Advertise on podcast: So You’re Living In A Simulation

Originally titled Doctor Manhattan’s Achilles Heel, this recovered episode of So You’re Living in a Simulation was released December 15, 2019. Part of The Lost Episodes, with a new narrated introduction and outro. Dr. Manhattan can see an argument coming. So why does he still have it? I look at Watchmen through free will, parallel timelines and the stubborn human personality that survives even godlike power. From relationship triggers to my own urge to overthink and delete a podcast, I ask what it takes to interrupt the pattern instead of acting out the same script. Watchmen spoilers. Original episode written and spoken by Joli Artist; new intro/outro use a synthetic narrator. Watch the illustrated video on YouTube More from Joli Artist Subscribe on YouTube

You get roughly 85 years on a planet that has existed for about 4.6 billion. So what exactly are we doing panicking about turning 30? In this episode of So You’re Living in a Simulation, @joli.artist explores the nature of time, aging, mortality, and the astonishingly brief human lifespan when measured against deep time. The conversation moves through reincarnation, eternity, synchronicity, consciousness, the Dead Internet Theory, AI, the concept of a universal mind, scarcity, and the strange assumptions human beings inherit about age, value, and reality itself. If we have lived before, why don’t we remember what we were worried about? If consciousness is individual, why does reality sometimes appear to produce clusters of meaningful patterns? If everything else in nature moves through cycles, why are we so certain that human existence happens only once? And if an 85-year life is barely a flicker against 4.6 billion years of Earth history, perhaps we should be considerably less obedient to arbitrary timelines about what our lives are supposed to look like. A philosophical wander through time, consciousness, reincarnation, mortality, synchronicity, and the very strange business of being temporarily human. Joliartist.com/portal

How much of your future is actually yours? In part one of the Psychological Sovereignty series, I explore one of the most subtle ways people influence our lives: by planting fears, predictions, and imagined futures into our minds until we begin making decisions that were never truly our own. I discuss: • Why the burden of proof belongs to the person making the claim. • How fear quietly redirects your decisions. • The danger of living to prove other people wrong. • Why protecting your attention is the foundation of psychological sovereignty. • How “planted futures” become self-fulfilling prophecies. • Why peace, joy, and playfulness are acts of resistance in a world constantly competing for your mind. The greatest threat to your freedom isn’t always force. Sometimes it’s simply accepting someone else’s imagination as your own. This is Part One of a new series on reclaiming the most valuable territory you possess: Your mind. ⸻ If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe and share it with someone who needs to hear it. Instagram: @joli.artist Website: joliartist.com/portal #PsychologicalSovereignty #Mindset #SimulationTheory #Philosophy #CriticalThinking

What if reality behaves more like a social media feed than a fixed world? In this episode, Joli explores a simple idea that changed the way she moves through life: algorithms learn from attention, not intention. After stepping away from doomscrolling, outrage, and constant engagement with negativity, she began noticing something unexpected. The more she disengaged from what drained her, the more her experience of reality itself seemed to change. We explore attention, social media algorithms, emotional engagement, energy, and whether the way we feed our attention might quietly shape the world we experience. This episode is an invitation to experiment with your own attention and see what changes.

People immediately mock the idea of non-human intelligence, but that mockery is conditioned. Once you stop laughing and actually reason through Earth’s age, oceans, myths, unexplored spaces, fiction, and the arrogance of human supremacy, the idea that humans are the highest intelligence here starts looking much less logical than we were taught. Humans seem like the pinnacle only inside the tiny official frame we were given: seven continents, land-based civilization, surface history, oceans as empty, myths as fantasy, aliens as space visitors. But once you open the frame, hidden lands, aquatic civilizations, older intelligences, non-human species, and simulation insertions become part of the question. This episode explores aliens, hidden civilizations, forgotten myths, and the possibility that Earth is much stranger than the map allows. Listen to more episodes of So You’re Living in a Simulation and explore my work here: joliartist.com #Aliens #HiddenCivilizations #SimulationTheory

