My 7 Days with Joe Dispenza (w/Brendan Fitzgibbons)

Fresh off a chill coyote encounter, Brendan films this solo episode to talk about his life-changing experience at the week-long Joe Dispenza Advance Retreat in Dallas. 

With a very special appearance by Willoughby, he goes all in about: 

• What 7-days of meditating does to your body. 
• The neuroscience behind how you brain creates reality. 
• Brendan's incredible accounts of witnessing healings. 
• Why we DON'T have to live in stress ALL THE TIME! 
• And why if you can feel this good in Dallas, you can feel good anywhere. 

RESOURCES
Brendan Fitzgibbons
Brain Bits: Your Brain and How Much It Filters Out
Joe Dispenza

Transcript

Welcome to a brand new episode of Spiritual Asshole. Okay, these headphones aren't even plugged in. I'm Brendan Fitzgibbons. Welcome. Thank you so much for being here. This is a very special episode on a very special day, and I have my walking stick with me 'cause I just got done hiking and I saw a very confident coyote and there's nothing more scary than a coyote with a complete sense of peace.

It was very close to him and I was like, his dog's pretty chill. Plus, I have my dog, he's here. Will it be, come here.

Ho. Yeah, baby. Oh, he's coming. Correct. That was perfect. Oh, he just trashed my computer.

Okay guys. Oh, you just took the stick. That was amazing. Today I wanted to look at you and talk to you because I just got done spending seven days with Dr. Joe Dispenza at a seven day re advanced retreat in Dallas, Texas. [00:01:00] There are some experiences in life that you don't really have words for because there are no words that can even sum it up.

I would say riding a rollercoaster, having sex. The first time you have a double stuffed Oreo, the first time you see somebody spin on their back on a dance floor at a wedding, you're like, I didn't know this was possible. This is. Uh, I would say beyond all of those experiences, so I'm gonna tell you my experience with the hopes of not trying to get you to go, or not even trying to get you to get into Joe Dispenza.

I don't actually care if you do or you don't, but what I do want from this episode is for you to realize as always, you're so much more than you can even begin to imagine. And it's one thing to hear this. It's a one thing to see all the tiktoks and all the 21-year-old Manifestors on TikTok telling you how to live.

It's a whole nother thing to feel it on a deep somatic level. So lemme back [00:02:00] up. Just quickly, quick recap. I got really into Dispenza. I've heard his name for 12 years and I always resisted it. I hated his Frankenstein voice. I hated that. It sounded like he was being electrocuted as he talked. Plus, I was doing a meditation recently where someone was like, oh, I didn't know Joe Dispenza was the guy from the B 50 twos.

Love Shaq. Bang, bang, baby. Then in February of this year, I just decided to go all in after watching about 40 videos of testimonials, including people both on his website and people off his website or off his YouTube. People who had no affiliation with him whatsoever, talk about how the work actually transformed them.

And with a great help from my friend Kristen Homesteader, I decided to go all in. So in February of this year, I was meditating about 40 minutes in the morning doing his meditation. And there was, I started to feel [00:03:00] changes in my body, like actual changes. A Saturday morning I had, I did a dispen of meditation and I felt this like.

My whole system lighting up and I felt, I go, oh, something wild's gonna happen today. What I said was, universe, I'm excited for you to show me what that thing is. So called my friend Natasha and she's like, Hey, come have dinner with me. We're gonna celebrate my dad's. Uh, it's his birthday, so we always go out to eat, but first we're go see this movie.

And I was like, I don't wanna see this movie. I like your dad, but I love your dad, but I don't wanna see this movie and. So I skipped the movie. She's like, cool, I'll call you after the movie and we'll meet for dinner. I was like, great. So that morning I do the meditation, I go hiking. I'm listening to Becoming Supernatural on my phone.

And so later on after they get outta the movie, Natasha calls me and she's like, okay, so we're gonna go to this restaurant. And then, and I was like, what? What? And she's like, oh my God. [00:04:00] That's Joe Dispenza. She's like, what should I do? And I was like, touch him, feel him, feel him, touch him. Just to recap, my best friend, who I was supposed to be with that day, walked right into him.

