Purpose Lab

"Since I'm very curious too, I started to study to find out, to learn about other pedagogies, always in search of a space that looks beyond the mind. Even those alternative pedagogies are oriented towards the child learning better, but not about their emotions, not about the spiritual. In that search, I went through many schools, many places, as if looking for something that would make me feel that the work I was doing was really what I had to do. It seems that every place I went, I took away different things and also understood different things about myself."

Founded by Alan Steinfeld, author of the #1 Amazon bestseller Making Contact: Preparing for the New Realities of Extraterrestrial Existence, this channel is your portal into UFO disclosure, ancient civilizations, consciousness evolution, and our place in the cosmos. Alan is the longest-running emcee at Contact in the Desert, the largest UFO conference in the world, and a regular host at major expos across the U.S. and Europe, expos at sea, and sacred land tours.

"What excites me the most is to open people up to new perceptions, to see the world a little differently than what their ordinary programming and cultural conditioning have trained them to see. That's why I call my show New Realities. When you start to see a little more of what's possible, new things open up for people in their lives. I've done my New Realities interview show since the 90s, about 30 years. That curiosity led me to people that I knew were original thinkers. When I first read an article by Bruce Lipton, I said, I've got to talk to this guy. He sat with me for three hours going over his whole thesis. When I met Nassim Haramein for the first time, I said, that's an original thinker. My show is not about disagreeing, it's about learning. When I interview people, it's like I want to know the universe that exists inside you."

Back even in my college days and in my young professional days, in my early 20s, I used to watch programs like Oprah, and I used to watch Remembering Your Spirit, which was a sort of a segment on Oprah. And I remember thinking, well, this is really all about understanding your own human potential. And I used to see her guests, and her guests had really found their purpose, and they were doing something magnificent in the world. And I thought this regularly, when am I going to be the one to take that leap and do what they're really meant to be doing?

Sometimes it's difficult to hear what your heart is telling you because we have so many ways to get distracted. One of the ways is letting go of all the things that you were taught it should be like this, it should be like this, it should be like this, to hold that, to say okay, that might be so, and what if it's not. And so the what if, and then from the positive, what if it's true. Before I started to realize there is so much more in the invisible that we don't see. When I met people who were saying something about that, I would say, well, what if it's true? And then something can open up. You don't always have to agree or believe it, but if you're asking, if you're curious, if you feel some curiosity or feel something coming, you can say, what if, let me explore. There's always a choice you can make, even if it's not the right choice. So that curiosity, the what if, what if it's true, are things that really help me figure out what's distracting me and what's keeping me there, and to ask advice, to find people or ways, which don't only need to be people, they can also be coincidences.

I was in my senior year of a bachelor's degree in physics at Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh. And I came out of the student union after lunch to be greeted by this really large hand-painted sign where every letter was a slightly different color, and it said Dr. Joe Kamiya will talk on brain waves and consciousness. I didn't have a class that hour, so I went. I was the only one from the engineering college that was there. And so Dr. Kamiya was talking about his incredible work. And so there's Joe Kamiya saying, oh well, these high states of consciousness have high alpha. So the rest of my senior year, every spare minute was spent in the library learning everything I could. I had this big stack of reprints, and I had read through that three times before I graduated, at which point I jumped on my Triumph motorcycle and headed for San Francisco to hang out with Joe Kamiya.

I started asking questions, because questions empower you. Anything else disempowers you. Being in the question is what brings awareness of the direction that is in the highest and best and creates the most benevolent outcome for them. That is a grand slam. Being in the question is one of the platforms I stand on. When you are in the question, you are co creating with the molecules of consciousness. We command what we would like to have, because commanding is co creating, co mingling, and collaborating. Demanding is destroying. Being in the question removes judgment, separation, decision, calculation, and computation. That is what you were taught, to figure it out, find the right answer, make a good choice, good or bad, right or wrong. That is polarity. That is the box. We are taking the box apart and going with flow. What would be true for you? What is not true for you? What is a different possibility? What else is available? What are you not willing to acknowledge that, if you did, would create a new reality? It is the questions that create.

My journey, I think probably like a lot of people, has been one where I didn't know where I was going until I got there. I've always been fascinated by science and that curiosity, that wanting to find out about nature, not taking anyone's word for it, not reading it in a book, just going and trying something out and seeing what happens. I was so excited by that idea as a child and as a student. I've always been drawn as well to things in science that don't make sense, those little things that everyone tends to dismiss because they don't really understand them, like the placebo effect, for example. For me, I'm like, well, that's really interesting. Why does that work? When does that work? Does that work for everything? Or hypnosis is another one of those things that some people are like, well, it's a bit quirky. We don't really understand what's going on. For me, I was like, I think that when something doesn't make sense, it's a sign that we might have got something quite fundamentally wrong in how we're understanding the world. There are these doorways into something that could be so much more fundamental.

