Joli tackles simulation theory, reincarnation, and romantic programming in an episode that’s equal parts metaphysics seminar and therapy session with your most unhinged friend.

The core provocation, that the person you’re “inexplicably drawn to” might be someone who killed you in a past life, is the kind of idea that sounds absurd until you realize how much cultural mythology around soulmates relies on magical thinking and manufactured scarcity.What makes this work isn’t the tightness of the argument (there isn’t one), but Joli’s willingness to think out loud without protecting her credibility.

She’s 50/50 on astrology, admits to impulsively blocking people, and pivots from discussing fractured superintelligence to pranking her future self on mushrooms. It’s messy in the way real intellectual exploration is messy: following threads, abandoning them, circling back.The episode’s strongest insight is simple: compatibility is overrated, consciousness isn’t. In a media landscape saturated with manifestation culture and “divine timing” rhetoric, Joli’s insistence that relationships require work, friction, and mutual wakefulness feels almost radical. The “temporal jellyfish” Man O’ War) metaphor, that we’re colonies of selves across time with little empathy for our future variants, explains more about self sabotage than most self help frameworks manage in entire books.For listeners exhausted by spiritual bypassing and algorithmic positivity, this is a necessary counterweight. Rather than selling certainty or comfort, Joli models what it looks like to question everything, including yourself.Best for: Philosophy nerds, simulation theory skeptics, anyone suspicious of rom com logic.Follow: @Joli.Artist | [joliartist.com/portal](http://joliartist.com/portal)#simulation #soulmates #consciousness #temporaljellyfish #philosophy #relationships-----

In this episode, JoLi breaks down a chance encounter with a "deviant thinker" who thought he was alone, and delivers the truth about why feeling different isn't isolation, it's recognition.

From past lives to the illusion of aging, this conversation goes deep into the nature of reality, purpose, and why some of us are wired to question everything.

If you've ever felt like you don't belong, like something's fundamentally off about this world, or like you're the only one who sees through the simulation, this episode is your confirmation that you're not broken. You're a flower among spikes.

💥 Topics Covered:

Why "deviant thinkers" aren't isolated, just separated across the population

The Ferris wheel analogy: understanding your ego's role in the ride

How reality is constructed by your nervous system (backed by neuroscience)

Past life memories and why you're drawn to things outside your culture

The mantra method: staying on your life path with the same discipline as meditation

Why aging is bullshit and how to reclaim your time from the 9 to 5 trap

Soul recognition vs. soul purpose, and why déjà vu matters

The uncomfortable truth: You were always going to wake up.

This was always your path. Stop fighting it.

⏱️ TIMESTAMPS:

00:01:24 - The Ferris wheel metaphor: Your ego as part of the ride

00:02:53 - You're not isolated, you're separated. Deviant thinkers explained

00:03:48 - The flower among spikes: Why you're different on purpose00:06:08 - Reality is a construct built by your nervous system

00:09:39 - Soul contracts & pre birth planning: Did you choose this life?

00:14:39 - Soul recognition: Why some people feel familiar

00:19:08 - You're ageless: Why aging is what you expose your body to

00:20:25 - Past life memories: The heart remembers what the mind can't

00:22:46 - Reclaim your time: Don't work 42 years for nothing

00:23:14 - The mantra method: Staying on your life path with discipline

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Are you really making choices? Or just experiencing a reality that already exists?

JoLi examines free will through quantum physics and philosophy, and discovers that causation, randomness, and choice are illusions we tell ourselves. Your brain acts before your consciousness catches up. All of time exists right now, simultaneously.

You're not creating anything, you're just walking through a reality that's already there. Most people stay locked in the same loop their entire lives, never realizing they can shift.

💥 Topics Covered:

• Why your neurons fire before you consciously decide anything (Benjamin Libet's research)

• How the 4D block universe destroys the concept of cause and effect

• Why quantum randomness isn't actually random once you examine it closely

• The only real power you have: choosing lower probability reality experiences

• Why most people are NPCs stuck in the same loop, and how to break out

• How "probability navigation" lets you shift between realities that already existThis is the uncomfortable truth about control, choice, and the nature of reality itself.

If you've ever felt trapped in autopilot, watching your life unfold like you're not even driving, this episode shows you what's actually happening.

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