So she talked to him. He was really nice. I go, okay, I am on the right track. So I go to the Progressive workshop in LA about a month later. I have a really good experience. I meet a great, my new great friend, Lisa, and then I come back and I kind of start getting back into some old shit, and I was like, oh God, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

One of the things that happens when you get into this work, and as somebody who's done psychedelics, it's like one of the things that you have to grapple with or integrate is the fact that imagine walking down a hallway. Okay. And in this hallway there are several doors. And the first couple doors are doors that you know your life, your family, your kids, your [00:05:00] job, who you think you are, right?

And then when you do psychedelics or you have a transcendental experience, you open a door that you never knew was there before. It's a golden door, and you're like, oh my God, this is incredible. Can I just always be in this door? This is the best door ever. Why? Why would there ever, why would anybody else want to go in any other doors?

Okay, I don't need the olive garden. I need this door. Then the door closes and you have to go back to the other doors and you're like, no, no, no. I like that door. That's how I felt on psychedelics when I did it. And that's really how I felt on his progressive workshop. 'cause I was like, oh my God, this is amazing.

And then I had to go back to the other doors and I was like, yo, fuck these doors. Through the magic of the universe and through the perfection of this planet. I was gifted a ticket to the Dallas Progressive Workshop by my incredible friend, Kyra Casey, which back up, back up, back up, right? I was out right at around in that time, in early February.

I was getting into him. I discovered Kyra maybe [00:06:00] a couple weeks ago, weeks before that, and I knew on YouTube just popped up. I knew I had to talk to her and I had her on my podcast, and we became great friends. If you can give one gift to anyone in the world. It would be a Roomba. If you can give a second gift to anyone in the world, it would be a ticket to the Joe Dispenza Progressive Workshop or a week long workshop.

So I go and I just got back a couple days and I'm actually kind of sick. Apparently there's something called a Dispenza influenza. This is how I would describe it, guys, for those of you who are curious, and my God, I know you are, and we can get a real range of. Uh, my experience here from the practical to the supernatural, from the mystical to the really nice buffet, a week long Joe Dispenza retreat is like going to an amusement park where every single day the [00:07:00] ride is you, you are discovering a new thing about yourself.

And you are experiencing literally a new perspective on life and a vision and a connection for your higher self on a level that you did not know was possible. And you are learning all these things about yourself, and you're just increasing your belief in yourself and your ability and your knowing. Of how powerful you really are.

It's like going to a religious pilgrimage to see a yogi, but then you leave the yogi. That's how I feel right now. It felt like a week long seven day mushroom trip sober. Okay. My analytical mind was basically shut off the whole time. So in this entire week, I never once got actually mad, got stressed out, got worried.

I got upset if [00:08:00] I had pockets of worrying. I knew that it was gonna be okay because I was probably gonna be meditating for two and a half hours in about 30 seconds. And guys, I had things to worry about. So if you're like, oh, he is in vacation mode, of course. Yeah. 'cause you're right, everyone's favorite vacation is Dallas something that I think is really important for all of us to consider on this journey.

And if you're here, you're curious and you're down with this idea already. Okay. Are you so special at this point in your life that you have figured out everything? If so, what's it like being Elon Musk dispenser? Kept saying, your brain filters out 99% of the information. And as a curious, skeptical mind, which I am, I have a comedic brain when I meet someone or someone speaks to me from an authority figure.

I cannot tell you how my instant gut reaction is. [00:09:00] Fuck you, always. But here's the thing, your soul knows the truth. And as Jerry Seinfeld said, the truth has the way of ending every conversation. So when you hear it, you just know it's true and you don't have to defend it. So what I'm about to say to you guys, I would be very surprised if outright.

Anybody's soul. I didn't say brain. I didn't say 99% filtered out brain who has all the answers. And I looked it up 'cause I wanted to verify this myself. 'cause I don't wanna just take anybody's word for anything. I have researched Joe Dispenza, I have looked at the criticisms of him and I'm happy to field all of them.

