If consciousness is the source code of reality, what happens when we learn to access it? Can that awareness change how we treat each other, navigate hardships, and move through life’s challenges?
In this live Substack session, Mayim and Jonathan revisit their conversation with cognitive scientist Dr. Donald Hoffman, whose mathematical models suggest that space, time, and matter aren’t fundamental reality but an interface shaped by consciousness.
Together, they and the Breaker community explore what this means for everyday life—how perception creates what they call “real,” and how seeing beyond that perception can open the door to greater compassion, perspective, and peace.
Mayim and Jonathan unpack how modern physics is beginning to confirm what many spiritual traditions have long intuited: that consciousness could be the foundation of everything we experience.
They explore how Hoffman’s headset metaphor reframes reality and reveals that what we see isn’t the world itself but a filtered projection designed for survival. When we understand this, our emotions, reactions, and even our suffering begin to look different.
Jonathan shares how realizing he’s not the emotion but the one witnessing it creates space for awareness. That shift transforms reactivity into response—a change that reduces anxiety, quiets the nervous system, and increases our capacity for creative problem-solving.
Mayim adds that awe and humility naturally arise when we recognize how vast and unknowable reality truly is. From that perspective, compassion stops being a moral effort and becomes a physiological response, an expression of unity itself
Drawing from Internal Family Systems therapy, Jonathan describes how parts of us often live across different timelines, stuck in younger emotional states or unhealed experiences. When those parts are triggered, we react from the past rather than the present.
By becoming conscious of these timelines, we begin to integrate those parts. This mirrors what physics knows about time: it isn’t linear. The brain is constantly predicting the future based on memories of the past. When we change how we interpret those memories, we reshape our perception of the present and, in a real sense, influence what comes next.
These insights reveal that awareness doesn’t just change the way we think. It rewires the brain, and the body.
While exploring consciousness can open extraordinary awareness, Mayim and Jonathan emphasize the importance of embodiment. When spiritual insight outpaces integration, the result can be dissociation or overwhelm.
The antidote is to ground: feeling the earth beneath your feet, naming what you can see and touch, breathing into the moment.
These practices help us integrate expanded awareness so it becomes a lived experience rather than abstract insight.