In this episode of So You’re Living in a Simulation, Jo Li expands on her Medium article, The Three Body Problem of Consciousness, and explores one central question: What if you are not just your body, your brain, or even your mind? Jo breaks consciousness into a three-body system: the physical body, the mind, and chi, with the observer at the center. The body reacts before language. The mind explains, narrates, and often arrives late. Chi, drawing from the Igbo concept of a personal spiritual principle tied to destiny and the Socratic daimonion as an inner warning sign, becomes Jo’s term for a nonlinear layer of guidance many people dismiss as intuition, coincidence, or instinct. This episode moves through Socrates’ daimonion, Benjamin Libet’s free will experiments, “free won’t,” dreams, creative flow, placebo and nocebo effects, the 4D block universe, retrocausality, and the possibility that some forms of knowing may come from beyond ordinary conscious thought. Jo also connects these ideas to modern work culture, arguing that society benefits when people identify with the slowest, most controllable layer of themselves: the rational mind. From the eight-hour workday to corporate conditioning, she challenges listeners to stop treating themselves as small, mechanical, and powerless. This is an episode about body intelligence, mind intelligence, chi, dreams, intuition, free will, sovereignty, and what happens when you stop negotiating with your own inner systems. Topics explored:The Three Body Problem of ConsciousnessBody, mind, and chiIgbo chi and the Socratic daimonionBenjamin Libet and free won’tDreams as nonlinear processingRetrocausality and the 4D block universePlacebo, nocebo, and beliefThe modern work trapConsciousness, sovereignty, and intuition Read the foundational essay:The Three-Body Problem of Consciousness on Mediumhttps://medium.com/@joli.artist/the-three-body-problem-of-consciousness-why-i-stopped-negotiating-with-my-own-intelligence-7bb0e302f847 Get the guidebook:So You’re Living in a Simulation: A Handbook for the Recently Sentienthttps://www.amazon.com/So-Youre-Living-Simulation-Handbook/dp/B0CCCMZXQH Join the newsletter:https://mailchi.mp/a8152eedd687/joliartist-newsletter #consciousness #simulationtheory #intuition #freewill #socrates #dreams #metaphysics #philosophy #spiritualawakening

Reality is stranger and more intelligent than the official story allows. In this episode of So You’re Living in a Simulation, Jo explores God as reality itself, the body as an interface for consciousness, non-human intelligence, UFO disclosure, ancestral religion, possession, women healers, Goddess theology, simulation theory, parallel universes, political theater, and fiction as an archive of forbidden truth. From Waymo self-driving cars to Witches, Midwives, and Nurses, Fallen, remote viewing, spiritual parasites, Christianity, colonization, and the intelligence of the Earth, this episode asks what happens when the boundary between “woo,” conspiracy, religion, science fiction, and accepted reality begins to collapse. #SimulationTheory #Consciousness #NonHumanIntelligence

You were taught that your brain is where intelligence lives. What if that is the trap? In this episode of So You’re Living in a Simulation, Jo argues that the brain is not the full source of consciousness, but a limiting interface: a biological filter that compresses a much larger intelligence into something the body can process.This is an episode about outer body intelligence: the part of you that knows before your rational mind can explain why. The warning signal. The gut feeling. The dream. The daemon. The chi. The higher self. The field awareness. The version of you that is not trapped inside the skull. Religious frameworks often turned the daemon into the demon. Materialist frameworks often turned intuition into irrationality. Both cut you off from guidance. But what if the intelligence you were taught to fear, dismiss, or explain away is actually part of you? Jo explores the brain as a receiver, filter, and limiter; the body as an intelligent system; intuition as an early warning mechanism; out of body experiences as access to outer body intelligence; attention as a reality shaping force; and red flags as system alerts you were trained to ignore. This episode is for anyone interested in simulation theory, consciousness, intuition, psi, body intelligence, daemon theory, chi, the higher self, multidimensional awareness, nervous system intelligence, spiritual intelligence, nonlinear time, and the hidden architecture of reality. You are not just a brain having thoughts. You are awareness moving through a body, with access to more intelligence than you were taught to believe. Watch more / read more: https://www.joliartist.com/portal #simulationtheory #consciousness #intuition