Your brain gets an average of 40,000 to 50,000 bits of information per second, and it takes in four D to 50. Just play that back in your head. So if this is true, then I have to ask you a question. Aren't you curious [00:10:00] about the other 99% of all of life seems kind of like a big deal, like something that maybe you'd want to find out, or are you happy thinking that all of reality is the DraftKings commercial you're watching right now?

Because I feel like maybe not. Okay. So he showed us some science and he said literally yes. It's like you are, your brain is on a seven day mushroom trip. Okay? So what happened was I never got upset. I never, things that used to bother me and trigger me on social media unaffected. I barely checked the news, barely checked politics.

I literally can stand before you today and say that I am a different person. And one of the things that I think is really important to remember is people talk about brainwashing a lot, right? That's a way to distance themselves from growth. This is brainwashing or whatever. Never forget ever. Please. [00:11:00] You are always being brainwashed and you've always been brainwashed.

Have you guys ever been to Europe? Have you ever driven through the highways of Europe? Do you know that there are no billboards? Do you know that? Do you know what it's like to look around and just see vast peace? Not in this country. Not in this country, no. You know what we think is normal defense lawyers in positions like this saying, I got your fucking back dude.

Compound that over 40 years. Compound everything you've seen on TV over 50 years, 40 years, whatever it is. Compound all the messages that you've gotten, which pretty much, I'm gonna make another video about this separately. The two messages that we've pretty much gotten from our culture is, number one, you are not enough.

And number two, something else is okay. So if you have those two messages played at you ad nauseum for 40 years, [00:12:00] I would maybe venture to call that a brainwashing. And let's also not ever forget, please, that the number one brainwashing you are doing is coming from you, okay? And that is your incessant belief about who you think you are.

All of the limitations beliefs, who you think what you're capable of doing, the income that you're capable of making, the limitations of yourself, your physical health, all that stuff is all coming from you, which is an amalgamation of your programming. Get back to Dispen it. It's a seven day experiment.

And he kind of talks about this like what would happen if you nuclear bombed 2000 people with love and you do that through meditation, which is about, we meditated for about 36 hours. What it really is and what people don't really talk about enough. With Dispen it is that it's really teaching you and to be a master of the present moment.

So it's really not that different than Eck Tole or Michael Singer. What's really [00:13:00] cool though, that's also not talked about. So I'm gonna try and say some things that people have not really talked about, about dispensary retreat. What I think is really cool though is it's really a seven day bootcamp of you coming up against you and seeing is, can you sit in the present moment?

Can you master your mind and can every time that your body tries to get you to leave, to be worried and upset and anger, anger at somebody, or to go do some shit or to like worry about your past or start blaming someone or be like, I have a scratch. I can't sit here anymore. Can you sit through that?

There's a massive amount of discipline you learn on this week long that is so applicable to all other things in your life. Like I did a five hour meditation, guys. Are you kidding me? I used to think 10 minutes was long. If a year ago someone was like, Hey, Brendan, do you wanna do a five hour meditation?

I'm like, cool. I'm gonna leave the country. Hopefully never see you again. Every [00:14:00] time you come up against you, and every time you come up against all the excuses why you can't meditate, and you sit yourself down and you train yourself like an animal, this is what Joe said. You show yourself that. You show yourself that you can push past all the games you play in your mind, all the lies you tell yourself, you can push past it.

Joe said, your belief in yourself has to be earned. Meaning, the more you do this, the more you show yourself, oh my God, I can do a lot of things. Okay. The week really dives in further into his work a hundred percent, and I don't want to get too much into it, but basically I learned about unlocking energy centers and things in my body, which for some reason, no one's ever taught us.

And again, taking no substance. Taking, buying nothing for anybody who's [00:15:00] worried that that's what this is. Uh, it's all coming from within you. This is what's fascinating, guys. Seven day experiment of nuclear bombing. 2000 people with love. What would happen? Right? Look at it objectively from a scientific experiment.

So let's just do a compare and contrast. What would happen if you put 2000 people in a room? Nuclear bombed them with love. Now, what would happen if you put 2000 people in a room and show them nothing but true crime?

