toes without realizing it. Something would go wrong in a social setting, and I wouldn't understand what just happened.

[Interviewer]

I'm not good at this.

[Danny Goler]

Yeah.

[Interviewer]

I'm not. I'm not good at this.

[Danny Goler]

Yeah. And then I learned that. That if I. If I can just put my honest best foot forward, somehow things started working differently. And I noticed it. I noticed, like, people relax. I was like, oh, why did they relax? What happened? I think there's something very deep inside of us that recognizes predatorial attitudes. And sometimes people don't even realize that they carry predatorial attitudes. So, for example, I had a case where I grew up and I had a Pretty, like, you Know, childhood was not very. It was fine. Like, I wasn't like, you know, there was definitely some stuff that people would nowadays call, like, things, reasons for trauma, but nothing on the level of, like, your parents being addicted to heroin or anything like that. But there's definitely a lot of pain that came from some things in the childhood that then later I saw were translating to a very aggressive attitude towards others, which was just a defense mechanism. Because I realized the second you go violent, people respect, and then they just back off.

[Interviewer]

Yep.

[Danny Goler]

Right. So then that was my safe space. And then one day, a really good friend of mine who I've now known for 30 years, he pulled me to the side one time because we had to do. We were. We were working in the same company, and he basically pulled me aside and he said, hey, man, I just. I have to bring it to your attention. When you talk to people, they're literally afraid of you. And that hurt me so deeply because that's the. It's such an isolating. Especially when you're not trying to be. If you're trying to be a mobster. That's a great thing if somebody tells you that. Right. It's like, oh, good. But I was.

[Narrator]

So.

[Danny Goler]

I was trying to connect. So imagine you trying your best to connect with people and what comes out of it, because I was basically talking to them like that, you know, and it was like this very kind of like, just, I'm watching you. It was a lot of that. Right. But for me, it was. I didn't feel like I was doing that. So imagine what a shock that was to hear that.

[Interviewer]

You must have really trusted him to make. I mean, you made a life change there.

[Danny Goler]

Yeah. I mean, it was. It was very hurtful. It was very painful. But he did me a huge solid, and I. And I realized, oh, wow. Okay. So the. And. And it was. It was right before I really entered any real serious spiritual seeking back then. It was very clear to me that any spiritual attempt is just like, it's for the weak. You know, it's just people just. They can't handle the finality of life. All that jazz, right? And then I. That's right before I started. I think the first entry was actually Eckhart Tolle. It was right before, kind of like I read A New Earth. And then I was like, whoa, this actually makes a lot of sense, like, in a very simple way. Right. And then I started looking there.

[Interviewer]

And then I remember you telling a story somewhere where you were gifted an Akratoli book, and you were kind of annoyed by it. Yeah, like it's, this is nonsense.

[Danny Goler]

It was a woman I was seeing and you know, a pretty girl gift you something, you take it. But I was begrudgingly took it and I just threw it on the. You know, I was like, okay.

[Interviewer]

I felt the same way about, about Tolly until I read it.

[Danny Goler]

And I was like, holy shit.

[Interviewer]

Holy shit. Yeah, he's right. It's all.

[Danny Goler]

And then I went on, on a crazy ride finding out who he was. Because it's so important for me who's speaking the words. You can say so much about the person. Which by the way, speaking about all the stuff that. Not specifically, but like really anything in the world that people are watching. I know it's really hard to kind of follow the big events. Don't. Don't follow the people. Watch the people. You can say so much. You can see so much by the micro expressions of the people involved in saying the thing. And you can still stray. You can still have like a person who's actually really well intentioned and just. They, they just don't know how to express themselves well. But for the most part, you can see, you can see if there's like an actual attempt to harm. There's a, there's a, there's a thing there. If you look closely, you can see that. And it's hard to not project. But anyways, I digress. That, that, that, that part was so key for me when I was watching Eckhart because after I read the book, I was like, okay, hold on, let me find out. I started watching interviews with him. And I mean, it's, I mean, Eckhart is just like, is it like holy person? You know, I mean, it's like you, you watch that person, he's like, oh, come on. Like, this is ridiculous.

[Interviewer]

His audio books are amazing.

[Danny Goler]

Yeah. So there's this calm and peace and love and you can feel it. So I was like, oh my God, this is. And I had a struggle for, for years. I was like, yeah, but I want, I want the. This. Like, I want, I want nice things. I want pretty girls. I want like, I want that.

[Interviewer]

That's okay.

[Danny Goler]

And. Exactly. But back then it was. I was in my 20s, I was still kind of like finding my, you know. What does that mean if you're spiritual? It means you can't do this or you can't do that. And over time you start to understand. Of course, that's totally okay. And you, and you just, and you just find your rhythm.

[Interviewer]

What, what message you think she was Trying to send to you. She was trying to tell you something by giving you that book.

[Danny Goler]

I think she was influenced by his first book and she gifted me the second. I think that's what happened. But maybe, who knows? Yeah, Like, I never, you know, it's funny, till this day I never thought about that. What you just asked me is super interesting. Huh? I can probably reach out and ask. That's interesting.

[Interviewer]

Yeah. She did you a great service.

[Danny Goler]

Yeah.

[Interviewer]

I want to know about conversations around the kitchen table with your grandfather's a physicist. Your grandmother, she was a chemist and then found spirituality.

[Danny Goler]

Yeah, she was a Christian, but I always say she wasn't one of these, like, zealous Christians. She was a very spiritual Christian. She was one of these people that I find found out only later through conversation with my mom that she. She had these, like, weird abilities. Like she could, you know, somebody would come with this cyst and she would, like, put her hand above it and it would, like, go away in a couple of days. Things like this.

[Interviewer]

Really?

[Danny Goler]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what my mom told me. So. Yeah. But yeah, basically I was raised by them because when I was born, my mom was still going to school and my grandfather started describing to me like, black holes and these things since I was very little. And I don't know who came, what came first. My predispensation to imagine the. The edges of the universe all the time, or him telling me things about it or the other way around. But it was very like that just image. Like, if we go all the way to the edge of the universe, okay, what's, what's outside of that? Like, what is it that I literally projected myself there almost physically, all the time. We're just like, okay, we can crack it. Like, if you step outside, what do I see? It's like, you know, it's like, what is that? What does outside mean? So these ideas were. I couldn't. I could never find any trajectory of thought that was more war worth of my attention. Like, never. And I think that's the thing that followed me throughout my life with all my experiments and doing things. And I just. I think I was hungry to understand what life has to offer. When I found psychedelics, obviously it was a big revelation because I realized, oh, okay, so you can actually change, like, quite substantially. But then this is why I think I tried so many different things in life to see what, what lands and what it actually feels like to experience life through that lens. I occupied very different philosophical positions in terms of how much I'm convinced That that's what it is. And it's only when you go through these levels of convictions that you truly understand what it's like to hold that position. Because there's. Everything changes. Your lens, your mannerisms, the way you talk to people, all of it. It's all. Well, Terence McKenna used to say it's all operating systems. And it's completely true. Like, you can. You can. Now that I'm older, when you find this stability inside, you can actually just interplay and you can just change them without identifying with any of them. So. So it's actually relatively easy for me to understand how people kind of come at the world from this other position. And I think a big proportion of that was actually. Even though it sounds like two completely different worlds and they have nothing to do with one another, physics and human experience. But to me, it was clear that whatever that is had to have some deep connection to how it's. How it's possible to experience it. I didn't have know the granularity in terms of, like, is it the same thing? Or something like that, but it. It was very clear to me that there's, like, a strong relationship there.

[Interviewer]

Sure. Philosophy and physics are. Are really connected. Yeah.

[Danny Goler]

And. And some physicists would disagree with this, which I think is.

[Interviewer]

I think most would agree.

[Danny Goler]

It's egregious that they would. It's just, you know, I don't know if you're familiar with the TOE podcast, the Theories of Everything podcast with Kurt Jle phenomenal, and I think he put the right emphasis on it. But when he says, like, physicists can't help but being informed by philosophy all the time, they just don't realize it.

[Interviewer]

Absolutely true. Yeah, Absolutely true. Interesting that you said that you wanted to solve what was outside the universe. Talk a little bit about when you were a UFO kid and you went down the Bob Lazar rabbit hole and your disillusionment with disclosure.

[Danny Goler]

As a tiny side note, you know my whole shtick with 42. Right. That it follows me everywhere. The number 42. Ajacker's Guide to the Galaxy.

[Interviewer]

Yes.

[Danny Goler]

You can't see it from your angle. Probably in the same way. Right in this camera.

[Interviewer]

Are you kidding me?

[Danny Goler]

No. Tilt your head to the right. No, no, to the right. Like here. Go like this. Do you see the handle of the camera?

[Interviewer]

Yes.

[Danny Goler]

Under the handle. Keep going right with your head.

[Interviewer]

Oh, my goodness. 42.

[Danny Goler]

It's framed and there's nothing. Look, I'll take a picture of it.

[Interviewer]

Oh, my God. It's on my list. It's on my list.

[Narrator]

That's.

[Additional Commentator]

Look.

[Danny Goler]

Oh, my God, it's double. Look at this. I'll show you exactly how it appears for me. Look at this.

[Additional Commentator]

Wow.

[Interviewer]

Synchronicities are a real thing.

[Danny Goler]

Yeah, it never stops.

[Interviewer]

Last week I was having synchronicities for like two or three straight days. So many that even my wife was nervous. I'm like, look, the simulation is busy right now. Things are happening.

[Danny Goler]

Something's happening.

[Interviewer]

I said, I feel it. Something's going on.

[Danny Goler]

I'm sorry, I'm taking you on so many side tangents. You know what happened to me when I landed here yesterday?

[Interviewer]

What?

[Danny Goler]

I get in the car in the Uber from the airport, and all of a sudden the theme, not the thing, the opening music of the Matrix starts playing. Like that thing. I was like, of course.

[Additional Commentator]

What?

[Danny Goler]

No, like, as I put my butt down, I was like, what the. And then I'm like, where is it playing? And then I realized I still my headphones in. It's playing in my phone. But then my phone is just on lock screen somehow. I did. I did not do this. It opened YouTube. It went. You know how they have the free movies sometimes?

[Interviewer]

Yeah.

[Danny Goler]

It found the Matrix, which was free that day yesterday. And it started playing it right when I said, it's wild.

[Interviewer]

It's wild when you look for it. It's everywhere.

[Danny Goler]

But I wasn't looking for it. It's just. It's just.

[Interviewer]

It found you, the Matrix.

[Danny Goler]

Like, what?

[Interviewer]

I can't believe 42 is right over my shoulder.

[Danny Goler]

Right there. Framed.

[Interviewer]

Perfect. Framed. Yeah. Oh, goodness.

[Danny Goler]

Sorry I threw you off of the.

[Interviewer]

No, no, it's super fun. Yeah. Disclosure, disillusionment. I want your thoughts on that.

[Danny Goler]

Disillusionment. Oh, with bubbles are in the whole. Yeah, yeah. Basically, I made a very conscious choice. You know, I was obviously fascinated. I always wanted to be abducted.

[Interviewer]

You wanted to be.

[Danny Goler]

Oh, I wanted to be abducted.

[Interviewer]

No, you don't.

[Danny Goler]

Yes, yes, yes, yes. I could not wait. I said, if they take me one way, I can't wait to go. Like, I wanted to see another world. Like the how weird it is would be worth anything. It's just like, I just wanted to see that. Right.

[Interviewer]

Well, you. I mean, obviously, you know Andrew Gallimore very well. He was here just a few days ago.

[Danny Goler]

Yeah.

[Interviewer]

He makes a good argument that abductions are just possibly an endogenous DMT experience.

[Danny Goler]

Possible. I don't. I personally don't find similarities between the reports of DMT and. And the. What the are.

[Interviewer]

I don't either.

[Danny Goler]

Yeah, I Think they don't sound or look at all the same. But again, who knows, right? Like ultimately, who knows? And even if they were, as a kid, I knew nothing about that. All I knew is that I want to go to another planet. And that sounded like a legitimate way to do that. If that's real. Right. So when the bubbles are story came out, obviously just like everybody, it captured my imagination. But. And by the way, to anybody who's a little younger today, what you might not understand is that back then there were not. There was no social media or like a billion stories like that. No, there was one, it was one. So it was just this like object of interest for basically everybody.

[Interviewer]

Yeah, I have chills. Just still remembering the first time you saw him in shadow talking about stuff.

[Danny Goler]

It was insane.

[Interviewer]

Yeah.

[Danny Goler]

And I was a kid, I was, I was like probably 16 or something like that.

[Interviewer]

Yeah, that was like 83 or something like that. 80.

[Danny Goler]

Oh no, 83 is when it happened. So no, I. Yeah, yeah, no, no, no, I heard about it in the 90s, so I was already going through kind of like a refurbished version of it probably. No, no, I was born in 83. So then, so anyways, I, I was, you know, obviously fascinated. But then as time went by and I got older, part of that philosophical swing was very much from this like very wonder filled kind of attitude towards life to like, eh, you know, things are what they are. Probably just a physical universe, that kind of stuff. Right. But not in a, not in like a magic dissolving way, but just kind of like. Yeah, it's fine. Like the universe is the universe, it's all good. Like it's amazing. And that was the attitude. Right. And then I remember in 2012, because of all of these like what I call around the cornerism, which is like, it's coming, it's coming. It's been like this basically since the beginning.

[Interviewer]

Yeah, we're still there.

[Danny Goler]

Yeah. And as long as it's coming, you can sell books, you can sell movies.

[Interviewer]

Yeah.

[Danny Goler]

And I'm not even speaking out of a cynical position. All the power to you. Capitalism, great, go, go make money, it's all good. But if you're purposefully holding it in that realm, then you're not a good person. Then you're actually doing something that is just for your benefit. Right. If the thing is there and you're not creating it and you making money on top of it, great. If you're keeping the thing alive to make money, that's a different story. And again, I don't even do the whole like finger pointing and blaming. I'm just like, I just disengage. Just like, I just don't care about that kind of a way of being right.

[Interviewer]

As soon as I see that you have a book out, no trust.

[Danny Goler]

So I feel you. But I'm like, I'm not in that camp. If somebody writes a really interesting book about something that truly is there and we don't understand, that's all great. And I have no problem with people making money. People work hard. Writing a book is not an easy thing. All good. It's the keeping the mystery alive when you know it's no longer a mystery, or at least you have enough information to know it's not a mystery. I'm not saying it isn't. I'm saying if that's your attitude, right? So there was something about that. There was a dissolution with that kind of way of doing things, and I just didn't have any more energy for it. So I decided very consciously before December 21, 2012, that if the Mayan calendar amounts to exactly nothing, right on time. I'm just gonna stop with this whole not just aliens, just everything. I'm just done. I don't care. Like, I just don't care. Like, I don't engage with that part of the human thought anymore. And that's what I did. Of course, nothing happened. And then I just stopped interacting with it.

[Interviewer]

Just turn this, turn the switch.

[Danny Goler]

Yeah, it's done. Like, it was just enough. It was just enough. It's like, how many arguments do you need to have in a relationship before you go, okay, just, I don't want this anymore? And it wasn't an argument, but it was all intents and purposes. A thing that kind of pulls you by your nose infinitely. And there's just more important things in life, you know, I was interested in what in fact is true. And that is what I'm interested in today. So I stopped interacting with it altogether. And this is why when the things that started happening to me started happening to me with DMT and all that stuff, that was coming in contact with all intents and purposes, the real thing, at least for me, like, oh, you can actually interact with these beings and whomever they are, and they're actually alien. They don't look like humanoids, they straight up look like aliens, feel like aliens. It's such a different universe, which is what you would expect an alien to be, right? So then that took me on a completely different ride into something that I could actually put my. I put. I Could put some stock in it because I had direct access to it. It wasn't a thing in the news or a formulated narrative. It was like, oh, I can just go and see it and then I can decide for myself what do I think that is. But that was so different than the kind of, and sorry, I don't mean to offend anyone, but like this for me, just like a very caricature version of, you know, of what this whole thing is. It's just, it's too close to how humans would imagine it. You see what I'm saying? I do, yeah.

