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The Noah Frequency
[19] You’re Trying Too Hard to Understand
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In this episode of The Noah Frequency, Noah addresses a subtle but constant obstacle:
the need to understand everything.
As questions arise about meaning, clarity, and spiritual progress, Noah points out something most people don’t notice—that the effort to “figure it out” is often what keeps the truth out of reach.
Because what you’re seeking…
isn’t found through effort.
It’s recognized when effort softens.
This conversation explores:
- Why overthinking creates distance from clarity
- The difference between understanding and knowing
- How the mind interferes with direct experience
- Why truth often feels simple—but gets complicated
- And what happens when you stop trying to “get it”
At some point, the path forward isn’t about learning more.
It’s about letting something… land.
A live show where a channeled consciousness named O speaks through trans medium Nico Kapuzos. Fielding questions about life's mysteries and about you. What follows is not an interview, but rather a QA with the spirit world. I'm your host, Stephen Berkeley. Greetings, Noah. It's wonderful to have you with us today.
SPEAKER_03Greetings to you, my dear one. Once more, my dear, it is an honor. And we are grateful for the opportunity.
SPEAKER_02Our honor as well.
SPEAKER_03Greetings to all who have joined and to all who are listening. Our humble gratitude bestowed to each of you as well. Notice this, my dear ones. The articulation of humanity. The mention of a spirit realm. The mention of a heaven. The mention of death as finality. And notice also what occurs. Each one experiences thoughts which appear intuition which appears the sense of someone who is distant and suddenly they make contact with you. The perception of separation of somewhere else. Why does this occur? Is this apparent veil introduced within the incarnation? Your consciousness, my dear ones, you are structured to the human form for this experience. This is often forgotten, misunderstood. Teachings enforcing fear, enforcing separation. Notice why so many turn to essence for guidance. It is misguided perception. This is where all confusion originates. Attempting to instruct one how to connect with essence, utilizing the mind. Always interconnected. You are merely expressing your essence through your human form. Now ask yourselves. Are you honestly, truthfully expressing your essence? Are you of love? Are you forgiving? Compassionate, patient, generous? Or have you allowed the control of the identity to override your truth? When the truth is simplified, 'tis much easier to recognize yourself within it, easier to apply adjustments, easier to distinguish between the conditioning of the mind and what resonates within. Notice even your questions. Notice where are they originating from? Thank you, my dear one. Thank you. Each are seeking more clarity on questions seeking answers, explanations. Feel free, my dear ones, to come forth.
SPEAKER_02Okay. Who would like to ask the first question? It looks like Randy has her hand up. Hi, Randy.
SPEAKER_01Hi, Stephen. Greetings, Nico. I mean, Noah.
SPEAKER_03Greetings to you, my dear one.
SPEAKER_01Um, the question is forming. I know all the questions are coming from the identity. Um I love the idea of the essence, living my essence through my human form. And I notice how my conditioned mind gets in the way often from fear, like something will come, a thought will arrive, or feeling mostly a sensation, and quickly, and I my mind is confusing me with telling me why not a good idea or afraid to take the risk. I'm curious about that.
SPEAKER_03Indeed, my dear notice, you stated that your question originates from your identity. And then you followed with a thought appearing, a sensation appearing. It all appears within awareness, my dear. Even your question. But notice, my dear, it is a reflex of the identity. This is the conditioning. This is why there is confusion, resistance. To not focus as much, my dear, as a thought that appears with a sensation. Notice why there is a response of the identity. And you are able to differentiate, my dear, the two. You may notice the reflex, you may notice the resistance, you may notice the continuous building and reshaping of that said thought. And when you notice, my dear, it is easier to let it go. For if your focus is on the manipulation of the thought, your focus is on the identity's control. And that is when you are not observing the intuitive thought, the guidance, the direction, the love. You recognize the control, the misinterpretation of what the original meaning of the thought entailed. So as you notice, my dear, the question is why? Why is it occurring? This is an indication of what you still must let go of. And notice, my dear, you are even aware of that. And that is where the fear rests. Fear, my dear, is simply control, disguise this fear. What is there to fear? If you are consciousness, my dear, if you are interconnected as essence, and there truly is no fear, is there? It is the identity recognizing it will lose its control and instilling fear of the unknown to continue its hold. But view it, my dear, not as failure, but as recognition. Once you recognize what is occurring, my dear, the passageway to remembrance is clearer. Is this resonating with you, my dear?