How do you think those people would act when they left? Okay, so if we have a general idea of what we think that answer's gonna be, then maybe what we're inputting into our brains and maybe what we're saying to ourselves and maybe what we're connecting to. Actually has the single biggest impact on a reality and your perceptions and what you see and what you don't see.

So this is what's fascinating, and I saw this with the progressive, the beginning of the progressive in la. People were [00:16:00] squirrely. They were like, eh, I want to eat. Let me go in. I'm la I can't, it's, it's 60 degrees. I'm gonna die out here. Oh my God. In Dallas, people were a little like, Ugh, ugh, shit. Ugh. In the first couple days, like, no, I got, I don't do that.

I'm, I'm this bad, blah. Both times, every time we meditated, you could see all of the walls dropping. By day four of this progressive workshop, I saw strangers holding hands. I saw people getting things for other people. I saw people helping out each other. I saw people hugging each other. I saw people putting their heads on each other's shoulders.

Why is this significant? It's because all we are doing in Dispenza and all we are doing in all of this work is getting back to the place we came from. Everybody loves that rom dos quote. [00:17:00] We're all just walking each other home. Right? And you hear that and you're like, that sounds true. 'cause it is. So one of the things he said was, your soul came here to answer the following question.

Is there anything other than oneness? So he called a guy on stage, um, who I ended up talking to. This dude was really cool, and he was like, okay, so I'm the soul and this is, and he's hugging this guy. He's like, I'm your soul, and this is oneness. Then he breaks away from the guy. So this is the guy, this is Dispenza.

And so the soul leaves to go answer the question, is there anything other than oneness? Right. So you're on a journey, you're on a self-exploration, and then every time you come back to meditating or you come back to the present moment, you touch oneness, you touch the present moment, and then you take a piece of it with you back to the exploration.

Right? So that's all. This is if you are living a very stressed out life, which I have. So I would like to just say the following things with [00:18:00] complete understanding and empathy. I live in New York for 12 years for fuck's sake. Okay? You guys ever been on a J train going to white cloth? You guys ever been in Staten Island and in that stressed out existence, I would have these very fleeting pockets of moments of insane peace transcendent moments, a concert.

Kissing a beautiful woman, not going to sbarro. I remember I was on vacation in Costa Rica and the sun was setting and I was on this boat cruise, and I remember this insane wash. Like I was just getting like whitewashed with like insane calm and peace and I was like, oh my God, you can feel this way. What?

No way. And then I'll go right back to my life and we all go right back to our life. So all Joe Dispenza is doing is teaching you how to get back to that oneness a little bit more all the time to take it back with you and using [00:19:00] your body and your autonomic nervous system to take it with you in your everyday lives and to believe in the possibility of your future.

And he said your future self is way cooler than you are, and by the end of seven days. I was like, I want all of you to live with me. So what if you could take that oneness and that feeling of being whole and complete a little bit more into your lives all the time, what would happen? Do you know what would happen?

You would be really happy you. You don't need to live in a constant state of stress, in a constant state of anxiety, and you realize that the world is. Actually kind of an amazing place. So after this week, guys, I have in, in the middle of this week, I have never been happier. I have never felt more like myself and I have never felt more free.

And I have a question for you. What would the value of that be for you? And then let's talk about the people that are there friends. So right now you might have this picture like it's a guy with a guilt. Okay. He's just carrying a, [00:20:00] a lavender candle running around telling everyone to join his at sea shop.

And I did. That guy is there, but that's like one of the. 2000 of the guys and women and amazing humans. Okay. I hung out. This is who I talked to at the Joe Dispenza event. I met an amazing actress from Mexico and I talked to an air Condi, a straight up cowboy air conditioner salesman from Dallas who's like.

Yeah, man. I'll use the power of visualization to manifest my daughters back into my life, like the last guy in the world that you would think would be any of this shit. Okay. I met a life coach from Savannah and a finance bro from Chicago. I met someone with prostate cancer from Venezuela. I met these great couple from Oklahoma City that you would just see out having a good drink, like having a good night out.