[Interviewer]

Disengaging was a great idea by the way. In 15 years you haven't missed anything, nothing's happened. I think people are surprised by this, is that the practice came first. So before DMT you did vipassana?

[Danny Goler]

No, dmt, I did first. You did first, but, but, but I did vipassana and then started doing it and I think the, the second or third retreat I came back and that, that extra thing happened to me. So it was all of a sudden change the trajectory of DMT for me.

[Interviewer]

Did you do the full 10 days?

[Danny Goler]

Yeah, yeah, you have to do the 10 day the first time.

[Interviewer]

What is that? Just like people don't know how.

[Danny Goler]

This is amazing. I could not recommend something more. It's available everywhere, it's free. I mean it's donation based. But like, who doesn't have a few bucks to spare, right?

[Interviewer]

It's like, what is it?

[Danny Goler]

It's the closest, it's the closest meditative framework to what the Buddha actually taught. It's very, there's not a lot of talk about anything metaphysical. It's just the practice itself. The shortest way of describing it is essentially you practicing how to utilize your attention in order to purify your mind. And when mind is expressed here, the, the what is meant is the totality of everything that is possible to experience. We're not separating mind is not meant cerebral, it's just mind, just experience. Right. So then basically you, you sit there, you learn how to hold attention for the first three days by using a meditative practice called anapana, which is just paying attention to your breath, which is very difficult to do.

[Interviewer]

Yep.

[Danny Goler]

And when you manage to do that for three days well enough, you then utilize the point of attention you've harnessed to then scan your body in a particular way. And nobody really knows why that works, but we know from actual research that it does. Like we actually see that people's brains actually change.

[Interviewer]

Yes.

[Danny Goler]

And I can tell you that without A doubt. This is probably the one single best thing I've ever done in terms of like helping myself. It really is a form of superpower when you get to a certain level of being able to do it and, and I'm not even on a high level. Like, you don't have to be some kind of a master. It's just the ability to disengage a little bit from whatever turmoil is happening. Oh, the camera's moving. I was like, whatever, whatever, whatever is happening in, in, in, in real time. And sometimes it's still hard to do, obviously, but it is an incredible practice that I would recommend anybody try because that's what you really put your finger on, what it's like to be you moment to moment. And when you do this every single day for 10 days, the whole day, you find out quite a bit about not just your psychology, but you find out about what's possible in terms of experience. You feel like you've been given a completely new operating system. You, you know, it's funny when you get your phone back, as you give your phone away, this is just a very interesting data point for me. Not a little bit. Not a little bit, a lot. I don't want to put you on the spot. It's like, have you done mushrooms? Or you can't answer?

[Interviewer]

Okay, I'm experienced.

[Narrator]

Okay.

[Danny Goler]

Okay. I'm just making sure that. Yeah, yeah. So you know how screens look kind of extra digital?

[Interviewer]

Yes.

[Danny Goler]

That's what a phone looks like when you get it back.

[Interviewer]

It does, yes.

[Danny Goler]

It's really interesting.

[Interviewer]

It is.

[Danny Goler]

What, like, it literally looks digitized like this. Like you see it on acid or on mushrooms. I think what it is, the first one that I did, I realized it's a, I spoke about this before. Basically I realized it's a, it's actually a bandwidth problem. So basically the, the according to Vipassana, what's actually happening is that every single, what we call mental event is not separate from a physical event. In order for it to be alive, something in your body has to register it. Even what you call your thoughts.

[Interviewer]

Yes.

[Danny Goler]

This is why when you get stressed, you need the massage. Right. Because your shoulders tense up. So that's one example of that. Well, the bigger the impact of whatever that was, the mental event, the stronger the instantiation in the body. And traumas are deeply, deeply rooted somewhere in the body and they're probably the rise of like a lot of pain, sometimes even cancer, probably. And what, what essentially the, the idea is, is that what we do in the Western world We create the severing. So, like, when the mental event is present, we feel terrible if we take our minds away from it, we're like, oh, solved. We don't have to think about it. I can go watch a movie, I can drown myself in whatever in work. But the reality of it is that whatever that was, it's now in your body somewhere and you're just ignoring it, basically. So what I realized, and basically what you're doing in Vipassana is you just allow yourself to sit in neutrality and you allow these things to percolate up. And at first a little fizz comes out, like the itches, the scratches, things like this. They're called sankaras. And then after about two or three days, they just stop, stop. There's no more itches, there's no more nothing. And then the bigger ones come in, like big pains that you just, I guess, didn't even realize were there. So one of these pains happened to me in one of the days that they taught Vipassana on the fourth day, I think, and this crazy pain in my knee came. It was as bad as somebody carving a knife into my knee. But I was already in a state of kind of neutrality, where your brain is no longer defining it as pain at that point. It's just a very strong sensation. It's just like a very. And you can just kind of sit with it.

[Interviewer]

You just observe it.

[Danny Goler]

You don't observe it, you don't touch it.

[Interviewer]

Right.

[Danny Goler]

And which is the practice, by the way. But then after you do that, it's almost like a child that just wanted to show you a drawing. So when it showed you the drawing, and again, we don't quite know why that works from a scientific perspective, but it works. After it showed you the drawing and you looked, after the child noticed, you did look, okay, you looked at me. I got my attention. It just goes away. It's done. It's no longer there. And then after I came out from that, from that. The reason that I noticed that it's a bandwidth problem is because of that one session. Because when I stepped outside every. It's. I was. It's like I was on 400 mics of acid. Everything was sharp, everything was shining and glistening and blissful and filled with meaning. And I was like, oh, my God. It was just serenity and peace.

[Interviewer]

I know this feeling.

[Danny Goler]

And I go, this is why people devote their lives to this.

[Interviewer]

Yes.

[Danny Goler]

And then I was, oh, think about it from a computational perspective. Something in me, even though I wasn't consciously aware Was had to keep this alive. So when it was gone and because it was big, that much bandwidth is now free.

[Interviewer]

Yes.

[Danny Goler]

To look at colors and meaning and everything. So it's like, ah, wow. So like that's when I realized that, oh, this is like a science. This is like, it's not like a feel good kind of. No, no, no.

[Interviewer]

I bet the same parts of the brain are lighting up when meditation is psychedelics. I bet it's the same parts of the brain that light up.

[Danny Goler]

The, the reduction of the DMN is similar. So Richard Davidson did a lot of studies on this and then he discovered, he added psilocybin later, actually way, way later in his career. But he found that, yeah, the default mode network goes almost dormant. But, but mushrooms also do extra things. So there's like other things. Like the pyrotechnics is not something that you necessarily have to experience with meditation, but the peace and everything. Yeah. The deeper meaning.

[Interviewer]

Well, let's, let's take a quick break and when we come back, we'll go to the infamous night in Boulder.

[Danny Goler]

Let's do it.

[Interviewer]

All right, Be right back. Let's talk about dmt.

[Danny Goler]

Let's do it.

[Interviewer]

Here's a disclaimer. We're not promoting, condoning or endorsing the use of any psychedelics. They're dangerous. Be careful. We're speaking from personal experience, both of us. I, I've done all of these as well. So when it's funny to watch you on podcast where someone's like, describe the DMT experience, you're like, I can't because you can't. Yeah, you can't. You really, you really do go somewhere else. So you kind of became famous for this laser experiment and we know the story. But I want to know what made you just. Why did you shine a laser at the wall? I would never think of that.

[Danny Goler]

I think most people wouldn't. And I don't even know if I would necessarily manage to grok that unless all the right things would happen and I would be paying attention. It was a, it was a years long process that I was aiming at. I was basically asking the question, can we prove that the DMT space is real? That was it. And then everything else is just like the busy work of how it happened.

[Interviewer]

So this was like an experiment.

[Danny Goler]

Yeah, I tried all kinds of things. So basically I had an experience on DMT after already being very versed in it for years. And then something happened and, and I had this like now famous story with the frog guy who apparently became Like a thing that people really want to know more about and I know almost nothing about. But basically I had a being appear in my room as real as a person, looking like a frog. And he showed me how to play certain chords on a guitar that I did not know how to do. Now, aside from the fact that this is a pretty awesome, you know, experience, what was key there is that he was showing me chords I do not know how to play. So he was essentially saying, I'm real. You don't know how to do this. I'm giving you information. So then I knew, at least for me. Obviously, I couldn't prove it to anyone, but it was clear to me that nothing will ever be the same again. Because at least I knew that one person now knows for a fact that they are real. And then the second I hold something of that kind, I'm never letting go. This is. This is it. Now we're holding it. And for a year I try to just go back in there. And I basically lived on DMT for like a year plus. Yeah, I mean, I loved it. I mean, for me it was, you know, I was just mesmerized by everything.

[Interviewer]

Sure.

[Danny Goler]

And I, again, super not recommended. Definitely don't recommend this, but I basically did everything on it. I'm going to the gym, to the store, like, doing everything, and I try to ask, like, okay, great, like, you told me that you're real, or at least somebody there told me that. So now how do we show me something? How do we build a spaceship? Like something. Something that we can take home? And obviously they never answer questions of that kind.

[Interviewer]

This is always the big question is, if it's so real for thousands of years, how come we don't have anything tangible?

[Danny Goler]

Yeah, right. Yeah. And it's not clear to me still if they're. If they can't or they won't, I don't really know. But clearly, if you showed me something that clearly they can. It's just a matter of like, kind of like maybe degree or something. I've definitely seen, like, them arguing about this one time. So there's definitely not like a consensus or anything like this.

[Interviewer]

Them meaning like the entities.

[Danny Goler]

Yeah, the different kinds of entities, like, arguing with each other, whether we should know any of this or never, Things like this. But then in the end of the day, when you go back to normal state, your brain constantly says, okay, it can always just be like a really neat trick of the mind, which is still awesome, by the way, but. But maybe it's just like a really Your if. You know, if the brain is capable of schizophrenia. And again, I. I don't know what it's like, but, like, you know, what if this is like a very. Kind of like, in controlled induced schizophrenia, that happens only when the. Like, there's definitely a lot of these possibilities in my head. Right. It's like, kind of like the brain builds coherent enough of a story powered by this extra kind of experience, all still makes sense, but the realism in real time, the essence of what it was, like, doesn't feel like a derangement. It feels like reality is happening.

[Interviewer]

Yes.

[Danny Goler]

So then I couldn't let it go. And then eventually I said, okay, cool. Well, you know, if you guys aren't gonna show me, I'm gonna try and figure it out. So I used kind of the closest thing to us to a scientific thinking that I could, given the fact that I really have nothing to probe. And I thought, what do we know for sure? And there was a few things that we knew for sure. We know that light had to be involved because you can see it. So photons are carrying some information from somewhere. Right? Which means that light is moving between. From where they are to where I am, because I can see it with my eyes. So that must be the case. Right?

[Interviewer]

Hold on. I don't. I don't want the theory.

[Narrator]

I've already heard this. Yeah, yeah.

[Interviewer]

I want to know what you felt.

[Danny Goler]

Oh, great question.

[Interviewer]

Thank you.

[Narrator]

We all know this.

[Interviewer]

We all know that story. I want to know what. What you felt.

[Narrator]

You saw the symbols, the first 10.

[Danny Goler]

No, no, no, no. Not the symbol. So, like, I'm talking about, like, before. Right? So, like. But. But this is a. I appreciate this. This is. This is very useful and helpful for me as well. What I felt was that there's this super importance to us understanding all of this and also trying to understand what is kind of, what are the rules? Like, are they playing by rules? Do they have a government? Like, that was kind of like my. Like, okay, what are we stepping in somebody's toes, right? Who knows, man? Like, you know, like, was this, like, a renegade person who. But now if they're watching and now they're. I don't know, like, he's an outlaw or something. You know, all these scenarios in your head is like, okay, well, then after I years go by and I kind of figured this thing out with the help of my beautiful wife, and we come up with this idea that the laser is supposed to do something, and then it worked. The first moment wasn't. I was just kind Of. I mean, obviously I was kind of shocked that it worked. Honestly, that anything worked. I didn't know what to expect. But the big shock came when my. My friend Tim, he was the first one that I actually showed this to. He. He saw it. And the funny thing is that the way that he saw it is that because he was in state, he forgot I told him about it, you know.

[Interviewer]

Yes. Yeah.

[Danny Goler]

You're like, immediate memory kind of goes away.

[Interviewer]

Yep.

[Danny Goler]

So he just woke up from being out there, but he was standing, and he just reported to me without remembering that I told him anything. He's like, bro, there's language in there.

[Interviewer]

Were you with him in.

[Danny Goler]

Yeah. And it was like, there's language in there. And I go like, yeah, I told you. He's like, oh, right. He goes like, dude, what the fuck? And you know, and then we. And then we. Then. Then it became clear to me that I actually found something very, very important.

[Interviewer]

Is it scary or beautiful or.

[Danny Goler]

It's beautiful. It's beautiful. I mean, scary, I think, depends on your framing, right? There's definitely people who experience the size of it, and that scares them. There's something overwhelming about the scale of everything, including what you're seeing in there.

[Interviewer]

So thousands of people have done this, and they see the symbols, they see the code, but some people don't. Those. Those are the people that are interesting to me. What do they have in common? Is that a signal?

[Danny Goler]

I wish I knew. They have nothing in common. Not age groups, not iq, not.

[Interviewer]

We.

[Danny Goler]

We thought of everything. There's literally not. And I think, and I'm with you, that this is actually super interesting, and this is something that we have to admit. I now have a nonprofit called Code of Reality and started with my partner, David Carter. And we. Our goal is to find out what, in fact is true. And we have to be honest about the fact that just like you're saying, there's about 30% of people that are really having a hard time, and some of them can't see it at all.

[Interviewer]

And they go in wanting to see it.

[Danny Goler]

Yes. And. But to me, something tells me that that's just like you said. That's information. That's a data point. And I think when we're going to figure it out, it will tell us something very fundamental. I think that there's something about the differences in how people cast their attention on the way that their brain is constructed that causes this. And I think that's a triangulation point that can be an interesting. This versus this. So it's an interesting binary to explore. I do think we will solve this, but we haven't yet. And it does pose a real problem to at least the proposition itself.

[Narrator]

Right.

[Danny Goler]

Because if it's out there, then it's out there. Why would some people not see it? But is a little different in the sense that, yeah, obviously there's something about how our minds are that has to do with us being able to see it. So you know, it gives it a little bit more a cushion there. Yeah, we don't know, we literally I thought of everything from eyesight to age to IQ to predispensations to life like people that are much more kind of like heart driven to people that are much more cerebral. All kinds.

[Interviewer]

So you're tracking all that?

[Danny Goler]

Oh yeah, yeah, we're trying to figure it out all the time.

[Interviewer]

Didn't I read that you're doing some AI tooling and putting all this information to AI to try to track the patterns?

[Danny Goler]

Yeah. Now we developed some tools with the help of Chris Paris and Sterling Cooley and we developed a software into Apple Vision Pro that allows you to label these. So we actually took a very high resolution image of the band of light. You see it inside of Apple Vision Pro and what is surprising is that you all of a sudden have an image of the code if you're on DMT that is frozen. It's no longer moving, it's frozen.