SPEAKER_01Completely. I mean, I am recognizing the fear, and it's funny, I like as you were speaking, I heard sort of just like take the leap, like in it. That's like take the leap, trust. Because I do know, and then the fear comes in, and I I don't know if I can work through if I need to work through the fear or or ignore um feel the fear, acknowledge the fear, and release the fear.
SPEAKER_03My dear, if you the difficulty one experiences as they are swimming against the current, you cannot, my dear, go against the control of the identity. It offers the same difficulty. You are unaware, my dear, where the reflex is hidden. Just as you are unaware how your identity has been conditioned throughout your existence. Rather than conquering, my dear, simply notice and recognize it as the control of the identity. Remind yourself that you are essence. Remind yourself you are always interconnected. And do not follow the reflex. Do not follow the fear. Do not follow the building of the thought into a narrative. Simply notice and let it fall to the side. And this is how you sustain clarity. How you recognize intuitive thoughts. How you remember? Is that clear, my dear?
SPEAKER_01It is, thank you.
SPEAKER_03And are you Thank you, Randy? There is another question, my dear.
SPEAKER_01Oh God, I have so many. I don't know if other people have questions. Um uh I have some like practical, like one of the intuitive things that's coming, I think is intuitive, is uh connected to my my dog and and and feeling like he's gonna be part of like a making him into a therapy dog. That I don't know if that was like there's something about my work and the connection of the animal to my work.
SPEAKER_03Prior to including your assistant with the physical work, my dear. Focus on how its presence is intended for you to find the stability of your connection. View it as a grounding rod, if you will, my dear. That safety, that tranquility, the calmness when it sits beside you. Notice how the resistance softens. Notice how the intuitive thoughts are clear. This is its purpose, my dear. The agreement. Continue to aim your focus on the connection, sensing essence, sensing expansiveness, focusing on this form of communication writing, speaking, allow yourself to be the free expression of essence, my dear. Trusting the safety it is providing you. And once that is stabilized, introduce it with those who come before you for your service. Do not label it. Without you instructing it, offering them stability, safety to open, to receive, to expand. Is that clear, my dear?
SPEAKER_01It is. I feel already like I'm communicating with him through my heart and his like I can feel his heart in my chest.
SPEAKER_03Indeed, my dear, essence to essence.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03As we have stated prior, my dear. Yeah, it is not, my dear. There is a remembrance, a recognition. You sensed it the moment your eyes fell upon it. Trust that which you do not currently remember. It shall unfold, my dear. Allow yourself to glimpse your love through its eyes. It does not view through labels. It views as essence. It recognizes your love. Intentionally for you to recognize your love. Is that clear, my dear?
SPEAKER_01Very much so. I'm so grateful. Thank you.
SPEAKER_03And I you, my dear.
SPEAKER_02Thank you, Randy. Who would like to ask the next question? Oh, I got something from looks like is that Vicky? Where's your mechanical hand, Vicki? That's okay. You could you can go ahead and unmute unmute yourself, or I'll do it. Okay, you're unmuted.
SPEAKER_08Thank you. Good evening.
SPEAKER_03Greetings to you, my dear.
SPEAKER_08Good evening. Um, I would like to ask with the um forward thinking and technology that's now available. Is there a way that spirit would like humanity to communicate more efficiently, or what are their thoughts on that?
SPEAKER_03My dear to viewing your devices as a form of communication, it is essential to view yourselves first as the source of communication. Are you speaking your truth? Even when you fear the reaction of others. I'm learning to that, my dear, is the change of humanity. It's not pertinent, my dear, of devices or technologies advancement. It returns to the individual, my dear. Notice how many remain silent for fear of rejection, isolation, loneliness. Therefore, my dear, they perceive it is safer to remain silent and agree with the misunderstanding of the masses. Even the devices, my dear, utilized incorrectly to spread fear so the few regain control. Notice, my dear, the more advancements humanity has endured, the more fear has been spread. Remain true to your essence, my dear. Always speak your truth. Do not fear how you will be accepted. From doing so you are unaware of how instrumental you are, your words, your truth to the one before you. Do not view them as another in physical form. View them as essence, experiencing a human incarnation as you. And there is no fear. There is no judgment. There is no need of acceptance. The more you continue to speak your truth, the more they listen. There will come a time where the majority will speak their truth. And that is when the devices will be utilized correctly, my dear. Is this clear?
SPEAKER_08Yes, yes, very clear. Thank you.
SPEAKER_03And I you, my dear.
SPEAKER_02Thank you. Who else do we have? Anyone else like to ask a question? Oh, Catherine? You're unmuted.