I met two guys that flew there from India. One was there to heal his wife. [00:21:00] So the other part of the Dispenza that I want to talk about is so many people are there to heal. Okay? So these are people who have serious, serious health setbacks, people who have stage four cancer, muscular dystrophy, prostate cancer.

I ended up running into someone who I know who has stage four. She was there. Yes. And it's crazy. I never met her in person, but we ran into each other in the lobby of the hotel. These people are there to get healed. So you do something called the Coherence healing, which was one of the most powerful experiences in my life.

So over time you get really good at meditating and then it's really brilliant. Joe has you use your magical powers to start healing other people. Right? And we heard from a guy who healed himself of Parkinson's. A woman who healed herself of horrific liver cancer. I saw these stories guys. And that's about, again, 50 of these stories I've now heard.

And for whatever reason, I kept [00:22:00] seeing this guy who I think had muscular dystrophy. So he was walking with his trouble walking. So he has like these long ski poles. They're not crutches, they're like poles. Okay. I kept seeing him and I don't know why I kept seeing him. He was probably 20 years older than me.

Yeah, and one of the biggest, best surprises of this trip of the week long is how amazing the walking meditations are, because Joe was saying like, I made them because I like would do the morning meditations, I would go right back into my old self, which is like exactly what I was doing. So I was like, no, I wanna keep this going.

So I did a walking meditation. It was one of the best moments of my life. Okay. So on the walking meditation, and this guy, I believe was a Healy. I'm walking out to the walking meditation and I see. Uh, the guy with see, the guy with the pulse, and then his friend is talking to him and he's like, Hey, man, I got you out there.

I, I'm with you. And I just, I clock it and I start doing the meditation. So I'm walking around, I'm fucking getting into it. They took a picture of me. I [00:23:00] was like, felt so alive. I've never felt so good. Okay. I circle around again and I look over and I see the guy wa walking without his pulse. Just trying to walk.

And then you see, um, a husband take his wife out of a wheelchair so she can walk. And when you see these things, guys, you don't come back from that. You are not the same person. You start to realize what's really important and you start to realize what really matters. And so. Without. I see that guy walking in without the pulse and I clock him and I'm like, okay.

And then we come back in and we watch, like we see the clips of us doing the walking meditation. It looks fucking awesome. 2000 people walked in and so the seven day happens, it's [00:24:00] compounding. Like all of a sudden the last day is here. I'm feeling so much love and I'm like sad. I'm like, I don't want this week to end.

I'm like legitimately nervous for this week to end. Because I'm like, I don't wanna go back to my life, like I'm so happy. Um, and what's really cool is you can get really close and start dancing. So before every session they play pump up music where people dance for like at least 20 minutes. So I'm like, I'm gonna go up the last time I'm here.

I had to leave a session early to catch a flight and I'm, I'm gonna go up. So I'm in it and they're playing Coldplay and I look over. I see that guy. Who had the poles, but then was walking during the walking meditation. I see him on the dance floor with no pulse, holding up a phone. Everyone was holding up their phones for lights and I couldn't like.

I couldn't talk for like three minutes because it was so powerful. So, [00:25:00] so my biggest concern was coming back, I was like, oh fuck, I can't, uh, the golden door. But I'm happy to report that I have never, that I'm. Feel so good. I feel amazing, and the tools that you get at the week long are really sustainable and I've just been continuing my meditation and I'm actually really excited to be back in life.

I think the number one thing I want you to take away. Is just knowing how big you are and to look at your reality right now as a box. Are you happy with this box? If you are, that's great. If you want some things to change in this box, know that there's not one box, there's 10,000, and in every one of those boxes is a possibility for you.

That version of you, whatever you want to. Exists out there. And the only thing is, is your body [00:26:00] is gonna do whatever it can to use your automatic programming to send you back to this box. Okay? But just know you're bigger than that. Know that when you that inside of you, you have an energy and a life.

Force that is so big and so huge that it's unlimited, that it's that there actually are no words that I can cause a guy who has muscular dystrophy to dance on dance for. So I left Dispenza feeling kind of like a superhero, and I just want you to feel the same way and let's go.