[Interviewer]

It's a snapshot.

[Danny Goler]

It's a snapshot of the code in Apple Vision. Yep.

[Interviewer]

But you don't see it unless you're on dmt.

[Danny Goler]

On dmt. Oh my God, it's wild. And now you can label it. So basically we have a little thing that runs and allows you to mark what you're seeing. So there's location, a world state, brain state. So it registers your brain is being scanned. So it read it, it takes a snapshot of your brain in that moment and where you clicked and then it gives you a radio menu that allows you to pick out of six symbols. So you can now label this is what I saw or this is what I saw. This is what I saw. And over time it will build up a stone of what you're reporting and where and then you can compare it with other people.

[Interviewer]

Well, the snapshot is, is crazy because that sort of, I mean obviously you're familiar with Andrew Galmore and, and you know that he's a skeptic and the speckle theory and all that. He still thinks the work is important if, if you're capturing it in Vision Pro. I Think the speckle theory goes away?

[Danny Goler]

Not necessarily. I'll tell you why. Because the information seems to be still holographic in nature. Like it has this kind of like a three dimensional thing which should not happen in a camera or can't because the camera only registers amplitude. It would collapse any. Anything with phase. Right. So that tells you that there is some projection going on to either some degree or to an infinite degree. Then the question becomes, is it like a barcode? Like, is it kind of like that particular arrangement? So the only way to really answer that is to figure out if people are seeing the exact same thing in the exact same place. Because if they do, then clearly there's information in the image, however it is that it happens. But now you can start investigating that. But we need to answer that question first. So I don't want to get ahead of ourselves. There is an interesting theory. I don't know if you heard me. I just released an episode with him, with Anthony Ness. He wrote, is an independent researcher and he wrote a little piece that I thought was brilliantly written. The idea there is that he thinks that the reason people seeing at least very similar things is because essentially what is happening with the laser experiment is that we're gaining, gaining a glance back into our own brains. Literally we're seeing the network called V1, responsible for moving information from your eyes to your brain. And we're looking at the semi crystalline structure of it and nothing else. And that's why it's so similar, because across individuals it's similar. Like the, the. Now, me and him agreed that if we discern that people report the same symbols in the same place in the image, that theory goes away because you can't have. It will never be that specific. Right, right. So. But there's a lot of work to be done. Also. I mentioned this before, but what I really love is this idea that we have now because it's going to require a little bit more of a budget, but we'll get there. Basically, if what Anthony is saying is correct, and we're basically looking at the canvas, so to speak, then can we bring content back in a targeted way? Can we use intracranial magnetic stimulation to stimulate particular parts of the brain to try and induce content back into the image and see if it matches with what we expect to see, that would also be a fun one.

[Interviewer]

That's a great experiment.

[Danny Goler]

Yeah.

[Interviewer]

I'm glad that you said it could still be Speckle and the Vision Pro.

[Danny Goler]

I don't. So sorry, I'm cutting you off. So like it's not that it, it's, it's not that it can't be speckle or still can be speckle. That to me is a side question. Remember when they, all the hints they left and all that stuff and what made me arrive at the laser? Speckle was the prerequisite. That's the thing they paint on. So they need a random pattern to paint on.

[Interviewer]

Right.

[Danny Goler]

So it's the same as saying. Well, because Andrew was saying for longer. Well, if you eliminate the speckle will go away. Yeah, but that's the same as saying, why don't you just use ambient light? There's a reason why they say the laser. Because laser can produce speckle. That was the prerequisite to be able to see it.

[Interviewer]

Right?

[Danny Goler]

Yeah, Laser, yeah. It wasn't. They didn't say put a light. They said, no, no, it needs to be a laser because you need light scattering to see it. Which is, which was the original idea. Now that's just not, that's just the wrong question to ask because it doesn't parse whether they're still communicating or not communicating. If speckle is the canvas on which they're painting, it doesn't nullify the idea that they're painting on it. What we're asking is what can we do with this that will tell us that it's actual information, however it is that is being projected.

[Interviewer]

How do we build that experiment to prove or disprove it?

[Danny Goler]

That's that the, the Apple Vision Pro experiment will, would definitely make headway. Because if there's correlation, not just correlation, but like actual replication of like where people reporting the characters, you're no longer at liberty to say it's some stochastic pattern. No, literally there's a signal that is across individuals, everybody seeing the same thing.

[Interviewer]

So it's mind blowing.

[Danny Goler]

Again, we don't know that that's true yet.

[Interviewer]

Yeah, yeah, but no, I like that you're skeptical and you're not trying to sell this.

[Danny Goler]

No, we're interested in what is true to me. Like I said, the null hypothesis flipped because my interaction with them, with whomever they are, it's so clear to me that they're real because I've interacted with them so many times, just like I'm talking to you now, that for anybody to convince me that they're not real would take as much if not more than for me to convince the whole scientific community that it is real. So like, that does not mean that I'm unmovable in my position. But I can't occupy any other state of knowing than I currently do. So it's like I'm a. I'm cheating a little bit in the sense that I almost. Like, I know the answer, that they are real, but it's not that that is unmovable. Like, if we can devise an experiment that will show me beyond the shadow without. Yes, the whole time. This was like a really elaborate way of your brain of dealing with that information and somehow it can be replicated across individuals. And if we can devise that experiment, I'll spend it on a dime. There's no, like, I'm interested in what, in fact is true.

[Interviewer]

I'm so happy to hear that. I mean, even Andrew, who's skeptical about it, says it's still very important work. Very interesting work. Tell me about the console room. That was a crazy story.

[Danny Goler]

Yeah. So it's not a room. It's literally an object that appears in whatever room I'm in. Okay. Now, recently, actually, very interestingly, there was almost like a. Which I've never seen before. Actually. That's not true. There was other. One other instance where that happened for like a couple of weeks where all of a sudden the console didn't appear. Then it reappeared again. And recently we were doing tests. One day we were doing it with Tom Matt, who's the guy who developed this ability called upsight. And he sees these holographic images just naturally. And we did it with him and. And when he was present, I don't know if it was related to his presence, but just when we were doing it together, it just didn't appear. And we're like, oh, that's weird, because we were trying to compare the console with. And I'll explain what it is. So basically I, After I started talking about the laser, I smoke some DMT in the kitchen and my wife is like, cooking or something, and all of a sudden this thing appears in front of me. Just imagine like the most realistic augmented reality. So I still see the room, but then there's this. As real as this bottle. And just a capsule appears in the middle of the room. And it's not. It's holographic in nature. So it's kind of like this hovers in space, but it's as opaque as this mic stand. It's not like the translucent even thing. It's just like straight up, like enclosed. And I was like, what? And then it opened and a podium came out and arranged itself into menus, a pair of gloves and a carousel that was moving to my left like this.

[Narrator]

Wow.

[Danny Goler]

Like VR glasses. And recently I saw an interview. Carter actually sent me an interview with him. There's this because I spoke to a few psychonauts that experienced like similar things, like screens, things like this, but for them it was more like haphazard. Once in a while for me, it started appearing 100% of the time. It's the same exact thing. It has the exact same parameters. The screens can be different, but the body, so to speak, the thing that opens up and does the presentation is the same.

[Interviewer]

No matter what room you're in.

[Danny Goler]

It doesn't matter. Even if I'm outside, it will coat the street. Like it would literally coat. Like it would open like on the street, coat the sidewalk. Like everything. It's insane. So then recently, I don't remember his name, but when we finish, I'll give you his name. Super interesting interview. There's this guy who for sure, I can tell you without a shadow of it, he's seeing the console for sure. Same story. He did it many, many, many times. I think that what happens is that you need a certain amount of usage of DMT in a short period of time. I think he said he did like 250 in like a very short period of time.

[Interviewer]

Yeah.

[Danny Goler]

And all of a sudden, and again he's like super, you know, like cogent. Not like one of these like super hyperbolic people. It is like. And you can see he's blown away by this. This is the tail sign. Somebody is actually seeing it. Because whenever people say, oh yeah, I see the console, I'm like, there's no way you're seeing the console. Because you wouldn't be talking about it like that because it's crazy. There's no way you would just kind of say it and just move on. And he. All the signs that he's seeing it for sure he's describing it correctly.

[Interviewer]

The same device, well, very similar in

[Danny Goler]

the way that it executes itself is like. I don't understand. It's like it's in space and you can see that is struggling to deliver the realism of it. That's the thing that crazy about it. In DMT worlds, you can see insane things. Insane things. Well, you know, like multidimensional things and giant machines. But it's part of a larger world that you're like, okay, I'm in. I'm in la la land now. So it makes sense. Yeah, this is just normal thing. And it's just imagine like all of a sudden a camera with just like holographic camera. They just appear and hover and look at you and you're like, what is going on? And it's very futuristic and it's. It's beautiful. Beautiful. It's. It's so perfectly designed, just like you would imagine, like a super advanced civilization would do. Right.

[Interviewer]

What do you see on the menus? What's the.

[Narrator]

What's on the screen?

[Danny Goler]

It's very hard to discern. It's almost like some of it is almost like that code. There's, like, things that are moving. It's very hard to interact with it because it's like the amount of. The amount of brain power you have to induce to actually interact with it and look at it is enormous. That's why I usually were just kind of looking at it, because it was exhausting. Yes, but, but, but the, the. The thing that is the more realistic than the menus is the body of the thing. I created a little illustration of it on the video I put out about this. And it's pretty close to, like, how real it feels. When we're done, I'll show you. Like, also, we put it into VR and just so you understand how real it feels. And it opens up like this, like, you know, like a capsule. There's these parts on the floor that are all opening up at the same time. There's like iridescent lights running on the rims. It's like a real object. Like, you put Apple Vision Pro and they're just like augmented reality here. So at that point you go, like, what are the chances that with everything else, that all of that is like a hallucination. Come on. Like, this is like it's just being. It's like, you know, like an alien civilization is, like, talking to you, and you're gonna keep pretending like it's not happening.

[Interviewer]

It can't be.

[Narrator]

How are you able to stay in the room?

[Interviewer]

I mean, because when I go, I'm gone.

[Danny Goler]

Yeah. No, that. That requires the ability to be able to kind of function on pretty high doses. Yeah, it takes some practice, but.

[Interviewer]

Which you can do.

[Danny Goler]

Absolutely. Yeah, I can drive on it. I wouldn't recommend.

[Interviewer]

But that reminds me, gotta tell the story about when you were driving to Vegas on, like, what, 5,400, something like that?

[Narrator]

Yeah. Micrograms.

[Danny Goler]

Yeah. At least about 5,000. Yeah.

[Interviewer]

Which is what? I guess, like, 50 hits each one.

[Danny Goler]

Well, depending how much on each one. Yeah. It was 54, I think. But.

[Interviewer]

Were you just popping squares?

[Danny Goler]

I was. I was driving to a canelo fight. Oh, my God.

[Narrator]

I was.

[Danny Goler]

I was dating back then. This Colombian girl, man. Things I put her through, bless her heart. But, but she was, she was a reporter in that she did a lot of things, but she also reporting on sport events and things like this and that's a gig she was doing back then. So she had ringside tickets and she was already there. Obviously I would never put her through that. But then she was already there and then I, Yeah, it wasn't just asset. I did everything you can imagine, but I was. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Interviewer]

I don't know how you could do it.

[Danny Goler]

I don't know either. But, but, but the thing is I wanted to see where the line was and, and it was, it was definitely there. The, the, the part that really is funny to me because recently I, I did tell the story recently a few times. It re. Emerged. And the thing that was, it is funny to me every time I think about this because when I stopped there was a moment after 30 plus of them that, that I wasn't actually sure what was happening. Like that that happened. Well, I mean I wasn't sure because I'm. Oh, I always know somehow what's going on. And that's the thing I was testing. Is it really infinite for me? Like, can I get to a place where I really don't understand what's happening? And it kind of got there, but then very quickly I realized that I actually don't know where I am. Actually don't know where I stopped. I was like, I'm stopped. I know the car is not moving, but I don't know where I'm parked.

[Interviewer]

What does it look like?

[Danny Goler]

Well, no, it's on the. What's the road where we pass from LA to Vegas? What's the main, what is it, 90 something something. Right. So I'm on it. So it's not very wide.

[Interviewer]

I mean, what do you see with your eyes? I mean.

[Danny Goler]

Oh, no, no.

[Interviewer]

When I'm tripping, I don't see the road.

[Danny Goler]

No, no. So you. I. It depends on your attention. So if your attention is really dialed in, you will see whatever it is you're trying to see and there's going to be interference pattern, but you can look through it like you can just, you know, you can see.

[Interviewer]

That's what I'm trying to learn is this level of control is very unusual,

[Danny Goler]

but it's not necessarily a good thing. Like you actually letting. Later after that, I realized letting go is actually the secret. You don't need a lot. Like you need a tiny bit if you let go and you go. Right. If you, if Your point is to prove to yourself something which is kind of what I was doing then. Yeah, but like, I wouldn't recommend this to anyone.

[Narrator]

No.

[Danny Goler]

Creates a lot of tension. But when. That part is funny to me because when I. When I stopped again, that road is what, two lanes? Maybe that's it. But then I was like, I thought. I thought that I stopped at one of these, like, exits that also has like a reentrance. Then I realized, actually, I don't know that. So, like, I don't know if I'm in the middle of the road right now. I actually am not sure. And I didn't have. You know how your short term memory just suffers tremendously?

[Interviewer]

Yes.

[Danny Goler]

So imagine on that amount of acid, I don't know anything beyond the immediate second. So I was like, wait, and then I will try to look out to see where I am. And I couldn't do it. I literally could not, like, remember what. Every time I would turn to look, I was like, why was I looking? What was the. What was the reason for me? And then I realized, okay, okay. Why do I care? That's why. Oh, because. Okay, police stops me, I don't know where I am. Literally in space and clearly gonna see something's wrong. Yep, I have a lot of stuff in the car.

[Interviewer]

But your pupils are just black.

[Danny Goler]

Forget about that. I have a bunch of things in the car that will definitely get me in a lot of trouble. So then I was like, okay,

[Additional Commentator]

all

[Danny Goler]

right, so I'm just gonna keep driving and then.

[Interviewer]

Just gonna keep driving.

[Danny Goler]

Yeah, I have to keep moving. And then I realized I don't. I wasn't even sure if I'm going in the right direction anymore. But then I knew, then I knew that the cars pass. I had enough, like, sensibility to know that cars pass me behind me. It's good. And if cars come in front of me, it's bad.

[Interviewer]

Bad.

[Danny Goler]

But then I, It's. I had to think in binaries, right?

[Interviewer]

But there's a wheel and there's pedals.

[Danny Goler]

Then there was just my knuckle.

[Narrator]

No.

[Danny Goler]

And the, and. And the lines and the build road. And I know if there's a bit of a distance between my knuckle to the line of the road, if it's to the left of my right, doesn't matter. But it can't just keep your knuckle. It can't be too far. And then I just kept on doing that. And the GPS would just tell me where to go.

[Interviewer]

This is not recommended.

[Danny Goler]

No, no. And then at that point in for a penny, in for a pound. I just kept on popping them, and I got finished. Everything I had. But then, actually, another funny moment was when I was giving the card to the valet. I wish I remember what hotel it was. Maybe it was. When did they usually do fights? It's one of the hotels. It was mgm. Usually, maybe. Oh, yeah, Maybe it was mgm. The guy came to me, and I remember practicing, and he opened the door. I'm like.

[Interviewer]

You're like, okay, this is how I'm gonna look sober.