SPEAKER_00Hi, good afternoon. Hi, Noah.
SPEAKER_03Greetings to you, my dear.
SPEAKER_00Stephen Greetings. I do have two questions, but I'll just start with one so I don't take up too much time. Um, these are just wonderings, actually, after you have had me contemplating so much over the last month or so that I have met you, and I've been curious about these topics for a very long time. Um so I'm curious about, and maybe I don't know if I'm gonna summarize this correctly, so maybe some of my understanding is incorrect, but essence seems fairly solitary in that we our essences make covenants with each other, with other essences, but like it's a it sounds like a fairly solitary journey because that essence can make connections with other any other essences. But um on earth, where all of us are in our human form, the pinnacle of s success has often been coupling. And like that's the goal to be coupled. And so I'm curious what and I'm I don't I was thinking about how to word this. Like, where are you? Are you in the spirit world? Like, I don't know how to term that, like where it really matters, where do essences reside? I don't know how to say that, but what is the thought on our obsession in these incarnations with coupling and um when it doesn't seem to be the goal of our essence? That could maybe be one goal or something like that, but it seems to be disproportionately um the goal here on earth.
SPEAKER_03So I'm curious what you think about just my dear three questions within one question. Allows to begin, my dear, with this misinterpretation of a solitary existence. Once more, my dear, you are the privy of this one lifetime, one trajectory. And because this is all you are aware of, your intellect perceives it is the only one. There are multiple parallel realities occurring simultaneously, my dear. The perception of solitary is the one lifeline, the one incarnation, the one identity. That is incomplete. You are not within the full, my dear. You are within consciousness. View it is a projection of your essence to your reality that you are privy of. There are multiple projections, my dear, of the same essence within parallel realities. As mentioned earlier, notice how the conditioned mind perceives there is a location, spirit realm. A here and a there. This is also incomplete, my dear. You have never left. There is no separation, there are no levels, there are no realms. There is merely perception, my dear, in order to align you with your current incarnation, allowing everything around you to appear real, though it is an illusion. You mentioned covenants, agreements, my dear, as they are random. And yet notice how many others within physical form have you encountered throughout your journey thus far, even if brief. There have been many, my dear, and many yet to come. That does not equate to solidarity. You are unaware, my dear, what the covenants truly possess and to which timelines they are addressed to. Take for instance, my dear, your parents. You recognize them as the label, the title of parents, but you are unaware what other relationships are occurring through other parallel realities, with the same essences, through the same covenant. The covenant, my dear, is not as simple as you perceive it to be. It is not direct. It is not you receive this lesson and they receive that lesson. It is based on themes, if you will, my dear. Play it out through various, countless roles each one possesses to the degrees of emotion, circumstances, events, multiple lessons lived, earned, experienced, to perceive it as one incarnation offers limitation, my dear, to the growth of one's essence. There is much more than the human mind can comprehend. Allow that to serve as an indication, my dear, that you are not merely this human identity. For it is the intellect of your essence which creates all these pathways, all these circumstances, relationships, moments. And further, my dear, all has been created, designed, implemented prior to your incarnation beginning. Is this clear, my dear?
SPEAKER_00Yes, thank you. I was reducing it down to in a math equation.
SPEAKER_03Indeed, my dear, but notice the ability of your intellect within this incarnation is limited, my dear. When the time arises, my dear, and you are able to remember your essence, remember the architecture, that is when you will be able to glimpse parallel realities. It is not that your intellect increases. Remembrance supersedes any intellect, any mind, any incarnation possesses. And that is still merely a glimpse of the powerful intellect your essence truly possesses, my dear. So you are deducing equations. You are attempting to find a solution. You are attempting to navigate what you perceive as the unseen. But notice its origin. It begins from your identity. And that is where there is limits. You are striving to acquire knowledge in order to remember. But you are forgetting, my dear, that you already remember. Do not assume. Do not create. All of that is based on the condition line of this identity. Rather trust insight, trust feeling, trust intuition, without interference, do not negate it. Do not dismiss it so easily. It may appear simple, unfamiliar, unrefined. But the more you trust it, the more clarity comes through. That is remembrance, my dear. Is that clear, my dear?
SPEAKER_00I think so. Are you saying stop studying and stop trying to learn and just notice my dear?
SPEAKER_03Notice that which you are studying. Notice the source, my dear. If it is another in physical form, it is based on their perception. It is based on their condition, mind. This is how the teachings, my dear, of humanity have been passed through generations. The difference is the vocabulary changed. But the same interference has occurred, the same confusion, the same fear, the same control. Identity seeking wisdom to another identity. Both conditioned. Your essence, my dear, possesses all the answers you seek rather than seeking externally. Listen within. Is that clear, my dear?