As I arrived in Portugal and started to settle down, I was starting a new innovation consultancy and opening up to new ideas. I was finding my way into regeneration. I had been in a sustainability context and realized that it did not feel quite right. I started going to ecstatic dances, being in eco communities, co living, and seeing different ways people wanted to live. A little while ago, someone told me we've misappropriated the word weird. It used to mean uniqueness, individuality, and a kind of magical, mystical sense. We should all get a bit more weird, enjoy our diversity, experiment in how we express ourselves, and celebrate who we really are and want to be in each other. The more space we create earlier on, when raising children and teenagers, the more we can encourage them to listen and follow what excites them, and to have space to experiment, to get things wrong, and to try things out. Encouraging risk and experimentation enables people to find their own path.

I've got this big sense of adventure. I don't know what it is about me. I'm always seeking dopamine and I always want to know what's next. So that drives me and propels me to say, I'll give that a go and I'll feed it back to anyone who's interested. After battling addiction and losing her health, Davinia dove into the science of the body, discovering how food, light, hormones, and a mindset can completely rewire a life.

I was interested in accessing deeper wisdom about myself, and I was just submerged into many different systems for many years, over a decade of studying very deeply different systems to understand human personality and human behavior. So, be open and receptive. Find a good system, a good teacher, a good mentor, and then take steps. There are many different systems out there and it's really fascinating once you see the same message displayed in all the systems. You really know there is no shadow of doubt.

As I arrived in Portugal and started to settle down, I was starting a new innovation consultancy and opening up to new ideas. I was finding my way into regeneration. I had been in a sustainability context and realized that it did not feel quite right. I started going to ecstatic dances, being in eco communities, co living, and seeing different ways people wanted to live. A little while ago, someone told me we've misappropriated the word weird. It used to mean uniqueness, individuality, and a kind of magical, mystical sense. We should all get a bit more weird, enjoy our diversity, experiment in how we express ourselves, and celebrate who we really are and want to be in each other. The more space we create earlier on, when raising children and teenagers, the more we can encourage them to listen and follow what excites them, and to have space to experiment, to get things wrong, and to try things out. Encouraging risk and experimentation enables people to find their own path.

I'm a shameless sharer. That's my passion and purpose. I love gathering knowledge, finding truths, and sharing them with people, and sharing people with people. All my life, I've been interested in searching for knowledge. There's a truth that I was trying to find. I knew something was out there somewhere, but I thought my life was about me and the ambitions that I had.

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I don't think there was ever a moment where I said, 'Oh, this is what I want to do.' As a kid, I was always interested in Indiana Jones movies. I felt a pull toward archaeology and the spiritual aspects interlaced through the franchise films. In addition to that, I was interested in business and international travel. I was interested in music, I was a musician as well. I was interested in medicine, physics, chemistry, and engineering. These are all things I expressed in some way throughout my career. The diversity of the things I do has been one of the most fun aspects of my work because I am never bored. What I found when I started filing all these patents, and I am close to having 100 patents now, is that the innovations were coming because I took concepts from one area and applied them to entirely new areas where they had not been applied before. Applied mathematics is geometry, applied geometry is physics, applied physics is chemistry, applied chemistry is biology, applied biology is psychology, applied psychology is sociology, applied sociology is back to philosophy, and applied philosophy is back to mathematics. It is one big circle. We artificially separate it all out and teach it as if these things shall never meet. The only thing that can solve complex problems is greater simplicity.

I begin to be the student and I begin to look at the world as an opportunity to learn, from nutrition, from everything that I have a desire to do, whether it be relationships. I begin to put formulas together to realize and search out masters who have presented themselves as such, and be the student and learn from them and learn from my own mistakes and put it together and I've seen myself grow tremendously. Mastery comes through repetition. It's not just doing it to do it. It's asking, how can I be more efficient? How can I be better? How can I be a master at what I'm doing? In life, I feel we have the opportunity to be here for what we have problems. Well, we learn to solve it. We learn to evolve with it. We learn to take advantage of this opportunity of being in nature, learning how the medicines, how the universe, if you believe in the higher power, that's presented things from the medicines on the planet to take advantage of, and I begin to follow that lead and be a student and learn.

I've lived internationally in Italy, Germany, Spain, England, and the Netherlands. Experiencing those cultures helped me see parallels and understand that this is part of the human condition: irrespective of cultural origin, people have a shared need to be seen, supported, and connected. In indigenous cultures, tribes had a chieftain, a shaman, and other categories represented, including wisdom keepers and two-spirited people, who were highly valued for balancing masculine and feminine energies. Children would learn from two-spirited people to better understand that balance. We've discarded much of that knowledge. Societies struggle to evolve because they haven't integrated these universal, effective principles.

If there is anything I want to say to you, it is to remain open. Open in your heart, open in your mind, open in your soul. When our heart experiences that we can manifest anything, anything becomes possible. We need to create new models to help people find themselves and at least stay curious. If everyone stays curious and asks questions, they can find answers on their path. When you're educating a population to not be curious, to learn math and physics, but without the deeper questions on what it all means, then you're raising a world that is designed to help you achieve your goals, work for the corporate world, and not be independent, entrepreneurial, or think outside of the box. We are trained to follow the path, the certainty, which is an illusion. It's not real.