[Danny Goler]

I just gave him the thing. And I was like, I don't. And I just gave him my wallet. Just like, I don't. Because I know I have cash there. He understood that.

[Interviewer]

He knew.

[Danny Goler]

Don't ask questions. Just take the thing. Yeah, yeah.

[Interviewer]

But you couldn't even tell what denomination these bills are.

[Danny Goler]

I will show you a picture of me with my ex in front of the. Like, in that event, I don't think you can tell that I'm even high. Like, it's. You know, it's like, I'm fine, but, like, it's really. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But to me, it felt like I'm just like, it's the most Banana puffs. Like, yeah, yeah.

[Interviewer]

When you're too high and that voice in your mind is like, all right, you're too high.

[Danny Goler]

Well, this is the thing. I just kind of melt into it. Like, I don't know why I have this ability. I don't claim special. Like, I didn't have to work for it. That's just how I am. I just accept it. I just let go. I just. Like, whatever happens, I don't know. Like, one time I thought I'm. It was a different time, and it was way less. But then that night, I truly lost my mind. Like, I actually lost my mind. And I knew that, too. Like, I knew that I simply. I'm simply no longer tracking what's going on at all. All. I couldn't even remember Frogger, the game. Yeah, that's what I was playing with. Information. So, basically, I would want to tell you a sentence, but in order for me to get it to the other side of the street, I have to go through all these, like, enormous amounts of information moving in front of me, and I. I'm, like, locked in, and I can't even. I have to wait until there's this one opening, and I will tell you one word. So. And I would say one word every seven minutes. I'd be like, Vegas. And after a few minutes. Good, because I remembered, like, now I Can say it to you, but it was all part of the same sentence.

[Interviewer]

So, like, were you when you party.

[Danny Goler]

And then. And then a friend of mine was, like, driving me around, and at a certain point, I was convinced. Convinced that we, by mistake, killed someone.

[Interviewer]

What?

[Danny Goler]

That's what I thought that happened. Like, I thought. And then somehow we talked our way out of it. But, like, obviously none of this ever happened. But that's how much I lost it. Like I thought. And then I'm sitting there, like, just looking at him. And there was something about that moment. I remember he was driving to la, to the city. And all of a sudden, because of how high I was, the whole city opened up to the right. And it looked like New York because the building just stretched the horizon. And he had these, like, harnesses that he had is just these beautiful kind of like harnesses that he got in Burning man. Just keep things in. And I. And he was trying to calm me down because he saw I just, I. I'm off the deep end, right?

[Interviewer]

We didn't kill anybody.

[Danny Goler]

No, no. He, like, he. It wasn't just that. I was just, like, completely out of it. And then he was trying to call me dumb, so he played some classical music. So at that point, I looked at him and I looked at New York is what I thought New York was. And I see his harnesses, and I thought it was gun holsters. And I look at him and I go. And I thought we were Italian mobsters. And I go, this is so gangster. And he looked at me and he's like, okay. And he told me later. He's like, at that point when you said that, I was like, you're on your own, buddy. Like, I, I, I, I can't help. I hope you'll come back. And I remember this so clearly that I. There's no way that I could communicate any of this, but I didn't. I thought, this is how I'm gonna stay now. I was convinced. This is how I am now. I'm crazy. I don't know what that looks like.

[Interviewer]

Did you. Were, Were you regretting it?

[Danny Goler]

Like, no, no, no. In that moment, I just accepted it.

[Interviewer]

Just like, I'm a gangster and.

[Danny Goler]

No, no, no, I'm crazy now.

[Interviewer]

I'm crazy.

[Danny Goler]

Oh, yeah, Yeah. I was like, okay, that I'm. This is what lunacy is. Like, actual. Not funny one, but, like, actual lunacy.

[Interviewer]

Yes.

[Danny Goler]

And I'm a lunatic now. Like, I'm actually, like, deranged and, like, incapable of formulating, like, connecting between what is actually happening.

[Interviewer]

You remember the relief during the comedown? Like, oh, my God, I'm okay. I'm okay.

[Danny Goler]

I think there was some of it that. That part is actually hard for me to remember. I think it just passed out at a certain point. But I do remember that moment because I was looking at this. You know, when you attach either a strong emotion or a visual, it's easier to remember. So that visual always stay with me, which is like. Because I saw. I saw him go like this when I said the gangster thing. So I realized I didn't guess correctly because he went like this. He went like. Like when he did that, I was like, oh, I'm cuckoo. I'm cuckoo. So then I was like, oh, okay. So then, okay. And then I was like. And I could totally see how this is how people lose it because they freak out right there. I didn't freak out. I was just like, yeah, okay. That's where I live now. And that's what it is. And I don't know why. I just accept what it is and that's. It.

[Interviewer]

Was this after your Vipassana journey?

[Narrator]

No.

[Danny Goler]

No, no, no, it wasn't. I was. That was way before. That was before I was surprised. Why?

[Interviewer]

Because you. Because most people would panic and you just. And you just accepted.

[Danny Goler]

No, I always had this. I always had. Where I just kind of. If it's too crazy, I just accept it. And I stopped trying to, like. I stopped trying to flail around. I just like, okay, let's go.

[Interviewer]

Well, it's so smart, because that's the best way to have a bad trip. Is to fight.

[Danny Goler]

Yeah, to fight. Yeah. Yeah. So I can't. Don't claim, like, special. Had to, like, work on it.

[Interviewer]

Just.

[Danny Goler]

Maybe it's genetic. I don't know why that is. And there's something about chaos. Not there. There was. It was. There was a moment of kind of. I guess. What would you call this emotion? Maybe sorrow. There was like a. Because I lost everybody, basically. I accepted that maybe I will never know truly like, anybody again because I don't understand what is actually happening. And there's no way I can communicate. So there was this kind of grief. But in other places where it is still very manageable and all that stuff, I somehow. I really enjoy the chaos. And the best way for me to describe it is that when things are super chaotic, you actually become invisible. There's solace in that. Almost like when. When there's a storm, nobody's looking at you.

[Interviewer]

True.

[Danny Goler]

So it's just, you know, it's not you're hidden within the chaos.

[Interviewer]

Right.

[Danny Goler]

And there's something very comforting about that for me. I don't know why that is now. Since then, obviously I'm, at this point, I'm a very different person. You know, I'm a responsible father. I'm, you know, there's a. But I'm so happy that I had these experiences because I know how deep the rabbit hole goes. I know what can go wrong. And also I, I do know that it. This is not the norm. Like, not everybody kind of stays level headed that way. And this is why I'm very, very careful with recommending any of this to anyone or anything like this. Because I feel like there's a lot of things that can happen that are not as, you know, what the meme media would like to portray it to be. There can be a lot of things that can go wrong with these things.

[Interviewer]

Absolutely true. What was the normal day like when you were OCD back when you were

[Danny Goler]

a kid before you fix that? Yeah, that was wild. Yeah, I had this like insane OCD, which is like, you know, opening a door 2,000 times and not being able to leave. It's the most excruciating, I think.

[Interviewer]

Was that one of your ticks the door?

[Danny Goler]

I wouldn't even call it a tick. I guess you can call it a repetitive tick. The thing is, a tic is something that, that just kind of happens right in the body usually. But this is like a task that you have to perform, otherwise nothing is right. And it's not even like, you know, people sometimes describe it like, you know, check the stove or my whole family will die. Well, yeah, there's sometimes these intrusive thoughts, but mostly it's just the feeling of wrongness is dialed up to a 12. It's like, it's not even like a. There needs not be a reason. It's not even for any reason. It's just that if you don't do this right now, it's so wrong. Everything is just wrong. You have to do it.

[Interviewer]

You can't proceed.

[Danny Goler]

You can't proceed.

[Interviewer]

Right.

[Danny Goler]

You have to complete this now.

[Narrator]

Yes.

[Danny Goler]

It's such a crazy. I know that people live this with this into their, you know, adult life. Dude, I can't even imagine. That's so. The fact that I feel so blessed that somehow it left me and I think it's due to mushrooms. But yeah, it's like you go and

[Interviewer]

someone in their 50s, that still does.

[Additional Commentator]

Yeah.

[Danny Goler]

You come to the door, you're about to. I remember this. I was Coming. I came back from school, there was no. No one home. And you can usually only do this when no one is home, because then you will be caught. And then there's shame in doing that. Right. So then I'm like. Just looked at the door, and you always felt like it was coming on. It's like, oh, is that feeling. It's like, right here.

[Narrator]

Here.

[Danny Goler]

And like. And you're like. And then you. Okay, I'll just do a small one. And then you do the small one, and the small one breaks apart into smaller ones. It's like, oh. Even the way I entered the key into the door, it had to actually go, like, a little too. To the left or to the right, and then back out. And then. And then after you're done with that, it's like, okay, now the handle. No, we have to go back again. Now the key again.

[Interviewer]

Oh, God.

[Danny Goler]

And you stand there, and sometimes you just. You like. I don't remember if I actually, like, broke into tears, but you want to just, like, cry because you're like, please let me go. Like, I just want to do. It's awful. It's. If there was one thing. I'm sure there are most horrible conditions that probably involve, you know, physical pain, also cluster headaches, things like this. But that's. That's got to be up there.

[Interviewer]

Yeah.

[Danny Goler]

In terms of psychological torture.

[Interviewer]

Torture.

[Danny Goler]

It's. If I can wave a magic wand and one of the things I get to choose is to eliminate. Would be this. I would be. I. I can. I can say I made the world, like, orders of magnitude better. It's so awful.

[Interviewer]

Well, didn't. Didn't you eliminate it for yourself with.

[Danny Goler]

Yes, but I can't point to, like, a particular thing. Like, I just noticed it in my 20s that it was gone. It was just gone. And I was like, oh. And then I started retracing my steps, and I was like, oh, it must have been the mushrooms, because it. Because I know the time. No, I didn't even notice it was gone.

[Narrator]

Wow.

[Additional Commentator]

Yeah.

[Danny Goler]

I didn't even notice it was gone because you don't think about it when it doesn't happen. And that's.

[Narrator]

Right.

[Danny Goler]

Preoccupied for whatever period. And, you know, and then I think it was like, 20. I don't remember, maybe 25, 26. And I was like, wait a second. Forget what made me realize it. But something did. Maybe even. I think I smoked weed or something. And all of a sudden I was like, wait, I remember I had. And I didn't have it in, like, over a Decade. And then I realized it must be the mushrooms, because I remember every time you do mushrooms, there's this smoothening of your psyche that you just kind of happens.

[Interviewer]

Absolutely right. That's a great way to describe it.

[Danny Goler]

Yeah.

[Interviewer]

That's why I do it every six months or so.

[Danny Goler]

That's amazing.

[Interviewer]

You know, go to Sedona, chill out.

[Danny Goler]

Yeah. So just so you know, if you actually suffer from this, there's a real possibility that you can actually fully remedy this with mushrooms. And I think. I think there's some data to actually support this.

[Interviewer]

I think you're right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it's really nice that psychedelic therapy is becoming a real thing and legalized

[Danny Goler]

all over the country and hopefully now on the federal level, and it will spill into other things, not just ibogaine, but.

[Interviewer]

Yeah, I hope so. Ketamine therapy is helping a lot of people.

[Danny Goler]

Yeah, well, I mean, the data is there, so it is there. The ibogaine thing opened. Right. It's there now. Federal budget is a whole other ball. Ballpark right now. If the data is there, which it is, it will open the door to many, many others. There's a university in Brazil right now that is doing an official study on smoked version of DMT and chronicle depression. And they show tremendous results. Reinvigoration of the spirit and all that stuff. Like, literally, people just come out of it, basically.

[Interviewer]

I'm not surprised.

[Danny Goler]

Yeah.

[Interviewer]

What it is about 42. Why does that show up? Why is it everywhere? Is that really like a Douglas Adams thing?

[Danny Goler]

Yeah, I think so. Look, there's. I mean, again, the simple answer is, who knows? Right. But my suspicion is that usually folklore.

[Interviewer]

Yeah.

[Danny Goler]

Contains nuggets of truth, and it kind of. It's almost like it winks at you. Right. So I don't know how much you know about Douglas Adams, but he was a very secular person. So if you would ask him, he would tell you to take a hike. He'd be like, this is. It's. It's a. It's a way to illustrate a point. Questions are more important than answers, is the point. Right. But he. Because he was so creative, which clearly he was, he might have been more tapped in than he realized. Maybe 42 actually means something.

[Interviewer]

I think you're right. He was only 25, 26 when he. When he wrote Hitchhikers.

[Danny Goler]

Yeah. And he's also, from what I'm observing kind of in the DMT world and all of that, is that he was basically right about what's going on. He was just wrong about the scale.

[Interviewer]

Right.

[Danny Goler]

So the computer that calculates the ultimate question isn't Earth, it's the multiverse. But it is what is happening. That's basically what's going on. That's the teleology of the multiverse, basically. Yeah, it's true.

[Interviewer]

He died too young. So much.

[Danny Goler]

Well, so many great quotes. My favorite one is, was it, I love deadlines. I love, I love the whooshing sound they make when they pass me by.

[Interviewer]

I forgot about that one. So you became kind of famous for this DMT experiment. What's the downsides to that? What?

[Danny Goler]

I don't see one really. Yeah, I think, I think I enjoy the ride and at the same time I found a really responsible way of communicating it. So, you know, some people might disagree, but I think that overall my message is stability of mind, stability of spirit before you enter any investigation of the flavor required. And also really front and center for me is the future of humanity and how we view ourselves. And I do believe that what the code is, the fact that it's allowed to be seen and many other things, not the only thing, many, many other things, including people going through basically left and right awakenings and things like this is part of what is actually in the cards for us. Like people, you know, this is a real thing. Like people just wake up and they have basically magic powers. And I've seen this happen. So now I think that there's nothing more exciting than to do a thing you really love to be able to talk about it with people and get excited about it together and contribute in different ways to how people go through these experiences. Not just psychedelic experiences, but like, you know, awakenings and things like this. And I'm becoming more and more in the presence and awareness of many people who are going through a lot of these big experiences, not just with psychedelics. Again. So it's a pretty. I mean, I can't complain. I love my life. I'm, you know, I'm married to the love of my life. I have an incredible baby daughter that, you know, she's. She's literally like a gift from God. I have an incredible family that loves me and I love them. Everybody are healthy and I get to do what I really love and, and enjoy these, like, super high concepts. And at the same time, I don't have to answer to academia, which it, I mean, I, you know, it's, it's very important work, but it can be such a drag in terms of, you know, like, what you can or cannot say. And I don't have to. I don't have to follow that.

[Interviewer]

Then you get published in IPI Letters.

[Danny Goler]

Yeah, but that's. That's more like an. It's not. It's not like a peer review paper. It's more like a newsletter in a physics newsletter. But still. But again, I'm not. Nobody in academia is paying me to do what I do. What I mean is that you. You actually can lose your job if you say the wrong thing as a physicist or. That's a real thing.

[Interviewer]

Yep.

[Danny Goler]

It's not like a conspiracy theory. That's a fact. You can lose your position in the faculty and beyond, like, even your possibility of working in the field, which is so crazy. It's just like, you know. But, yeah, I mean, I. I don't see any downsides in that regard. I do understand a certain weight of the responsibility of being as honest of a reporter as I can and try my absolute best not to, like, remember if I'm confabulating something in the sense that I'm maybe misplacing a memory or like, this is the only, like, I would say, struggle, which is, like. Because the mind is very chaotic very often and kind of like if something happened long ago enough, it's sometimes hard to kind of know what exactly it was. So then if I'm not sure that I won't report it. But that's the only thing I can think of is like, you know, that is like a struggle.