SPEAKER_00Yes, it is, thank you.
SPEAKER_03And if my dear, it is much more familiar to you. Safer To listen to a mentor. Focus on the words being articulated, my dear. Are they the same? As the teachings passed through generations? Or do they appear different? No. The pathway might take you choose. Follow your intuition. Allow the words you hear to resonate within and not merely appease your intellect. This is how one is able, my dear, to decipher the truth through teachings passed through generations which are incomplete. Is that clear, my dear? Yes, it is. Thank you. You may provide us with your second question, my dear.
SPEAKER_00I will reserve the right to maybe ask it later. It just seems trivial compared, you know, I don't know. Well my dear.
SPEAKER_03No question is trivial. Each question leads to your remembrance. There is an intention, my dear, why you possess this question.
SPEAKER_00Okay, so the term empath that we use. When I was much younger, I used to think it was something only some people were, and it made you special because you had a certain knowing. And then as I got older, I thought I changed my thinking and thought. Empaths are called that because they've been through certain experiences that make them extra sensitive to knowing. But I'm just curious what your thoughts are on it. It seems to me what we would think of an empath as here is that we are getting closer. Maybe the more empathic that people perceive you, that's the closer you're getting to essence. I don't know.
SPEAKER_03My dear. Once more labels are placed through misunderstandings. You are witnessing this form of communication, my dear. Do you truly perceive that this vessel possesses special abilities that you do not? This is the misunderstanding, my dear. The confusion. This transmission is occurring, my dear, because there is no interference to this lesson. There are no special abilities, there are no labels. Each of you is essence. There is not one who is experiencing a physical incarnation, my dear. Possesses their essence within their form. Each one, my dear, is essence, is within consciousness, is interconnected with all essences. There are no special abilities, my dear. There is merely interference or no interference. So when one regulates empaths has a certain few. Each one, my dear, who is experiencing an incarnation possesses breath. But without it, my dear, there will be no form activated within your reality. The breath, my dear, is what all of humanity truly take for granted. The breath, my dear, is the interface. This is how your essence anchors into the human form. So as each one, my dear, possesses breath that equates to each one being essence. Therefore, my dear, each one is sensitive. Each one recognizes essence. Each one senses emotions. Each one possesses a truth. Each one is of love. Each one experiences love as the most natural emotion that exists. Each one experiences difficulty with pain, for it is unnatural to love. But each one is also experiencing an incarnation. To truly learn the degrees of love. For without love, pain would not be possible. But it begins, my dear, the exact same way. The physical form enters your reality without breath, nearly liquid in the lungs, and then the breath appears. Each incarnation exactly the same. So if that occurs, my dear, why are there labels placed on the select few? Why is the notion that One must obtain an ability to be able to connect with essence if each incarnation originates the same exact way. This is conditioning. This is control. This is fear. That is the illusion. Is this clear, my dear?
SPEAKER_00Yes, I guess the question was more um, why do we do that? Why do we label things like that? But you just answered that at the end, so I appreciate that.
SPEAKER_03It is also, my dear, intentional. Otherwise, my dear, if each of you remembered, there would be no conditioning of an identity. You would be exactly as you were as a toddler. Open, receptive, free. No conditioning. Then, my dear, the human incarnation would not be as profound as it is. The lessons would not have been experienced. Is that clear, my dear?
SPEAKER_00Yes, yeah. I have a well, I guess I have a follow-up question.
SPEAKER_03Indeed, my dear.
SPEAKER_00Because I'm struggling with the work that I do, which is a teacher, and I, you know, teach hundreds of kids a day from one class to the next. And I watch them change by conditioning. I teach five to 12-year-olds all day long, and I've known them for years. And how do you I know that's my job here is to live this incarnation, but I find it very depressing. It's it's really hard to watch year after year, especially as time has gone on. How children become conditioned and lose their joy specifically. Lose their joy. It makes me want to not do this anymore, but then I know that leaving isn't the answer because there's these issues in in all um types of work, but am I just am I just complaining about all the minutiae of what I'm here to do?