I know when somebody's awake because they have curiosity in their eyes. They're living to learn. Norman Lear, who's passed but was a great icon of TV, said to me at, I think, 100 years old, you can always learn something from anyone. That's how you know people are really present instead of 'Oh, I've got this,' or 'No, I have no idea. Let's find out.' Being present for me as an astrologer, I have a Taurus moon, so I know you by how I feel inside. It's an experience, not a concept. When I'm with you and truly present, I feel relaxed, warm, and open. My heart expands. I'm curious, interested, and engaged. When I'm not present, I feel dead, cranky, distracted, my knee hurts, and I'm not really listening.

When you're curious and open, and remember what you used to love as a kid, and you're in touch with your heart and know what brings you joy, you can nicely move into the next flowing state. Whatever makes you feel timeless, whatever puts you in a position where you don't even know that time has passed, is probably going to be a passion for you and give you purpose. So you have to notice what you notice, but it means you have to be present and curious your whole life. Life is like a smorgasbord. It's like a treasure hunt. When you put your attention on positive things and the feeling that life really is a treasure hunt, you're always looking for that opening, something you're going to love, notice, and want to be involved in, whether that's a political party, helping a school, or going to Africa and setting up fresh water for people who don't have it, digging wells, whatever. I had multiple passions because I had a lot of curiosity. I never focused on one thing. I focused on one thing at a time, but I had multiple passions. There are just so many things you get passionate about, then you want to know more and more. Then you mix them all together and decide what you're going to use at any given point in time to help someone who needs it.

"My purpose started, my passion started very soon. I would say when I was three to six years old. I was very intrigued by all of the questions that I could not find answers to from family, church, or school. I had questions like, what happens when we die. Are we alone in the universe. What about all this paranormal, that apparently some humans have, others do not. So I went into a huge pilgrimage. Since I was six, started at three, but when I was six and able to speak a little bit better, I started the quest. At twelve, I started finding people. I was led, I was able to speak to strangers. I started gathering more information that I could not get beyond the barrier of my family, friends, and schools."

"I was living in LA, and I was in my 20s. I was sitting out back, looking up at the sky. I remember thinking, there's so much out there I don't know. People were like, come back in the house, we're doing shots. I thought, I want to be in a place where I can expand. I had all these feelings. I want to discover more, I want to go deeper, I want to figure more things out. Those moments just kept happening. Every time that I spent too much time being normal, I'd have another moment where I'm like, God, there's just so much out there I must know."

"When I got there, I actually tried all these different things. I tried a production design class, cinematography, art direction, all these creative aspects. Because I was so creative, I knew I wanted to do something with my hands, something more hands-on, but nothing felt like a good fit. The longer I went into my freshman year, the more I realized I hadn't found my thing. What actually made it click was when I found animation."

"We need to move forward with an understanding of how we are cosmic beings. We need to understand that we are multidimensional beings, and that energy really helps us to allow this planet to change. Maybe we didn't even evolve exclusively on this planet. Maybe we're part of the cosmos. Is that fearful for some people, maybe yes. But really, it's the reality that science is teaching us."

I'm passionate about, honestly, a lot of things. For example, I'm very passionate about quantum physics, which is basically the science that talks about the smallest things, things at the atomic and subatomic levels. I'm also very passionate about music. Really, my passion is the art of cinema. Also, being a YouTuber interests me a lot because, besides video games, I really enjoy making anything related to recording, making videos, shorts, editing, uploading to YouTube. When one feels signs of having found something they really like, something they are passionate about, something that makes them feel like they are in another universe, something they enjoy talking about. For example, quantum physics. The problem is that it is very difficult to find someone to talk to. It's a subject that is super eccentric, but when you found me, I became very interested in quantum physics.

I began the quest, so to speak, the seeking part of the journey of my life experience, asking, there must be more. What is my purpose? Why am I even here? These kinds of questions. The discovery of my purpose was, well, quite a journey, to be quite frank with you. Kind of like moving through the depths of hell in some ways, moving to the exhilaration of just looking out over a beautiful mountain landscape.

"For very young people, I say it does not matter if you do not yet have a wealth of experience. Try different things, because part of the delight and joy of life is that we have the freedom to try. You will eventually take a lot of turns, and that is okay. That is the whole purpose of life, experiment with it. Do tiny experiments multiple times, and you will start hearing or seeing that a certain direction seems to call on you. You will know almost instantly that certain types of jobs, purposes, or locations are not your thing. Do not give up and do not be dispirited. You are not failing, you are actually succeeding."

About the age of ten, I had a lot of questions, and I began to ask questions like, why is there something instead of nothing, what is really the meaning, the purpose of life, who is God. I got the catechism, but really, who is God. The answers that I got back from the people, the adults who were important in my life, were very disconcerting, because even at that early age I realized that what they were sharing with me was not coming from the depth of their own experience. It was what they believed, what they heard, what they read, what they were taught. It was really the first moment of liberation for a young mind and heart, because I thought to myself, surely these things can be known. What kind of a creator God would embody us into human existence without having the opportunity of knowing what, why, and how. When I realized that nobody knew, it freed me up to go on my own journey and start inquiring from the universe itself.