That opener was from the New York Times Style section framing, and I dropped it when switching registers because the Atlantic tends to lead with thesis rather than scene. But you’re right that it’s the stronger hook, and it translates. Here’s the revision with it restored at the top: On a flight back from London, the podcaster @joli.artist opened the Instagram profile of a man she had just started seeing. What she found, she says, was not a red flag exactly, but a timestamp: the precise moment, three years earlier, when he had become someone she could no longer be with. In her latest episode of So You’re Living in a Simulation, @joli.artist argues that compatibility is not a question of chemistry but of timing, and that the person you were going to love may have stopped being available to you years before you met them. She locates the exact moment a prior relationship rewired the man on her screen: the point at which openness became guardedness, and courtship became strategy. He was, on paper, a match. In practice, the match had expired. The episode builds from there into something more unsettling than a dating postmortem. @joli.artist’s framework is that human behavior is patterned the way an IQ test is patterned, 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, and that waiting for the final term of the sequence to arrive is a failure of intelligence, not a display of fairness. Applied to romance, it reads as discernment. Applied to predators, which is where the episode ultimately lands, it reads as survival. The flirtatious man who reappears at Christmas while partnered is not a puzzle. He is a solved equation, and continuing to engage is the thing that teaches him the equation works. What @joli.artist is describing, underneath the dating anecdotes, is a protective literacy. Pattern recognition as the thing that gets edited out of women when they are told to be open, to not judge, to give people a chance. The closing image is a cracked walking stick she tried to use anyway. The crack, she says, determines the blueprint. The question she leaves with the listener is whether you can read your own fractures clearly enough to stop them from writing your future.What we get into:00:00 Why "the one" is a scarcity myth and the math that proves it02:52 Compatibility has a time stamp, and timing changes everything04:12 What I found scrolling through his Instagram on a 10 hour flight from London09:37 The choices you're making right now are deciding your future compatibility11:51 Reality is math, and your brain was built to read the pattern19:14 How to become a probability walker and stop being surprised by people20:16 My marriage: the relationship was over the moment we met. It just took 11 years to see why26:13 The kids conversation and how a decision made at 15 already ended your relationship27:34 Janus, the double headed god, and the people walking forward with their heads facing back33:06 Human behavior is an IQ test. 1, 3, 5, 7, 9. What comes next?39:58 How to shut down a man who is in a relationship and still in your inbox44:20 The crack determines the blueprint. Everything that was going to break was always going to break there#Compatibility #DatingAdvice #Patterns #Probability #SimulationTheory #RelationshipAdvice #Timing #TraumaAndRelationships #PhilosophyPodcast #ConsciousnessAwakening #PatternMatching #Soulmates #JoliArtist #SoYoureLivingInASimulation

Before the calendar was rewritten, the spring equinox was the actual new year. And this new year, we start by getting the word right. We've been using the wrong word. And it's keeping us stuck.Narcissist implies someone who loves themselves too much. But the people destroying relationships, families, and communities aren't capable of love at all. They're predators. And the rest of us, the ones who grew up in chaotic households, who learned to read every room, who give too much and forgive too fast, have been trained without knowing it to move through life like prey. This episode is about changing that. Joli breaks down predator psychology, why empathy is often just trauma-coded hypervigilance, how to integrate your shadow self without losing your values, and why our society stopped holding anti-social people accountable and what that's costing all of us. Unfiltered. No gurus. Just a woman with a mic who's done being prey. So You're Living In a Simulation with Joli. #narcissist #springequinox2026 #mentalhealth

You’ve been told your whole life that being a good person is the goal. But what if that label is the very thing making you a target?In this episode I’m breaking down why defining yourself as “good” can open you up to exploitation, how narcissists and predators specifically target people who pride themselves on kindness, and why doing the “right” thing is almost never the same as doing the “good” thing.What we get into: ∙ (00:00) Whoever defines “good” defines you, and that’s the trap ∙ (03:13) How narcissists use victim stories and love bombing to get inside your category of “good person” ∙ (07:20) When “being good” means internalizing other people’s abuse as your own fault ∙ (18:43) Why morality makes intelligent people ignore their own instincts ∙ (33:38) Words as spells: how repetition creates belief without truth ∙ (42:07) Gods in your pocket, subjugated goddesses, and the inversion of powerThis isn’t about becoming cold or cruel. It’s about becoming conscious.If you’ve ever stayed too long, given too much, or silenced yourself because that’s what good people do, this one’s for you.••So You’re Living in a Simulation is independent and listener supported. Subscribe, share, and leave a comment. That’s how we keep going.••#VillainEra #ShadowWork #Narcissism #NarcissisticAbuse #LoveBombing #SimulationTheory #SelfEmpowerment #DualityIsBondage #PersonalGrowth #Boundaries #PhilosophyPodcast #ConsciousnessAwakening #JoliArtist #SoYoureLivingInASimulation

In this episode, @Joli.artist confronts the revelations emerging from the Epstein files and calls on listeners to reclaim their power in a world run by forces that depend on our collective silence and inaction. Joli dismantles the narrative that "nothing is going to happen," exposing it as deliberate psychological programming designed to keep people disempowered. She draws on evolutionary biology, the nature of cancer cells, and even goat farming to illustrate why antisocial elements must be removed from any functioning system, and why good people are not the exception but the biological norm.From the Milgram experiments to the French Revolution, Joli traces humanity's long history of exile as a survival mechanism, arguing that what we're witnessing today is no different. She challenges listeners to stop treating passivity as goodness, reject the "turn the other cheek" conditioning, and start putting points on the scoreboard for good, beginning with defending themselves. The episode builds toward a profound exploration of how perception shapes reality, drawing on the placebo and nocebo effects, Robert Anton Wilson's work, and the podcast's core thesis that we are living in a simulation that responds to what we hold in our minds. •• Earth Is Presently Sick. We Must Become the Immune System. https://medium.com/@joli.artist/earth-is-presently-sick-we-must-become-the-immune-system-5bde9e0d4ad3 •• Key Insights from this Episode: • The Scoreboard of Good vs Evil: Joli reframes daily life as a simulation where every act of courage or cowardice tips the scales, and doing nothing when you witness harm is a point scored for evil. • Be Good With Teeth: Drawing from her own experience, Joli argues that kindness without boundaries enables abuse to spread, and that true goodness requires the willingness to fight back. • Cancer Cell Theory of Evil: Pedophiles, predators, and narcissists are not just bad people; they are cancerous cells in the human organism that must be identified and removed for the body to survive. • The Mind as Weapon and Shield: From placebo effects to collective meditation reducing crime rates, Joli makes the case that your mind is the most powerful tool you have, and that it is actively being weaponized against you. • Bloom in Hell: In a world designed to exhaust and demoralize, your existence and your actions matter right now, not in a thousand years. Be beautiful in spite of the dystopia, because that beauty is what inspires others to wake up.