SPEAKER_03Like am I you're overlooking your purpose? It is as clear as day before your very eyes. It was not a random choice, my dear, to select the occupation. It was intentional. You have been noticing the conditioning. Now notice your own conditioning. Notice how you have changed. And notice, my dear, how you are now returning. You are seeking clarity, you are attempting to remember your truth. It is a cycle, if you will, my dear. The incarnation begins with remembrance, then the conditioning offers forgetfulness, then there is a return to remembrance. The more one deviates away, my dear, the more one is conditioned, the more one forgets, enables then an even more profound remembrance. So rather than being disappointed, continue to hold faith, my dear, and hope. Just as you are returning, so too shall they. Such a powerful experience for essence, my dear. It allows the forgetfulness to become as real as the remembrance. Utilize that which you are viewing, that which you are learning, remembering. And teach others, my dear. Do not hold the wisdom within. As you continue to remember your own truth, my dear, utilize what you have been learning and offer explanations. Remind those, my dear, who have been conditioned of their past in order so they too are able to glimpse their future. Is this clear, my dear?
SPEAKER_00It is, thank you.
SPEAKER_03And are you?
SPEAKER_02Thank you, Catherine. It looks like we have time for one more question, and I believe uh Lennis Angel, you had your hand up before. You have you still have a question? Okay, let me unmute you. Okay, you're you're unmuted.
SPEAKER_07Yes, can you hear me?
SPEAKER_02Yes.
SPEAKER_07Hi. Um good evening, Noah.
SPEAKER_03Greetings to you, my dear.
SPEAKER_07Just a quick question. As essence, as well as residing as Nico's spiritual guide, where does essence actually reside in the spiritual world?
SPEAKER_03My dear. Let us remove the destination of a spirit world. What you are asking, my dear. First view your own incarnation in reverse. As you are recognizing only this human interface, my dear, this human expression as your essence. We're guiding your essence, my dear. Guiding this journey is your highest essence, my dear. It is allowing oversoul wisdom to be translated to human comprehension. This is your inner knowing, my dear.
SPEAKER_04Okay.
SPEAKER_03Your oversoul, my dear, is also a component of your essence. This is created, my dear, in order for incarnations to occur. View it, my dear, is what those in your realm refer to as the Akashic records, my dear. It stores all memories of all incarnations. It is viewing all parallel realities, my dear, where you perceive you may have made a mistake. It's actually growth within another expression, within another parallel reality. It is a central hub, if you will, of intelligence, my dear. Another component of your essence. And in order for you to experience incarnation, my dear, you must first view where you originate, within a field of consciousness. This is also where the creator resides, as you say, my dear. This is where all essences originate. Not all experience incarnations. This is also, my dear, where all consciousness resides. Which you view as planetary, violent oimals, plants, all consciousness. They all reside as essence within this infinite field of consciousness in the world, my dear. So this is where, as you state, you reside. But this is not a hierarchy, my dear. These are not levels, my dear. They are all components of your essence, really expressed differently. But all as one. That's why, my dear, when the perception of separation is instilled within your reality. It dismisses the architecture. This is why it isn't complete. Why it instills fear. Because then one believes they are left alone. But the moment your incarnation, my dear, becomes a reality through the breath, each component of your essence is activated, working in unison, if you will, for your incarnation to exist. Is that clear, my dear?
SPEAKER_07Thank you. You explain that beautifully. Thank you so much, Noah.
SPEAKER_03And I you, my dear.
SPEAKER_07Thank you.
SPEAKER_03And my dear, allow me to ask you.
SPEAKER_07Yes.
SPEAKER_03You are recognizing essence. You are recognizing the difference of perception. Do not focus on the mind, rather focus on the feeling of the heart. That is comforting. That is steady. That is forgiveness. Is that clear, my dear?
SPEAKER_07Yeah, I'm I'm I'm concentrating on it. I'm I'm learning step by step. I'm getting there, yeah.
SPEAKER_03Merely feel, my dear, and trust that which you feel, which does not have logic attached to it.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, I think because we are so used to living the identity, we do forget the essence, and it's letting go of the identity, and remember that we are essence. Exactly. That's why I asked the question. Where does it essence? Yeah.
SPEAKER_03It is not a matter of letting go of the identity, my dear. The identity is serving its purpose as well. Without the identity, there would be no incarnation. It is merely not viewing the identity as your source. Do not allow it to define you, my dear. It is merely a role you are portraying. Is that clear?
SPEAKER_07Thank you. It is. Thank you very much, Noah. Thank you.
SPEAKER_03And I you, my dear.
SPEAKER_07Thank you very much, Noah.
SPEAKER_02Thank you, let us eat. All right. Thank you, Noah. I think that we have all the time we have today. Thank you so much for joining gentle times of peace.