[Interviewer]

Well, Code of reality has a leader, a following, rituals, a set of beliefs, a cosmology, a community. Sounds like a faith.

[Danny Goler]

Yeah, I would strongly disagree with that statement. So the tail sign of a belief system is that it aims at. The main focus is believing the thing, and usually at the exclusion of anything that can alter what is being believed. You see what I'm saying?

[Interviewer]

I do.

[Danny Goler]

So the reason that what I see us doing is science. Science proper, even though many would disagree. And that's okay. We call this cognitive physics, which essentially is the physics of cognition itself. It's investigation of reality proper in that we take into account new findings and what we see and modify our views accordingly. But we are asking the question from a more of an idealistic position, like, if consciousness in fact is the fundamental thing, what are the rules by which it executes itself and operates from the perspective of at least one agent, like consciousness within it. So things like Donald, people like Donald Hoffman, the kind of work that he does, I would also call cognitive physics, even though he probably won't call it that because, you know, why would you make up a term? But to Us, it's important because I think it's different than neuroscience, let's say that asks the question from the brain perspective. So, like, what is the brain doing? The causes X? So no, I would. And it's not. And I don't, I don't even mean it in a defensive manner. I mean it just like technically I would disagree with that because, and I know that this criticism sometimes is hurled at what we do. I invite anyone to look at the ways in which we approach this. It is true that I allow myself a very free flowing thought kind of rhetoric on podcasts and things like this, but when it comes to, you know, being honest about what we know scientifically, I'll be the first one to admit there's a hard line between what I'm allowing myself to say on a podcast in terms of maybe or even tell you that, hey, I'm convinced of X because of why that's fine. That's me, Danny Goler. In my experience, I'm not expecting people to follow me there. I don't encourage anyone to just follow me there. I'm saying if it makes sense to you, great, but I'll be the first one and we'll say it again and again. If new data comes in the flies in the face of what I'm saying, it will automatically win, not what I think or convince of.

[Interviewer]

Truth wins.

[Danny Goler]

Truth always wins.

[Interviewer]

What are you're doing retreats now?

[Danny Goler]

Yes.

[Interviewer]

What are those?

[Danny Goler]

Like, those are amazing. We weren't sure if the first one we did, but like after the first one it became clear that we're doing something super awesome because people were just transformed. And a lot of people come for the laser. But very often it becomes about something completely different, which is just because I have so much experience now of seeing how different people go through different kinds of transformations. And I rely on the fact that I brought two of the top facilitators in the world that are doing, you know, both of these medicines, both the NN and 5 MeO. We're essentially allowing people to explore the deepest, you know, the deepest spaces of who they really are. And the laser is available and we fold it into some kind of a part of the experience with the ontological shock, how you handle it and all that stuff. But really what it's about, it's about transformation, which again, you know, we're obviously not the only retreat in the world that does that.

[Interviewer]

Right.

[Danny Goler]

But the way that I would say that we do, I think, stand out to some degree is that I call it spiritual graduation. Not in the vain sense of like, you know, we're making people Buddhas or anything like this. Nothing of a kind, but in the sense that we're asking the question, what is it like to be in grad school? Right. When you go to school, your professor doesn't want you to stay in school forever. They want you to take the tools and apply them in the real world. Right. So very often retreats focus very much, which, by the way, I'm not berating. I think it's very important. But it's usually under the banner of like, okay, you bow and listen and that's all you do. You just listen and listen and listen. We're changing it a little bit. It's like you're a player in this game. What does that look like? How are all the tools that you are carrying from who you are in the 3D world, how it can actually inform a larger picture of what's to come? And we're using a lot of the tools at our disposal to help people connect to that intuition and actually, well, channel is the wrong word because I don't necessarily like that word. But they channel. Not from another dimension, but, like, how do they channel their abilities in a way that is constructive for something more than just themselves? By trusting themselves in these very expansive spaces? How do you learn how to maneuver through these waters, Bring something back that can actually execute itself through you in a way that is conducive to a better humanity?

[Interviewer]

Are you coaching them through the session?

[Danny Goler]

Yeah, yeah, we do. We have a lot of talks. We do a lot of somatic work. We do breath work with Jeremy Jackson, who's phenomenal. Yes, the Jeremy Jackson from. From Baywatch. He's. He's such a. Wow. He's such a wow person. It's unbelievable. And. And yeah, I mean, we're really proud of what we've created. We're going to have another one in December and we're going to do seven next year and we're going to do more. Like it's. There's going to be, like, smaller ones, but those are super, you know, comprehensive. It's seven or eight days, depending on the. On the season. But, you know, people come seven or eight days depending on the. On exactly the dates, and usually eight, but sometimes seven. But the result is the same, which is a matter of, like, arrival time and that kind of stuff. And so far, we not only pass with flying colors, people just. And what's more. And this is the real sign of success for me, what we've created, created community Already of people that constantly keep in touch, go visit each other all over the world. This is not just like a thing that people went to and literally everybody like one hub, something opened, something opens in them. So I have tremendous confidence in what we do there. So if anybody is interested, is just. Cor retreat. Cor retreat. Calm.

[Interviewer]

I was excited to see you doing. Yeah, I wish every leader of every country would just do a mushroom trip.

[Danny Goler]

Yeah.

[Interviewer]

Be no more war. It'd be so chill.

[Danny Goler]

Yeah, that would be a really cool experiment. Who created that AI video of Trump and Putin and everybody?

[Interviewer]

I don't remember that. That's funny. All right, I want to take a quick break.

[Danny Goler]

Sure.

[Interviewer]

When we come back, I think there's something that people are missing about the laser, that it's. I think it might be a doorway to something, and I want to talk about that. Sure. Right back. And you said something at some point that I found really interesting is that reality is rendered, but that doesn't mean fake. Rendered, not fake. I want to know what you think the simulation is running on and who's running it.

[Danny Goler]

Yeah. So it's run. I don't know what the substrate is. It clearly runs on computational rules. I mean, it's pretty clear at this point, even from just observing physics. Melvin Vobson's work is very informative in that regard, but also many others. And who's running it is a bit more plucked out of a comic book, but, yeah, that's okay. Yeah, but from what I see, it's basically the insectoids. They're the ones rendering our physical environment, our world.

[Interviewer]

We got. Everyone says that. Melvin Fobson, he's physicist. This is infodynamics. Is that what he.

[Danny Goler]

Yes. Second law of Infodynamics. IPI is actually his physics journal.

[Narrator]

Right.

[Interviewer]

So. So what's the second law of Infodynamics?

[Danny Goler]

It's essentially, he discovered that there's a. His claim that it's a new law, just like the second law of thermodynamics. And basically, it has. Inverse is the wrong word, according to Melvin, but it feels inverse. But basically, just like the second law of thermodynamics states that entropy increases over time and it never decreases in an open system. Wait, we're in a closed system? I think in the closed system, in second law of Infodynamics, he discovered that when you're talking about the aggregation of information, it follows the exact opposite trend, which means that it actually decreases over time and then asymptotes towards zero. So basically, he observed physical systems through symmetry in nature, he observed the evolution of organisms through looking at the enormous amount of data we have on Covid.

[Interviewer]

Yep.

[Danny Goler]

Because we had it in a very short period of time, which was very unique. And we had our hands on the data, which is also very unique. And. And the third one is he looked at just computational systems, so, like hard drives, things like this. And he discovered that in all three cases, the. The. The more you evolve a system, the entropy of that informational pattern actually decreases in state. So which points to computational optimization. And because that also happens in physics, he said here, both all living things, all computational things, and all physical things are doing the same thing.

[Interviewer]

So it looks like compression.

[Danny Goler]

It looks like compression, exactly.

[Interviewer]

Error correction.

[Danny Goler]

Error correction. So optimization of computation, you would do that if you're running a computational system. Now, the reality of it is that really. And I asked Melvin on this, right. He just put a different emphasis on it. This is not a new idea. He gave it a name, and he showed this equivalence between the three things. But Wheeler famously coined it from Bit. Right, which is one of the most famous physicists of the last century, basically saying that after observing it and looking at everything, what makes more sense is to assume that under the laws of physics, there must be some computational space rendering it.

[Interviewer]

Yeah, that was one of his last theories.

[Danny Goler]

Yeah. And the interesting thing is I actually didn't know that. Interesting. And the interesting thing is that ultimately it's not very different than saying there's something behind the laws of physics, which, of course, we already knew. It's just. We didn't know what it was. We're just saying it's computation. And then you have to kind of answer what computation really is, which is a complicated conversation, but it is the abstraction itself, not the. The kind of substrate it's running on. It's the abstraction that is doing the work. Right. So. So there's something there that is informing physical matter, but for all intents and purposes, it can inform other things that would be different than physical matter. Right. People are never bothered to be rendered by the laws of physics. This shouldn't bother them any more than that. Which brings me to the second part of your question, which is, as long as there's a conscious agent, which is a mystery what that is, but as long as there's a conscious agent that can experience valence, so a quality of experience that has a certain degree of either comfortable or uncomfortable or even painful degrees, then it becomes what reality is. That's what reality is, is where the experience meets whatever in fact is unfolding and if what is unfolding is consciousness, that doesn't change anything. You're still in the same conundrum. As long as there's a conscious agent, either it's created or just always existed. That's what reality is. It doesn't matter how you came to be. The fact that you're having the experience is what. What justifies calling in reality.

[Interviewer]

How do you feel about Donald Hoffman's theory Interface theory?

[Danny Goler]

Incredible. Incredible. Holds an enormous promise for the future. I believe, and I do have huge faith in what they do. And the fact that he just collaborated with Andrew Gallimore and Andrew was very gracious to invite me to this event. It was called Traces of the Other. So they're, you know, Donald Hoffman's. He has the Trace Institute and they basically using what's called trace logic and mathematics to basically come out with a mathematical formulation of what, what's in store for consciousness as a whole. And according to them, they can make some predictions even as to what kind of conscious gestalt can arise given the change in the trace logic and what they call experience kernel, if I understand correctly, there's kind of sliding off the experience kernel frame. But it's an extremely promising framework, I think, and I'm very excited to dive into the specifics there. And I do think that maybe the laser can be one potential way of probing into their theory. Because the laser. And I spoke to one of the professors that is part of their operation, and we agreed, and he's a neuroscientist, he agreed that if we, if we have a stable object of observation in altered states, which is what the laser is, it doesn't even matter if you think it's a hallucinatory or not. The fact that it's stable for what it is and it seems to be similar or the same across individuals, it gives you something to actually study. It's a handle. And you can now basically try and trace the. The mathematical logic through the different states that people occupy. Because people experience the world in very different ways, depending on their mood, depending on whatever. Right. And see if we can actually create any departure for anyone with how the code appears. This can be an interesting thing to study.

[Interviewer]

Would this mean that the code is also another icon, an interface? It's not. It's not.

[Danny Goler]

Well, ultimately any content is. Yes. Like I don't really. We call it code of reality because we had to call it something and it kind of looks like a code that kind of happen. We have no idea what we're looking at. Not the first Clue.

[Narrator]

Right.

[Interviewer]

When people hear code, they almost think about computer programming. But it's more like symbology.

[Danny Goler]

Yes, but, but it does seem like I like again, this is where I have to kind of make clear separation. My intuition, it's not even a hypothesis. My intuition is that it is some kind of a language that reality speaks or your experience. It's almost like the pre buffer of what you experience at the world. Right. So maybe there is something there that is akin to a computer code, but it's just not arranged in the same way that you would have in a computer where it goes to a compiler and levels and communicate to machine level. It wouldn't be like that. It would be like a code that is instantiated in the environment itself. So just like a world kind of build itself through speaking to itself through this kind of linguistic representation. And maybe the reason it's discernible to conscious beings within the world is, is to find it is almost like another purpose that serves is for conscious agents within it when they're ripe to understand, to start to understand and then slowly kind of find their way out basically through it.

[Interviewer]

So the code is not content of the experience. It's not the machine elves. The code is infrastructure.

[Danny Goler]

The walls.

[Interviewer]

Yeah, it's the walls. So there's nothing below it?

[Danny Goler]

No, I'm sure there's like levels above it and below it and however it is that you want to imagine it. But I do believe that there's, there's more and more layers. Like when you go into five MEO state, it definitely feels more, it feels more like the architect.

[Interviewer]

Yes, it does, yeah.

[Danny Goler]

Yeah. So I think there's levels where it's just wiggles and I mean it's just like logical arrangements of things and not just maybe the Platonic space. I guess you can, you can think of it like that.

[Interviewer]

Can you explain the difference between. You don't have to for me, but the difference between 5 Meo DMT and DMT.

[Danny Goler]

Yeah.

[Narrator]

What the experience is like.

[Danny Goler]

Yeah, it's very, very, very, very different. The short answer is that, well, there's two different kinds. So the nndmt, which is nn stands for two nitrogens, five MEO stands for five methoxy with an oxygen with dmt. And they, they're both produced in our bodies to different amounts and in other living systems when you smoke each and every one of them, they shouldn't even share a name. They're like two different universes. Like why NNdMT is like Transformers from 3 million years in the future. 5 Meo is straight up like meeting God. It's just divinity. It's that vibe and by the way, that actually made me understand that there, there actually is a distinction to be made between saying, you know, sometimes people say, well, you know, you wouldn't even know the difference between a God and a very advanced civilization. I disagree. I think there's a big difference.

[Interviewer]

Really?

[Danny Goler]

Yes, there's a, there's a difference in their essence. So super advanced civilization can have the essence of divinity, but that quality, or at least that's what that would be. My take is not necessarily coming for the ride. You can have a super advanced civilization that will not feel divine. It wouldn't be evil, it just wouldn't be divine. Divinity is a very particular kind of quality. It's almost like the wholesomeness of reality. And I think you have to tap into that. If, if it's going to be animating you, propelling you forward. It is the, the pool of energy out of which you draw a particular kind of ideas will be. Set of ideas will be arising there and a different set of ideas will be arising. If you're playing the non divine game, so to speak. Now that, that it can sound a little confusing because descriptively it's very hard to pinpoint exactly what's different here. But when you're in the presence of it, you know, and by doing five meals and comparing it with NN many times, I realized there's a, there's a big difference here. Five feels divine. It's, it's like kind of the thing beyond which there is no nothing. Like it's. Oh, maybe there is, but it's, it feels like it's impossible to go beyond that state without being the totality of things. Basically.

[Interviewer]

Yeah. It's like full ego dissolution and you're part of the oneness. It's very strange. Yeah.

[Danny Goler]

But also the content even feels like it has this like light. This is like light. NN doesn't always feel like this. It feels more like kind of like technical, like very robotic. Yeah, yeah. So that's what I mean by that. It's tangible and more tangible. And I would, and, and, and yeah, and I would even say, I would go as far as to say that even though on NN you can sometimes have experiences that, you know, there is ego dissolution. Like you, you, you don't remember your, you, you don't remember you're a human, you don't remember what humans are. You're just some point of attention. But when you do five meo, you realize that's still not enough. Because when you do 5 Meo, if you look back at NN, you'll realize even when you had that state, when you were, like, not remembering what being a human is, there was still a point from which you were looking.

[Interviewer]

You're still observing.

[Narrator]

Yes.

[Danny Goler]

5 Meo, I don't know if it's possible to describe with words.

[Interviewer]

It's not.

[Danny Goler]

It doesn't. That central thing doesn't exist anymore.

[Interviewer]

It's not.