In this compelling talk, @Joli.artist explores why modern life often feels like a constant state of siege and how we can consciously reverse the decay of our mental and physical health. Drawing from recent experiences with a digital detox, stoic philosophy, and ancestral history, Joli challenges the traditional "pursuit of happiness," arguing instead for the strategic eradication of the things that cause us pain.  From the biological impact of "heart spikes" and cortisol to the inherited generational trauma of survivors, Joli examines how our environments and relationships physically reshape our brains and bodies. She introduces a powerful perspective on the Second Law of Thermodynamics, suggesting that human conscious awareness is the only force capable of reversing "emotional entropy" and building order out of chaos.  ••• Key Insights from this Talk: • The Biology of Attention: Joli discusses how constant attention-shifting on social media prevents the brain from forming the "deep, juicy grooves" required for memory and recall.  • The "One Strike" Pattern: She introduces a heuristic for identifying toxic dynamics early: if a disturbing behavior happens once, it is a pattern, and you are not obligated to wait years for it to worsen.  • Energetic Autonomy: Joli explores why being alone is often a healthier biological state than being in a "wrong" relationship that keeps the nervous system in a constant state of fight or flight.  • Mining Happiness: The talk describes the art of finding tangible, present moment joy like the color of hibiscus tea by becoming the organizing force in your own life.  • As Joli reminds us, nothing is life or death unless it is actually life or death. It is time to stop paying for problems with your time and health, and start prioritizing your peace.

Artists have been sold a lie: that you can’t create real work unless you’re broken. Pain sells. Trauma gets streams. Heartbreak goes viral. So the industry rewards artists who only create when they’re suffering, and punishes those who make art from healing, joy, or stability. But here’s what nobody talks about: when artists only document pain without pairing it with resolution, they’re not just expressing themselves. They’re programming audiences to expect relationships to fail, success to be traumatic, and healing to be impossible. Art isn’t neutral. It shapes how people see the world. And right now, most of what we’re creating is making the world uglier, not more bearable. This episode is a call to artists: You have more power than you realize. Your work reflect reality and also constructs it. So what are you building? Topics covered: • Why the music industry conditions artists to create only from pain • How gangster rap was weaponized against Black communities • The difference between processing pain and weaponizing it • Why creating beauty is rebellion, not escapism • How to turn lived experience into masterpieces, not just content This isn’t about toxic positivity or pretending pain doesn’t exist. It’s about refusing to let pain be the only thing worth creating from. Leave this world more beautiful than you found it. Full episode: So You’re Living in a Simulation podcast. https://joliartist.com/portal

We’ve been taught that pain requires a target. Someone hurt you, so you hurt them back. Someone triggers you, so you defend yourself. The cycle repeats until you’re chronically inflamed and physiologically worn down. But what if the problem is that you’re treating your nervous system like it has to fight every battle you’re invited to? Pain is information. Inflammation is a signal. That tightness in your chest when you get a certain kind of text message is your body reporting that something needs attention. Not retaliation. Attention. The culture trains you to look outward for resolution. Closure from the person who hurt you. Validation from the person who triggered you. Apologies, explanations, admissions of guilt. But none of that actually heals the physiological response you’re having in real time. None of it stops the cortisol. None of it regulates your nervous system. Self regulation means recognizing that lashing out when you’re in pain just adds another layer of damage. Knowing this, healing yourself first becomes structurally necessary. This episode covers why modern serial dating creates repeated chemical bereavement, how to redirect attack energy into healing energy, and why the “little you” inside deserves protection even when no one else is listening. Full episode: So You’re Living in a Simulation podcast. Available everywhere. https://www.joliartist.com/portal #selfregulation #nervousystem #trauma #moderndating #healing #inflammation #consciousness #mentalhealth