The Science Behind That Feeling That There’s “More”

Yesterday I spent over three hours on the phone with my brother.

Three hours!

We didn’t talk about weather or work or what we’re “supposed” to be doing with our lives.

We talked about everything.

Jesus.

Buddha.

Addiction.

Recovery.

Energy healing.

Meditation.

Relationships.

Death.

Parenting.

Childhood trauma.

Big Pharma.

Limiting beliefs.

Astrology.

Natural healing.

Why keeping up with the Joneses doesn’t even feel tempting anymore.

At one point I remember thinking, Wow… ten years ago this conversation would have been impossible.

And honestly? I felt a little like a weirdo the whole time, sharing my thoughts about consciousness, energy, intuition, and how I see the world now. But what made it different was that my brother stayed open. He listened. He asked questions. He didn’t try to fix me or debate me. He just… met me there.

And by the end of the call, I knew something had shifted between us.

We had connected on a deeper level than we ever had before.

The Moment That Blew His Mind

Somewhere in the middle of our conversation, I said something that stopped him in his tracks.

I told him: “Not everyone thinks about their life purpose.”

He was shocked.

To him — and honestly to me — the idea of not wondering why you’re here, what your soul is here to learn, or how your pain might actually mean something felt almost unthinkable.

But that’s when it clicked.

A lot of people are just trying to survive.

Pay the bills.

Get through the week.

Follow the rules.

Do what they were told.

They were never taught to ask the bigger questions.

How We Were Conditioned to Stay Small

We talked a lot about religion, too — not in a “burn it all down” way, but in a really honest, curious way.

We were both raised with a version of faith that focused more on obedience than embodiment. On sin more than self-awareness. On external authority more than inner knowing.

And while religion gave us community, structure, and meaning, it also quietly taught us something else:

Don’t trust yourself.

Don’t question.

Don’t explore.

Don’t feel too deeply.

Don’t wander too far from what you’ve been told is “right.”

When you grow up like that, you don’t learn how to listen to your body, your intuition, or your nervous system. You learn how to override it.

And that’s how people end up disconnected from their purpose.

Why So Many of Us Are Waking Up Right Now

We even went into the idea of the “3D to 5D shift” which sounds woo-woo until you look at it through a scientific lens.

Time is speeding up.

Our nervous systems are being overloaded.

Our old ways of coping aren’t working anymore.

There’s research showing how trauma, stress, and emotional suppression impact the body. There’s neuroscience showing how meditation rewires the brain. There’s epigenetics showing how what we experience literally changes how our genes express.

Something is changing, in our biology, our awareness, and our culture.

People are realizing that numbing, hustling, and pretending isn’t sustainable.

And when the old systems stop working, people start asking new questions.

Like…Why am I really here?

Why do I keep repeating the same patterns?

What does my soul actually want?

That’s life purpose knocking.

Maybe Your “Weirdness” Is Actually Your Calling

What I realized at the end of that three-hour call is this:

The things that once made me feel different, strange, or “too much” are actually the very things that let me connect deeply with others.

Curiosity.

Sensitivity.

Intuition.

A desire to understand pain instead of avoid it.

A willingness to look beyond what’s comfortable.

That’s not weird.

That’s purpose.

Not everyone feels called to look inward. Not everyone feels drawn to healing, growth, or meaning. But if you do, if you’ve always felt like there was something more, welcome to enlightenment.

You’re remembering.

And sometimes all it takes is one long, honest conversation to realize that the distance between us was never as big as we thought.