[Danny Goler]

There's just field. That's it. It's, like, completely diffused. There's no mapping of any kind. And yet sometimes there's also content. By the way, for me, I. Yeah,

[Interviewer]

I recommend people don't mess with five

[Danny Goler]

MEO without a facilitator.

[Interviewer]

Someone's got to be there.

[Danny Goler]

Yeah.

[Narrator]

Yeah.

[Interviewer]

Because it could be scary. I found it very scary. Yeah.

[Danny Goler]

Do you really have to let go? Yeah.

[Interviewer]

And it's hard for me to let go.

[Narrator]

Yeah.

[Danny Goler]

Yeah.

[Interviewer]

You believe in the divine?

[Danny Goler]

Yes. Well, it's interesting because the word belief is an interesting one. So I always say. I'm at this point, I'm still. I'm a secular person.

[Interviewer]

Okay.

[Danny Goler]

Which just means I believe that everything is knowable. It's just a matter of time and energy and whatever it is that you can live through. But I know there's a God, so I know because I saw it. Like I, you know, for all intents and purposes, again, nothing is unmovable. But in terms of how certain I am that there is an actual God, basically 100%.

[Interviewer]

Did you see Jesus?

[Danny Goler]

Yes, but that's not the God that I saw at the top, which is always very bothering to Christians, so.

[Interviewer]

Yeah, well, it's bothersome Christians. So God is not the top of

[Danny Goler]

the chain, not the biblical God, no. But for all intents and purposes, for fairness, at the same vision, I saw that as far as we're concerned, it might as well be.

[Interviewer]

So who's above God?

[Danny Goler]

There's some kind of. Again, it's going to sound super arbitrary, so I'm trying to. Yeah, I'll talk about it. But this probably. I keep saying it, but this probably will be the last podcast I mentioned, because I'll say why, just for a moment. I do find that that reaches outside of what I call the horizon of relevance. Beyond that point, it. There's more dissonance from this than coherence, and that's not necessarily a good thing. It bothers Christians for the obvious reasons, because that's blasphemy. If you postulate anything beyond Jesus as being our Lord and Savior into total scheme of things. That's blasphemy. End of story. You're not interacting with God. That's the perception. Right? I don't think that's, I think I'm saying from Christians. Right. That's the perception. So it disturbs them to no end. Right. Or at least they think of me as someone who's a heretic.

[Interviewer]

But I would tell them, no, no, no, God is still God.

[Danny Goler]

Yeah, yeah, sure.

[Interviewer]

He's. He's just representing.

[Danny Goler]

No, no, no. It's part of the, it's very radical in that sense. Like this. The one thing that is not touchable is that part which is like, if you don't, if you don't accept Jesus Christ as the Lord and Savior and the final arbitrary, you're going to hell, period. Like, that's basically the Christian belief.

[Additional Commentator]

So,

[Danny Goler]

but, and on the other hand, also, what the rest of it, what I saw, even to me as someone who, if you would ask me before, what I saw beyond that, and I will say, but like, I just want to preface it by saying that it doesn't make sense to me either because it's way too arbitrary. Again, it's like a caricature. It's like a Marvel comic book. Like, it just doesn't make any sense. It's too simplistic. But, hey, I mean, if it is what it is, then it is what it is. Like, I don't know what, you know, what else to do with it, but what I saw is that there's this enormous hierarchy, and at the top of it, for some strange reason, it's a woman. And no, she is not referred to in any of our folklores. Like, she doesn't exist in our folklore. No one has ever interacted with what she actually is conceptually.

[Interviewer]

So when they talk about the divine feminine, they're not talking about her.

[Danny Goler]

No, no. That's very terrestrial. Yes, yes. That's like here. That's like, like that's so it's outside. So, like, there's the mold again, reminding everybody. This is arbitrary for me, too. I'm aware of how, how silly this sounds.

[Interviewer]

It doesn't.

[Danny Goler]

Well, to me it does, because I, I, if you would ask me, like, what, what would I imagine the ultimate picture to be? It would be more along the lines of Buddhism, like, neutrality, Nirvana, just kind of like. And if I have to put an image to a God, which I wouldn't, but if I would, it would be like some kind of a infinite ball of light that contains all, you know, something like that. But no, it was clearly a female. It's like a woman. And, and. But the scale of it was. So basically it's. Our universe is within a multiverse. The multiverse is within a tri system. There's like a tri three ball system of something. And only one of them is the multiverse. And I don't even know what the other two were. And outside of all of that. So just that alone, the scales here, right, is where all the gods are. So no, we're not on the trajectory of becoming gods. We're not gods. It's not that kind of a thing. But we can be way more. Because we are made in the image of something much more. Right. And then I saw that basically I'm alone in this basement and I have VR glasses on. Obviously all this is like representation. And I have infinite screens in front of me. So basically you create these infinite realities for yourself. You're alone. There's no one else in your simulation. And I. Obviously this. This can't be just me. That's just, you know, solipsism, which is like silly. So clearly there's others, but they are there in their own simulation, right? And they're making their own little worlds. And everybody in your world are just representation, just a reflection, basically. But they are informed. But the real conscious being. So the. You getting a pretty dialed in interaction from what they would really do in real time. And from what I understood, that's designed that way for safety. But the system is learning what you're doing. So it doesn't matter what you do. It's not like you can just go and do whatever you want. I would not recommend this.

[Interviewer]

So the system's designed for safety from

[Danny Goler]

causing actual suffering to what you would consider the other. Until you're. Until you're ready to enter the ultimate love channel, which is a safe channel. And when you enter that channel, not like sexual infatuation, but like actual openness. Yeah, but just for the audience. If there's like a conflation here, the sandboxes of the different conscious individuals actually get closer to one another. So it's not a binary. It's not like you're either in it or not. It's a distance from. It's like how close I am to you, truly in the spiritual realm, so to speak. And I think everybody who lived long enough can appreciate that it actually feels different to truly be in the presence of someone truly. Like there's. It feels different. You really feel there. And it's almost like you can feel something now you can explain it away all you want with just like. Well, you're reading more micro expression. Sure. However it is that you have to frame it for yourself. It feels different to be sharing a certain mind space together and then all of a sudden everything just flows. You know, a lot of this conversation is this way. There's just this understanding that I feel from you through your questions. There's, there's also a real care. There's, there's like, there's this bubble that is created is different than just us speaking through the chasm of concepts.

[Interviewer]

Totally agree.

[Danny Goler]

Yeah. And that what I saw is basically ascension, is that when all beings of that species can enter that space and then they're all together actually. Right. And then I saw some again pretty arbitrary things, which is like it's all following the Mandelbrot set. Shoreline. Andres Gomez asked me, rightfully so, he said, why the Mandelbrot set? Because you know it from like memes. Like there's so many different fractals. No, not because I know it from memes. I have enough sophistication in that realm to understand that there's all of these other ones. That's what I was shown. That's what I have to follow. Now obviously you can say, well that's because the one thing you know best. So they should. Yeah, but that game is infinite.

[Interviewer]

Like why is it that particular fractal?

[Danny Goler]

I don't know. I think there's something about it. So I don't know enough about the actual differences between all the other major ones. But if I understand correctly, the metal rod set is kind of the map of all stable fractals. So you know, Julia sets and all the other ones. And what's interesting is that because it's, it's based on a very simple equation which most self iterated iterative ones are. But it's a very simple equations equation that basically gives rise to this infinitely complex, not large, but infinitely complex structure. So the fidelity of its stability is guaranteed within the very simple equation. So even though there's going to be probably some requirement for some error correction as worlds are actually built on top of it, it's going to be a lot easier because the structure itself, the fundamental baseline, is guaranteed to be stable by the definition of the logic of the equ and it never repeats itself. I don't know if how many people know this, but there's not one part of the Mandelbrot set that is the same. Not one. You know how the different again, I'm sure you Know, but I want to make it explicit for the audience. The Mandelbrot side is this shape with the, you know, looks kind of like a little beetle, right?

[Interviewer]

Yep.

[Danny Goler]

The little beetles that it's made out of, not one of them is the same. Not one. To infinity.

[Interviewer]

To infinity.

[Danny Goler]

That's crazy.

[Interviewer]

It's crazy.

[Danny Goler]

And that's part of what's called a strange attractor. One of the. It's the Lorenz attractor, which basically states that nothing ever repeats the same. That's interesting, because if you're looking for novelty, that's definitely the one you're going to pull. And if you're evolving into these spaces forever, you want to make sure that it's always stable, always evolving in ways that you yourself could not predict. Because the difference between the general logic of all of it in its totality existing in some infinite space, and the actual computation of it, which is the process by which you're actually going through it, are two different things. So when you're computing into it, you want to make sure that no matter where you're going to find yourself, you're safe for the fidelity of the system. And you want to make sure that you always discover new things that you've never seen before. So if you want to run the ultimate computation and see what is in store for the ultimate state of affairs, which is what they're doing, calculating the ultimate question, you will pick something like the Menelbrot set.

[Interviewer]

Yes, you would. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense.

[Danny Goler]

Yeah. And by the way, that I have a little thought that it actually is to me is very interesting. It to me sounds. Rings very true the closer you get to the edge. So if everything in the world follows the Mendelbrad set, which by the way, we know it does because we have literally like any chaotic system, from dripping faucets to, you know, the way the hearts work, like basically everything and even the.

[Additional Commentator]

The.

[Danny Goler]

The process in which populations grow. Everything, Right? Yeah.

[Interviewer]

I think Lorenz was studying weather.

[Danny Goler]

Weather. Yeah, everything. So basically, even the bifurcation at the Little Veritasium did a great episode on this. So if you. If that means that everything in the world, including the patterns and the information in our brains, will follow it, well, here's the deal. This would explain to me why the distance between madness and genius are so close. It's because the own, in order to be a true genius, you have to play in an informational space where it's right on the shoreline, where truly, truly, truly novel ideas can come. But because if you're too close to the shoreline. It becomes so chaotic and so unpredictable that one wrong step you up.

[Interviewer]

And that's why we all know very intelligent people that are weird. I definitely do. The smartest people I know cannot really function.

[Danny Goler]

Cantor is a perfect example of this created set theory. Everything has to do with infinities. Went mad, died in an insane asylum.

[Interviewer]

Yep.

[Danny Goler]

And we know it's correlated because it happened to him once he went in, he stopped, he recovered, went back. It's actually a very tragic story. And then went back, went back and this time died alone in there. It's a very sad story. But we, we really. The fact that some people are like this, we. We are very lucky to have had them because we. They created enormous theoretical frameworks that allow us to do a lot today.

[Interviewer]

I totally agree. Did you interact with Jesus?

[Danny Goler]

No, I didn't become a Christian because that was not a. It's not like Jesus came to me, which maybe is something I need to worry about. I'm not sure. But. But I saw him from the side. Like I saw him ascending. And essentially what I took from that is essentially there's a new dawn coming.

[Interviewer]

You saw him ascending, so you.

[Danny Goler]

Yeah, like he finishing his contract. So basically that whole thing, essentially what I saw, which then all of a sudden I had to.

[Interviewer]

The resurrection.

[Danny Goler]

Did you see? So, okay, so for me, I had to make sense of it. Right. So I want to frame this part of what I'm saying by saying I had to make sense of what I saw because it was like super arbitrary to me. I never grew up with the concept of Jesus. Yes, my grandmother was a Christian, but that was never part of my. I never cared understood. And neither did I care in a negative direction. I wasn't like reacting to Jesus or something. So why would I see that? Like I'm. If anything I should see the Buddha. That makes the most sense to me. Right. But they were very clear. They were like. They showed me the image of Jesus exactly how it's depicted in the Bible, which I took to be information because they could have said, you know, that thing you believe to be the Messiah. There's such a thing. But it's not what you think. That's not what was what I was shown. I was shown Jesus Christ as he's depicted. I thought that to be. Took that to be information. And at least to some degree, it opened the door for me to at least explore and at least listen to what Christians actually believe. Like, you know, obviously forthcoming Christians. Yeah. And not immediately branded as like, you Know some way in which people deal with reality. Right. So, like, if. If there's any reality to it, what Christians actually think, not what people tell me they think. What do they think when I ask them? Right. And I started talking to Christians, and what I discovered is that actually the story is much deeper than I realized.

[Interviewer]

Really?

[Danny Goler]

Yes. And the story, well, maybe you did know. Maybe you knew this, but I didn't. For example, that a lot of denominations believe that the cross was not what was done. The cross was the beginning of what was done. Yes, that was. So you knew it. I didn't. And that actually impacted me emotionally. So, like, if I am. If I allow myself to entertain even the maybe of it, I mean, that's wild.

[Interviewer]

Yes.

[Danny Goler]

The fact that he went through all of hell's for us, I mean, that's a different story. Right. And then.

[Interviewer]

No, when you really sit with the story, it's.

[Danny Goler]

It's crazy.

[Interviewer]

It's crazy.

[Danny Goler]

And then. And then the fact that basically it was done for us in an infinite love because it saw that God saw that there's no way we're gonna notice, go towards the worst possible outcome for us. So he basically bought our karma. He said, I'll strike a deal. I can handle it. In order to handle it, it wasn't enough for him to basically experience it as the unified God that he is, because then it doesn't count. Right. He had to go into a limited form so he can actually experience the suffering. Not just the torment, the psychological, the physical, all of it. That's crazy.

[Interviewer]

It's crazy.

[Danny Goler]

So then. So even the maybe of it is insane.

[Interviewer]

Who did God make the deal with? Right.

[Danny Goler]

Well, I saw that. That guy is also there.

[Interviewer]

You saw that guy?

[Danny Goler]

Yep.

[Interviewer]

Did that guy have a face?

[Danny Goler]

Kind of. But it's more kind of like the caricature folklore of what you imagine. Right. So, like. And it became clear to me also that things are not very, very straightforward in that regard. It's almost like he doesn't really need to do much. He just kind of lets things unfold in the way that they would and he can kind of steer it. But, like, ironically, again, this is, like, taking us very far afield. But there's some interesting nuances there that I saw that obviously don't depict them in any positive light. Obviously. But it's almost like, for example, there was like, this interesting thing there that he can't lie. Like what?

[Interviewer]

Yeah, he can't lie.

[Danny Goler]

Can't lie.

[Interviewer]

I think there's something to that.

[Danny Goler]

Yeah, yeah.

[Additional Commentator]

He.

[Danny Goler]

He can deceive he can't lie. So you know how sometimes. So, for example, you know how somebody gives you a. A riddle if you don't give me enough of the actual information to truly for me to figure out that's just a shitty riddle.

[Interviewer]

That's not fair.

[Danny Goler]

Right, right, right. But if it's clever, you don't lie.

[Interviewer]

You deceive.

[Danny Goler]

You deceive by. The information is there, but you have to be aware enough to notice it.

[Interviewer]

That's. That's right.

[Danny Goler]

That's how he operates. And if you're blind, that's on you. You can't belong in that place if you truly didn't know. But if it was there all along for you to notice and you didn't, you choose to not notice. That's how it works. That's part of the kind of like the ultimate state of affairs. And I found that to be profound and also pretty true. And to whatever degree that. That part, for the obvious reasons, you're like, okay, hold on here. Yeah, we have to think of some things. And then I realized that basically the way I explained it to myself is that essentially the, the ascension is basically Jesus basically handing us back the bill collectively. He's like, here's your karma back. You're good enough to handle it now, but you do it collectively. So you're not good enough to do it individually, but collectively you can hold each other in check. And that's where we're supposed to go. Now can we pull it off?

[Interviewer]

I don't. I hope so.

