# Episode 355: The First Cause Is You

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Podcast: [The Alpha Male Coach Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-alpha-male-coach-podcast-1153446)
Published: 2026-03-19T18:33:02+00:00
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## Resource

There is a belief so deeply embedded in the human experience that almost no one ever questions it. It feels natural, logical, and undeniably true. And yet, it is the very illusion that keeps men reactive, blaming, and disconnected from their true power. That belief is this: your life is being caused by something outside of you. Your past. Your circumstances. Other people. In this episode, we dismantle that belief at its foundation. Most men operate from what can be called horizontal causality - the idea that life unfolds in a sequence across time, where one event causes another, and your current experience is the result of everything that came before it. It’s the lens through which men explain their emotions, their behaviors, and their lives. “I feel this way because of that.” “I am like this because of my past.” But when you slow down and look directly, something begins to break. Where is the past? You cannot touch it, see it, or experience it. It exists only as a thought in the present moment. The same is true of the future - it is nothing more than projection and imagination. Which means the entire structure of time - and the causality built upon it - is not what you think it is. From there, we move into a deeper understanding: vertical causality. Instead of asking what caused this in the past, we ask what is making this possible right now. This shift reveals that everything in your experience is being sustained in this moment by a deeper foundation - something that does not depend on anything else. A true first cause. And that first cause is not external. It is not an event, and it is not something that happened long ago. It is your awareness. Everything you experience - your thoughts, your emotions, your body, your perception of the world - appears within consciou…

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