A Whole New Human: A Journey Beyond Self-Improvement into Soul Emergence – An Interview with Derek Rydall

What if everything you’re striving to become is already within you—whole, complete, and waiting to emerge?

For Derek Rydall, a near-death experience in a coral reef became the catalyst for a radical awakening—one that shattered his identity, rewired his purpose, and revealed a deeper truth about human potential. A former actor turned spiritual teacher, Derek discovered that we’re not here to fix ourselves, but to remember who we already are. From the pain of addiction and loss to mystical downloads and prophetic insight, his journey became a living embodiment of what he now calls The Law of Emergence.

In this conversation, Derek shares how to discern your authentic self from societal conditioning, why surrender is the most powerful force for transformation, and how to navigate the AI revolution without losing your humanity. With clarity, depth, and humility, he invites us into a future where purpose is essential, consciousness is our greatest technology, and A Whole New Human is not just an ideal—but a necessary evolution.

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For those who don’t know your story, I’d love for you to dive into those two moments where you’ve said you almost died. What were those experiences like for you? What did they reveal to you about your life?

Derek Rydall: Yeah—very much so. It was a 180-degree turn.

Like many people, I spent years in self-improvement, trying to attract, achieve, fix my childhood, and figure it all out. What’s wrong with me? What’s broken in me? That was the constant question—so I could fix it. And after years of therapy and self-help, the only thing I’d improved was my ability to describe why my life was so screwed up.

I could tell you, “When I was 10, my dad looked at my report card—it was all A’s and one B—and said, ‘What’s with the B, son?’” Well, that messed me up.

We must have had the same dad.

Derek Rydall: I got incredibly frustrated. Self-improvement started to feel like trying to dig myself out of a hole—bad strategy. You just get deeper. Eventually, I spiraled into drugs and alcohol. I overdosed. It was serious. I almost died.

When I came to in the emergency room, with the IV still in my arm, the doctor looked at me and said, “You’re really lucky to be alive.” And I didn’t feel lucky. I didn’t understand how all of my self-improvement had landed me there. So I thought, I just need to work harder, or maybe smarter—learn how to attract better. So I doubled down on all of it.

For a little while, things got better. I even booked a movie—I was an actor back then—and I flew to Jamaica to film. But everything fell apart again. Most of the cast was fired. The whole movie had to be redone. There were on-set politics. I was like, Really? After all of this, it’s happening again?

I remember praying. I went diving in a coral reef and I prayed, “God, help me get lost from everything above.” Well, be careful what you pray for.

I got lost and trapped inside what looked like an underwater booby-trap tomb—something straight out of Indiana Jones. Fire coral on all sides. Spiked coral underneath me. If I moved in any direction, I’d be skewered. I was stuck. No one knew I was there. And then it started getting dark.

I prayed again, begging, “God, if you get me out of this, I swear I’ll go to church on Sunday.” But God wasn’t playing Let’s Make a Deal that day.

I went through every emotion—terror, anger, regret. It felt like a whole life review: all the mistakes, all the stupidity. Then I dropped into this deep sadness and grief. And that’s when I knew—I wasn’t going to make it out. Not just I hope I do—I knew I was going to die.

All that was left was surrender. True, unconditional surrender. Not “I’ll surrender so that…”—just surrender. And in that moment, something happened. There was a flash of light. And I saw the self I’d been trying to fix, change, heal, and improve. And I realized—he was a fiction. A figment of imagination. An amalgamation of peer pressure, parental fantasy, and societal conditioning. And no matter what I did, he’d never be enough.

At the same time, I sensed another self—one that had never been damaged, so didn’t need healing. One that was already whole, already complete, and couldn’t be improved upon.

Now, mind you, this was all a flash. I was still underwater. But then, the next thing I remember, I was out of the coral trap. Somehow, I was standing on a small piece of coral just big enough to hold me. I looked down into the maze I had been trapped in—and I saw the exit. It had always been there. Just a few inches away. I couldn’t see it before.

That night, I had a profound experience in my hotel room. I was on my knees, and it was like some hand reached in and pulled out years—maybe lifetimes—of grief. I fell forward and was caught. I don’t share this part often, but I think your audience can receive it: something held me. It was as if a lifetime of emotional poisoning was being purged. And after that, I fell asleep.

When I left that movie, I left everything. I went and became a monk.

How long did that last?

Derek Rydall: Not very long. At least not in a monastery. I did silent retreats and fasting. But after a week or two, I lost it. I broke into the monk’s kitchen in the middle of the night—just barely opened the fridge door so the light wouldn’t go on. I can still see the little light bulb glowing. I was shoveling down whatever I could find—bird food, cabbage—who knows.

Back in my little cell, I got violently sick. Then I had what became my first in a long line of out-of-body experiences. I was floating above the monastery, being tormented by spirits—probably the monks yelling, Get out of here, kid. You don’t belong here!