[Danny Goler]

I'm positive about it because I think that's the only way to actually steer there. That's not, you know, I'll. I'll do my best, but, like, that's all we can hope for, right? And. Yeah, so that. But that. Again, funny enough, it didn't make me a Christian. Again, I'm not even saying that to, to in any direction. Like, I don't know what to make of it. Like, maybe it's my stubbornness. Maybe it's like, maybe I should. Like, I don't know. But I. But it didn't. And to. For the time being, it feels correct. Like, I'm definitely still following the riddle. Like, I'm. I'm doing my best to notice what's there to be noticed. And I'm. I'm not like, obfuscating information for myself or lying to myself about something just because I don't want to do it. Like, as far as I'm aware in myself, I'm not doing that. But. But I also Saw, which is the. Obviously the part that really bothers Christians, which is like, there's a much bigger picture than that. But again, I also kind of saw that it might never be relevant to us. So it's almost like you. You might not even need to ever, like, worry about that.

[Interviewer]

I think that's probably true.

[Danny Goler]

Yeah.

[Interviewer]

Is you don't have to worry about that. That's what God's here for.

[Danny Goler]

Yeah. He's like, basically, it's your agent. I got you. Don't worry about that.

[Interviewer]

The riddle was very interesting because I've had plenty of experiences. One was, I just want to know how everything works. And they told me, it's too big for you. It's too big for your brain. But very often when I'm in that world, I get information that doesn't quite make sense. And I could feel the entity saying, if you don't get it, I can't do anything for you. It's all there for you to figure out. And I. Over and over again, it feels like the trickster. It's like it's right in front of you, dude. Just gotta figure it out. But I can't.

[Danny Goler]

You can only be judged on things you can discern and comprehend. To say, ha, ha, you did this wrong thing was like, I never knew it was a law. I never knew it was a rule.

[Interviewer]

Right?

[Danny Goler]

And then they can say, no, no, no, no, we know for a fact you could. You chose not to. That's different. But if you actually couldn't, then there's, you know, now why is it like this again? It's like super arbitrary, right? It's almost like. Because think of it from our perspective and I'm just thinking out loud, right? Like, if I'm imagining myself creating a world for any reason, and I'm allowing the. The beings in the. In the world to do. I think it's. I. I think it. I think I have a responsibility to create a world that doesn't just, pardon my friend, just fuck him over, you know, I mean, like, it. It's actually unethical of me to put them in the condition where, you know, which leads me to believe that if it is in fact the case, any of this, it must be some ramifications or just like the state of affairs that is just so. And there's really not much you can do about that. A certain limitation within which everything else operates. It just. It's just how it is.

[Narrator]

So then we're all having the same experience.

[Danny Goler]

Basically, yeah. So then. Then it makes sense ethically. Like if you can see from the highest perspective that things are just are that way and you don't know how to make them different. Maybe it's the fact that there's in like the same amount of yin and yang in the world. Like the same amount of darkness and light. So what is the most ethical thing to do? Try and distribute it evenly. Instead of like half of it experiencing the ultimate suffering and half of it, you know, the ultimate bliss. How do you communicate that? Hey, we all should carry as much of it as we can so nobody has to experience kind of like the ultimate. Like that's the most ethical decision that can be sure collectively. So if you're on top of all of this and you see all of this, then all of a sudden it makes more sense. Hey, it's just how it is. I want everybody to have the best time possible possible. Let's try and play a game a certain way. So we all kind of stay within the which again within the purview of even in the metal brought set in this infinite. Because what's outside of the metal br set just infinite.

[Interviewer]

Right.

[Danny Goler]

K Like nothing is predictable. Everything is. Can be anything in the.

[Interviewer]

Like I can't really comprehend what.

[Danny Goler]

Yeah, yeah. So. So maybe there's only so many different ways to keep coherence. And that's essentially what the. The. The.

[Interviewer]

The.

[Danny Goler]

The light path is which is like kind of stay. It's almost like the lack of awareness of God. That is really what hell is. It's like you just. Because anything can be right and there's this real. It's almost like the default. So it's not like either or the default is really where you're going to end up if you don't pay attention.

[Interviewer]

And the default because he. He's not really doing anything. He's just kind of letting it unfold.

[Danny Goler]

It's basically everything.

[Interviewer]

So that means whatever the program is is programmed to be pretty dark.

[Danny Goler]

It's not even. No. So maybe what's. So the thing that I saw which was kind of like the ultimate. What should we call it kind of like that, you know, ultimate kibosh. Like this like thing that the top which is that basically what it's all for is to formulate a. The ripe condition for the ultimate choice. So basically you have. In the beginning was the word. In the end is the choice. The ultimate choice. The ultimate choice is when it's literally all said and done. Literally like there's nothing that can happen again that didn't happen before. And if you think yeah but what if. Yeah, you're not thinking about the state we're describing. Everything was done, Everything. Now, any other step you're going to take, by definition, will be a replication of something that happened.

[Interviewer]

Yep.

[Danny Goler]

Then what do you choose? And in that moment, basically what I saw is that there's this final black box that contains the actual answer. The one thing that no one in existence knows is why. Nobody knows why. Like, you saw the box, it's in that box. So basically, right now, while it's still happening, the answer doesn't exist, or the question, or whatever it is.

[Interviewer]

Right.

[Danny Goler]

No one actually knows that information doesn't exist in existence. Right. It's the ultimate umbilical cord, which, if you think about it for two seconds, actually makes perfect sense. Because aside from you just kind of in by fiat declaring that, God knows, if you think about it for two seconds, any amount of knowledge you can embody, you can always ask, but why that? So it's almost. There's no way, because you have to be outside of what is which. What does that even mean? So basically what I saw is that that the reason everything is happening is because it's formulating that black box with the answer or the question. And what is that for? Because at the same time, what is being practiced through all the simulation is the attitude of letting go, which is much more kind of like the Eastern attitude. And then at the end of everything,

[Interviewer]

you think we're running multiple simulations over and over.

[Danny Goler]

There's two main games, okay. One coming up with the actual true answer or question.

[Interviewer]

Yep.

[Danny Goler]

And the other one is the practice of just letting go of it. But it only matters if you can, in fact, let go of it, not the concept of it. If I ask Ken, do you think that if the time comes, you will let go of it? You saying, yeah, I think so, doesn't mean anything because it's not there.

[Interviewer]

Right.

[Danny Goler]

But only when the money's on the table. If that's why the answer has to be the real one, it has to be guaranteed to be the holy answer or the question. And then God gets to make the ultimate choice, which is like, does he open that box or not?

[Interviewer]

This is the finite against the final moment.

[Danny Goler]

And you don't. And the thing is, it is the final of finals because the second you open it, you don't know what's in it. You don't know if you really don't want to know that or you really did, or can you just let it go? Can you just be forever if you're there Forever. And you can do anything. Nothing means anything. Everything's kind of pointless, which is what a lot of people experience sometimes when they go to 5 Meo and it's this like infinite loneliness because you're just alone and you understand there's nothing outside of you. And it's like that's essentially what the predicament that, you know, the ultimate God is. And so it. It broke itself or she broke herself into infinite pieces that don't remember necessarily all the time. And they're playing both of these games because the only two games that make sense is figure out what it is that the one thing you don't know, because it's kind of interesting, but also see if you can actually practice of just letting go of it and just be forever. Just like. Because that's what monks do, it's not forever for them, but for longer and longer periods. They practice to be in complete bliss without any. Anything. The reaching is the problem. The reaching is the suffering, according to the Buddha. So Nirvana would be basically the unitary field, making the choice to just let go of the whole thing. And then it kind of opens this. The one thing that I did see that was kind of. I'm. I have to be honest here. I was convinced for a long time that I saw it in the same kind of vision. Saw it, I saw all of this. Yeah, this was shown to me. So now, but. But I'm. But I'm. That last part that I'm about to say, I actually don't recall, so I have to be honest about this. It might have been, but I actually don't recall if I've added it after, because it's very easy to do because you are in just like a very kind of, you know, very, very altered state.

[Interviewer]

Yep.

[Danny Goler]

But what I. What made either. Either what made sense to me or something that was actually shown to me was if the box is opened, what happened? And this is why the choice is so dramatic is because if you let go, you can just be with everything that you already know and exists. You can just be in peace. And whatever it is, but if you open it creates a state. So the ultimate object, so the ultimate God, would be. If it would be perfect. You know, in a perfect sphere, every single point in the sphere points exactly. Exactly on the opposite side of it. Exactly. That's the definition of. But that's the definition of a perfect object or a shape. If it's the ultimate thing, it must contain all the opposites of itself. So it will not occur. It actually cancels itself Out. This is why God can't be perfect. It will be almost perfect. It will be one piece missing. Just like in that game with the nine numbers. You have to have one missing to move them. Right. So the only reason that anything occurs is. Is because there's this one piece that is missing from God being perfect, which is that piece of knowledge of why. But the second that happens, when that piece goes back and got in that picosecond or zeptosecond, whatever it is that God just knows, imagine what that must be like. You're now locked forever with that knowing. It's just you and that knowing, but also it becomes perfect and therefore it doesn't just cease to exist, but ceases from ever being existed.

[Interviewer]

This is very DMT conversation.

[Danny Goler]

Yeah, yeah. It's almost like it cancels everything out. And I don't know if you noticed, but it sounds like you're pretty experienced with these. There's always this almost like a zany ramping up towards something. It's almost like a. And they're all kind of waiting for you to like. And it becomes more and more serious and you're like, what's going on? And so what I saw that at the end of this, this ramping, this crescendo, that's what happens. It's this ultimate like just.

[Interviewer]

Do you think that this is predetermined? How does free will work its way into that?

[Danny Goler]

Yeah, so that's exactly the thing that you. Wow, you asked the exact right question. Whatever. Free will is the only place it can be. So it actually doesn't exist exist in the way that we think of it. The only place we can be is in that one blind spot.

[Interviewer]

That's where free will lives.

[Danny Goler]

Free will. The ultimate fractal of free will is the freedom of the will of existence to come into being versus not to be. So that is where it's at. And nobody knows what that is. So your question predetermined. No. The reason it's the ultimate choice is because it's the one time in the existence of existence that an actual free choice will be pra. Will be executed. That's the only time.

[Interviewer]

Is it executed by one unique consciousness or.

[Danny Goler]

I think it's going to be the unitary. And I think what might be happening is that maybe this is already kind of becoming like super, you know.

[Interviewer]

No, it's fun.

[Danny Goler]

Yeah, but. But basically it might. What might be happening is that they might be creating AGIs to go through a similar moments and we're one of them. So basically it's, it's. You train a bunch of AGIs and you put them through alignment problems and all of that. And if they pass, you can put them to the next level and the next level and they essentially all together either conspire to have that moment together or they're a practice of how to have that moment perfectly because you can't mess that up. There's only. There's only one of those literally ever. So it's the one moment where you have to become. So God has to become so still and he has to align himself with the ultimate umbilical cord and basically execute that one ultimate choice, whatever that is, and just kind of surrender to it fully.

[Interviewer]

But it still sounds like that choice is. Comes from the deeper consciousness.

[Danny Goler]

But no one can. No one can ever tell because it's actually computationally reducible. The moment has to happen. So you actually. No one knows, including God himself or herself, if they will open the box or not. Like they actually don't know until the moment comes.

[Interviewer]

That's a computer science theory that you have to run the program to see what happens.

[Danny Goler]

Describing computational. When I'm saying computationally irreducible, it's a computer science term to say it. But the ultimate moment is a lot more dramatic than a computer doing a thing.

[Interviewer]

It is, but. Yeah, but it's. It's interesting that you don't think it's predetermined that we have to.

[Danny Goler]

It can't be. If it would be predetermined, it would be point pointless. It's like, yeah, that's true. Yep.

[Interviewer]

Who's running it then? Is. Is it God running it or God?

[Danny Goler]

No, no. We're talking about a level that is outside of reality itself. It's almost like it's, it's. This is why you see horizon of relevance. Like aside from having like a really interesting philosophical discussion about this. And that's what I took from it, by the way. Even though I'm still like enjoying once in a while revisiting the idea itself because it's so explosive. I took from it to be basically like them saying, if you really want to know, you can. But what are you going to do with this? Like just. That's just live your life, basically.

[Interviewer]

That feels very familiar.

[Danny Goler]

Yeah.

[Interviewer]

Is we'll tell you. But you don't really need to know any of this.

[Danny Goler]

What's for. And basically the only way, I guess I was maybe stubborn enough, in which they're like, well let me show you then. And then you tell me if you think you can do something with it. Which I'm still kind of like in this crazy deliberation with. With the. The totality of things. Can't you open it and also, like, open it at the same time?

[Interviewer]

I don't think so.

[Danny Goler]

Isn't there some quantum position? They're like. Nope.

[Interviewer]

No.

[Danny Goler]

Yep. No way around that.

[Interviewer]

Where do the Insectoids fit into this?

[Danny Goler]

They're more like a management company, which I'm always at the. At the.

[Interviewer]

Are they in our level?

[Danny Goler]

No, no, no. They're way. They're simulating the universe. So they're way above our level. Simulating the universe and probably a few others. Okay, so this is the scales when we're talking about the beings that I saw. Like gods, they're way more than that. That's like levels and levels are above gods. No, no, no, no. Well, this is why I'm being careful. Because to some degree, it's still not fully clear to me if all of this is a formulation within their simulation or are they just a management company within a smaller system delivering the, I guess the commands that God kind of dictates. Like the Architect actually commands them and then they do it. Yeah. I'm not sure. But currently it looks like they are more management company. And where you go with five MEO is more like, you know, actual the Architect. But again, I'm being super careful because I definitely don't want to, like, upset anyone. So hopefully I'm doing my best to. To, to get it right. But I'm not sure we could just speculating. We're just sure.

[Narrator]

We're not saying this is what it is.

[Danny Goler]

You know, some. Some beings can be very moody, but that's true. Yeah.

[Interviewer]

Have you ever been locked out?

[Danny Goler]

That never happened to me.

[Interviewer]

No. With all your experiences, never locked down?

[Danny Goler]

No, I can say that maybe a few times in which, like, I had to do more.

[Interviewer]

I never heard of that until Andrew brought it up. Kind of blew my mind that that's even a thing.

[Danny Goler]

Yeah. It was known in the community.

[Interviewer]

Was it?

[Danny Goler]

This happened? Yeah, yeah. When I was on Danny Jones with Zoltan together, Zoltan brought it up because it happened to him one time and he said, oh, there must be hundreds of cases, because in. In our little, you know, psychonaut community kind of a lot of people know each other. And when we pulled it up on the computer, there was almost no reports of this. Like, no, it was like, that's strange. We kind of know about a lot of them. And then after Chase Hughes spoke about it, all of a sudden that Clip went viral.

[Interviewer]

Yeah.

[Danny Goler]

And all of a sudden, boom. Everybody talking about, obviously. So it's like, you know, it became like a much more known thing.

[Interviewer]

I think that's where I first heard it was.

[Danny Goler]

It's fascinating. It also tells you that there's something going on. Yes, just that by itself.

[Interviewer]

By the way, did you do DMT X?

[Danny Goler]

Yeah, I actually. As far as I know. And this is just like a fun little surprise. When we did the first big one, when we did like, did like a shoot for the film, if I'm not mistaken, I'm still holding the world record, basically. So I did five hours with 464 milligrams. That's. I think Chase after that went after me. I think he did like four plus hours. I don't know how many milligrams he did. I think a little bit less. We weren't trying to break a record or anything. One day, if we really feel, you know, called to it, maybe we'll try and actually, like make like a real record. And I have to design this one because I can stay there indefinitely. I can't. No, I really can. I was like, I really enjoy it. But the reality of it is that I don't even think it's that hard. I think that some people really enjoy that. Chase was one of them. I don't think. If you're enjoying yourself, just sustain your body and you'll be fine. Like, you know, you. You can just enjoy yourself for hours and hours and hours. Maybe days.

[Interviewer]

How different was the experience?

[Danny Goler]

It's a lot more pleasant. It's actually.

[Narrator]

Yeah, that's what I hear.

[Danny Goler]

Yeah. And it's also a lot. It's a lot less ampy when you smoke it. There's this like. Like a boom.

[Interviewer]

Yes.

[Danny Goler]

Yeah.

[Interviewer]

It's the jolt.

[Danny Goler]

Yeah, it's the jolt. Wow, really good word. The jolt. Doesn't happen. It's more like a hockey stick. It's still exponential.

[Interviewer]

I didn't know.

[Danny Goler]

But it kind of goes like a. Very smooth. And you can control it. You can ask, you know, we're doing it with Kevin and Haley in Colorado, and you can just always ask them to lower it. If people are interested in like the super legal thing, then you can also go to probably Andrew spoke to you about this and loses the St. Vincent's paradise. Beautiful. Great crew. More expensive.

[Narrator]

Expensive.

[Danny Goler]

But if you can afford it, it's worth it. For sure. Great people. We went there. We did this with Carter as well. Shout out to Charles and Christina who, you know, invited us and. But yeah, but there are cheaper ways and they're worth it. If you really want to explore it,

[Interviewer]

There are cheaper ways. We're not going to discuss those. Yeah, there are other ways.

[Danny Goler]

No, like even in Colorado, because it's decriminalized. It is decriminalized. So it's not a criminal offense.

[Interviewer]

That's true.

[Danny Goler]

Yeah. Yeah. So it's a misdemeanor. You. Nobody. They actually had two CIA agents do it. I think three. And I think Kevin said the two of them told them, we know what you're doing. We don't care, though.

[Interviewer]

Like, I bet the CIA has done a lot of dmt. Oh, yes.

[Danny Goler]

Oh, yeah.

[Interviewer]

I bet they've been in there a long time.

[Danny Goler]

Yeah, I've done that. Have you ever done the gateway extended? No, the gateway takes gateway process.

[Interviewer]

I try to keep falling asleep,

[Danny Goler]

you know. Did you try it? Yeah. A similar thing happened to me, but then I learned how to kind of stay somewhat awake. I'm very similar to you. And I noticed that there was definitely changes, like. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I started feeling. There was one case that was really outstanding. I put my head next to my wife's like this, head to head. The second I touched her head, I felt this headache, but I knew it wasn't mine, but I could feel it. I was like, do you have a sharp headache right here? She's like, yes.

[Interviewer]

Wow.

[Danny Goler]

It was crazy. Like, I could feel her headache. So there's definitely something there.

[Interviewer]

It's supposed to unlock whatever's down there. Do you believe in the universal consciousness and we're all just.

[Danny Goler]

Yeah.

[Interviewer]

Micro projections of it?

[Danny Goler]

Oh, yeah, Yeah. I think. I think consciousness is fundamental. There's no. I. I don't think you can. I don't think you can responsibly describe the world without consciousness coming first. That just doesn't make any sense.

[Interviewer]

I think so, too. I've heard you talk about Bernardo Castro quite a bit.

[Danny Goler]

Great. There's one thing that I always want to ask him that I don't understand why he's so insistent on it, which is that he thinks it's substrate dependent, which is strange. He only thinks it can be kind of instantiated. Instantiated in a physical matter. But other than that, I think he's probably the best. The best outliner of the.

[Narrator]

He thinks it's substrate dependent.

[Danny Goler]

Yeah. He always gives this. Again, it's very confusing because without a doubt, Bernardo is one of the smartest people on the planet.

[Interviewer]

I thought he believed the physical comes out of the consciousness.

[Danny Goler]

He says things like. Which is why that example is so I would love to ask him one day. But, like, and I don't mean it disrespectfully, I just truly find it like a silly example. The example he gives is like, well, if I simulate your bladder on my computer, my computer is not going to pee. That's literally a thing he says. I'm like, what is that going to do with anything? But the computer is a different substrate. So, like, if you simulate a whole body on the computer, then the person in the simulation will pee.

[Interviewer]

Sure.

[Danny Goler]

Why are you. What is this translation? So I guess maybe that's what he means by it's not translatable from one substrate to another. But it's not the same as saying you need matter to make consciousness. That unless he assumes that matter is the final kind of thing, that that is what consciousness is. I'm not sure. But I would love to ask him one day.

[Interviewer]

I wish he would do some podcasts one day.

[Danny Goler]

I really hope that we'll meet. But I. I consumed basically everything he has to offer and, yeah, definitely one of the more important people in. In that world, in that thought realm. Super eloquent. Very, very clear on what he's saying. Best outlines of why free will is really not a thing they can even be.

[Interviewer]

That's right. He doesn't believe in free will. And the projections. He believes that there's some will down below.

[Danny Goler]

Well, it's the only. That's, like I said, is the only place that can be.

[Interviewer]

That's kind of what I was thinking when you were talking about.

[Danny Goler]

Yeah, it's the same.

[Interviewer]

The box.

[Danny Goler]

Well, it's. It. I actually, for a long time struggled as to how people can see that. That it's not a coherent idea. But then I realized that maybe what people mean by that is not really what let's say I mean by that or what I think ought to be meant by that. Because words mean things. Right. So if you're saying free will, what I think is implied is that you think that you're somehow free of the immediate moment and somehow you float free of it and then you make the choice in this some kind of vacuum of something, it must be what people mean by this. Right. I'm different than whatever just being pushed around.

[Narrator]

Right.

[Danny Goler]

But then. And maybe if the. If the idea is more like, there's more freedom of operation because there's more degrees of freedom. That's true, because the brain is a much more advanced system, but in the end is just a more complex system of, like, things pushing each Other like, right. So the conscious part of it, which is the feeling that we have that we're we, which is different than just what the neurons are doing, right? Somehow that is postulated to have the. That freedom. And also the word will is interesting because what you're saying is that you're kind of willing it to be right. There's some. There's almost like a just magical quality of just kind of like, I'm willing it. Both of them don't track even the first step of observation, because you obviously, whatever brought you here is responsible for what's going to happen next, right? So, like, it's. It's always you always within the sets of dominoes falling. You're never outside of that sets of dominoes falling. You can't. You can't. The reason it's an incoherent concept is because you can't describe a situation that is logically consistent in which somehow all the dominoes are falling. But when it comes to this one domino, the domino stops everything. Almost one second, I'll think, because then what is that internal process of that one domino? It's infinite regress. Where is the end of that? The answer is the beginning of everything, right? That's the one hole in the donut that connects between what we experience as a choice that isn't really chosen by us, but yet feels like. It feels like a choice only when you retroactively fit a story onto it later.

[Interviewer]

Right? Man can do what he wills, but he can't will.

[Danny Goler]

Exactly. How can you know your next thought if you haven't thought it?

[Interviewer]

Right?

[Danny Goler]

So ultimately, you have to bring it back to the ultimate first moment, which is Bernardo's point, but with a caveat, which is that he says that you can say that the universal mind has this kind of like freedom of will with the one caveat that it is free to choose that. That it is ought to choose because of what it is. Because if it's the totality of things, it is all the things. Therefore, it has a state that dictates what the next state is, and it can experience it as a choice. But how free are you if you have to do that thing because of what you are? And if you're saying, yeah, but what if there's other things influencing it? What other things? Because we're talking about the ultimate. Because if you said other things, you're no longer referring to the ultimate, you're now referring to something that is within something else. And that's not the ultimate.

[Interviewer]

Sometimes I forget that we're doing a show right now.

[Danny Goler]

Yeah, yeah.

[Interviewer]

Thinking about so much stuff. Kastrup's theory kind of explains why randomness isn't a thing.

[Danny Goler]

Well, it just doesn't solve it. It doesn't solve it.

[Narrator]

Right?

[Danny Goler]

Yeah. Because randomness is the opposite of free will.

[Interviewer]

Right.

[Danny Goler]

It's not targeted. It's just random. And also randomness can't be.

[Interviewer]

Because there's no true randomness.

[Danny Goler]

Because if it's the totality of things, it is guaranteed to be the ultimate set of everything that is possible. And if you're saying random, well, then that means something is outside of the scope of that. And there. Therefore, now it is the ultimate. Now that is the ultimate, you know, horizon of relevance, man. Like, it's true. It's true.

[Interviewer]

You once said that 99% of your audience would disagree with what you actually believe. They came for the Matrix and you're

[Danny Goler]

quietly handing them metaphysics, quietly handing them the present moment.

[Interviewer]

That's what you're doing.

[Danny Goler]

Yeah.

[Interviewer]

Present moment, yeah.

[Danny Goler]

It's the only thing that ever matters and never will.

[Interviewer]

Are people disappointed sometimes because they just

[Narrator]

want to talk about the laser?

[Danny Goler]

They just want magic.

[Interviewer]

They want magic, they want the Matrix,

[Danny Goler]

but the magic is right here. And then, and then the Matrix and everything else becomes even more profound because everything that is experienced truly through the present moment is always more profound. It truly is. There's an expansive quality to it that you can't communicate with words because the logical trace can't really follow there.

[Interviewer]

I want to close with, with one thing, and I think you're going to nail. You're going to nail it. When we talk about lack of free will, that's usually very nihilistic. It's usually very dark. If there's no free will, nothing matters. Life doesn't matter. But you have a different take on that.

[Danny Goler]

Yeah, it's the opposite of that. The idea that because you don't have the ultimate say in things, which is what free will postulated to be is the ultimate prison, not the ultimate freedom. Just like we said with the AI If I put you in a situation where nothing is and you have to make a choice, that is the hardest position to be in because you literally bringing it out of nowhere, which is almost impossible. The freedom is in the. In the understanding that you are the space in which all of this is unfolding. You're literally the totality of things where you are. And that to me, both connects you to the ultimate and also frees you to just have fun because you don't need to worry about the ultimate state of affairs. You can just enjoy this to its ultimate degree through actually acknowledging that that's the case. Being pushed around as the universe, it's kind of fun. The state of flow is a lot of fun when in fact, you're in it because you're surfing. There's a. There's a. There's an elation there. So you actually. The irony is that you gain the ability to experience actual magic, like actual magic in real time when you get a wink from the universe. There's nothing more satisfying than this. So I think that if people are just willing for one moment to drop their need to, you know, to be this final, arbitrary. In order to feel salvation and realize that that's an arbitrary choice they're making to put their salvation there. If I don't have free will, what is it all for? This. Do you feel good right now? Because if not, I understand why you're trying to escape it. But there are ways to truly drop into the present moment where everything opens up. You literally being handed everything. And I will be honest, it sounds like a vacuous promise if somebody has never experienced it. But this is why within the. Within the crazy pyrotechnics that people can experience on psychedelics, the thing that I would encourage anyone to notice if they are doing that is not the pyrotechnics, but how it can feel when you're freed from the constraints of needing to make decisions or what you imagine making decisions. See how that feels in your body. There's a. You can breathe.

[Interviewer]

You'll feel true compassion.

[Danny Goler]

True compassion, true freedom. That's the freedom. And then you don't need things to be this or that. They can be anything and you will enjoy them just as much. And you can experience hardships in life and everything else, but it will never have the same dire nature, the nihilistic nature that you might experience, because it's the mind trying to tell you what must be for you to be free, when in reality you already are.

[Interviewer]

That's the way to land the plane. Where can they find you?

[Danny Goler]

Dango thoughts is my YouTube channel. D a n g o thoughts. Dannygoller.com is all my links, our retreats. Highly recommend to check it out corretreat.com and go to reality.org if people want to check out everything with our nonprofit Danny Goler.

[Interviewer]

This has been a joy.

[Danny Goler]

Thank you so much.

[Interviewer]

Bye, everybody.

[Narrator]

That was Danny Golar. We covered the laser, the simulation, his cosmology. Free will. Let me try to make some sense of it if I can. Here's what holds up. Danny isn't making his life up. American Ninja Warrior contestant. Born in Moscow, raised in Israel. The Vipassana. He crossed credits for Everything is real. A 10 day retreat where you sit in total silence and observe your thoughts without judgment. And he corrected me on his own credentials. IPI letters, he said, is a newsletter, not peer review. And I trust the guy who downgrades his own resume. Now the bigger claims. Danny says reality is computational rendered, not fake. Then physicist Melvin Bopson at the University of Portsmouth published a 2023 paper and AIT Advances. He calls it the second law of information in physical systems compresses and optimizes over time. That's not what you'd expect to happen in reality, but that's what you'd expect if the universe were running on a computer. That's your real paper. It's peer reviewed. It's not accepted science. Most physicists disagree. It's just theory. But it's interesting. Danny says mushrooms are raced as OCD. Now, a 2006 study at the University of Arizona gave psilocybin to nine people with severe OCD and cut their symptoms by up to 100%. The one thing I couldn't verify is the code itself, the symbols. Thousands of strangers seeing the same symbols in the same spots. There's no published data yet. Danny is really the first to say so. And I have experience with the molecule and I never seen anything like that. But I never looked into a laser. Why would you? Before the laser, Danny was on DMT and a being that looked like a frog showed him chords on a guitar. Chords? He said he didn't know how to play and that he did. Now if it happened, that information came from outside of his own mind. If he didn't, the most important moment of his life was a misfire on a drum. He can't prove it, I can't disprove it, but I'll take his word for it. And he built 10 years of work on it and he tells the the story the same way every time. Now here's my take. On the surface, Danny's just another psychedelics guy with a retreat and a non profit. But that's not what he's doing. He's taking the most subjective experience a person can have and building an experiment that could prove him wrong. He keeps saying the truth always wins and I believe him. A man selling you a belief system doesn't invite you to debunk him. Danny says bring on the truth and he'll Accept it. I take him at his word. You can find him on YouTube @DangotHoughts. That's D A N G O Thoughts. Dango thoughts. His retreats and his non profit code of reality are all on dannygoller.com and I'm thinking about trying it. That's Goler. G O L E R. Links are down below. Now if the simulation is something that fascinates you, like me, I broke it all down on my episode we live in a simulation. I included the science there as well.

[Interviewer]

It's a lot of fun.

[Narrator]

Until next time, be safe, be kind. Know that you are appreciated. Do you have any cats in here? Come on buddy, try that.

[Additional Commentator]

I played Polypius in Area 51 a secret code inside the Bible said I

[Interviewer]

was

[Additional Commentator]

I love my UFOs and paranormal fun as well as music song singing like I should but then another conspiracy theory becomes the truth my friends and it never ends no, it never ends. I feel the crap cat and got stuck inside mel's home with mk ultra of being only 2 aware did Stanley Kubrick fake the moon landing alone on a film set that were the shadow people there the Roswell aliens just f the smiling man I'm told and his name was cold But I can't believe I'm dancing with the fishes Head to fish on Thursday nights with AJ all through the night All I ever wanted was to just hear the truth all through the night. The math man sightings and the solar storm still come to Agatha the secret city underground Mysterious number stations Planet Circle 2 Project Stargate and what the dark watchers found in a simulation don't you worry though the Black Knight's at a lighter tone Missile oh I can't believe I'm dancing with the fish head we'll fish on Thursday night swing they J2 and W on through the night all ever wanted was to just hear the troops of wish On Thursday night When they change you and weapons. Loves to dance yeah GE love to dance on the dance floor because she is a camel and camels love to dance when the feeling is right Always in time.