So I packed up and ran—screaming out of the monastery. But then I cloistered myself in my apartment. Got rid of everything—TV, books, media. I kept just a few sacred texts—some Buddhist writings, the Bible—and I went on an inner retreat for the next couple of years.

How old were you at the time?

Derek Rydall: I was in my 20s—so just a few years ago.

And after all that happened, what came next? What was the deeper understanding that began to emerge for you?

Derek Rydall: So I went on this journey to understand what had happened to me. Something dramatic had broken open in my life—Humpty Dumpty had fallen off the wall, and I couldn’t put him back together again. There was no going back. There was only going inward—and maybe forward.

What I eventually discovered, and what I later called the Law of Emergence, was this deeper truth: the self I had been trying to fix was already perfect. I began to see it everywhere in nature. Every seed has a pattern. The acorn doesn’t improve itself into an oak tree. It doesn’t attract an oak tree or achieve oakhood. It’s not an empty shell that gathers materials to build an oak. The oak is already there, encoded in its pattern.

In the quantum field, it exists in its entirety—as frequency. Just like your favorite music is playing right now, but you have to know what station it’s on. You have to tune in to hear it. The moment you do, the music becomes manifest. It wasn’t somewhere else. It was here all along.

Where was the music? Right here.
Where was the oak tree? Right here.

When they asked Jesus, “When is heaven going to come?” he basically said, It’s not going to come the way you think. Oy vey—how many times do I have to tell you? It’s already here. But you’re using your eyes, so you can’t see it. You’re using your ears, so you can’t hear it. You’re judging by appearances, and you’re missing it.

Instead, judge righteous judgment. Use spiritual discernment. The kingdom is here. It’s now. That is the good news.

Once I caught that, it was like the scriptures came alive. I’d read the Bible before, and it felt like nonsense. I’d throw it across the room or use it as a doorstop. But suddenly I could read it and go, “Oh yeah, I get it. Yep. Yep.” Same with Buddha. Same with all of it.

They were all saying the same thing:
There is a reality.
It’s already done.
It’s already whole.
It’s already complete.

All of our effort to get it—to make it happen, even to attract it—creates static. It creates resistance to the natural process of emergence. When we come into alignment with who we are—when we stand in integrity with what we’re truly made of and made for—then that truth begins to emerge.

Over the next 12 to 18 months, that’s exactly what happened. My life began to unfold. I went from being broke, broken, suicidal—living in a one-room apartment, eating mac and cheese I could barely afford—to suddenly watching my purpose emerge. Business, finances, love… everything I’d been trying to chase began to arrive when I made space and made it welcome.

It wasn’t always easy, but that was the first flush of growth from the pattern within me. And I’ve been deepening into that understanding ever since.

At what point did you sense that you were called to share or teach these principles to others? How did that emerge in your life?

Derek Rydall: That’s a great question, because I never saw it coming. I was an actor—an artist. But I was always two things: a creator and a seeker. I wanted to know the nature of life. Even as a kid, I believed there was more to life than meets the eye.

I was fascinated by different religions. I wanted to know everyone’s beliefs. And I had these moments with friends where this deep love would move through me—I’d sort of “love bomb” them. And they didn’t always like it! They’d be like, “Dude, back off. Why are you loving on me so hard?”

But that longing to know truth—to know reality, to know myself-that was always there. And then I’d create something from it: art, music, whatever form it took.

But I never imagined teaching. I actually quit high school early to get out of it. I hated the idea of teaching. And writing books? That sounded like being stuck back in English class.

So it was shocking when all this wisdom started moving through me—and I wasn’t even trying. People just started asking, “What’s going on with you? Something’s changed.” And I found the truth being pulled out of me.

That’s how the Law of Emergence began to take form. I just started sharing it. And very quickly, it began catching fire. I thought, Okay, I guess this is where I’m going now.

That’s how it unfolded.

How did you first begin to share some of these principles? In what context did they start to come through?

Derek Rydall: Honestly, it happened mostly by accident. Spontaneously. I’d be in an airport, in an elevator, sitting somewhere—and suddenly, someone would open up and share their life story with me. And I’d just find myself saying something that shifted something in them.

At the same time, I was also having these mystical experiences—lots of dreams with Jesus, dreams about healing people. It was as if I was receiving a lot of spiritual “attention,” so to speak.

I remember one time, my sister had a terrible headache. I could see it. I put my hands out, and something just moved through me. She looked at me and said, “What did you just do? The headache’s gone.” I was like, “I don’t know. Want to go play board games?”

Another time, my mom was terrified that I’d joined a cult. I’d started going to Agape, the spiritual center founded by Michael Beckwith—who became a dear mentor of mine—and everyone around me was afraid. My mom was scared. My friends had started to distance themselves. My brother thought I’d either had a lobotomy or gone off the deep end on Jesus.

She was on the phone with me one day, having another terrible headache. I told her, “I’m going to do some work for you, Mom,” and I hung up. I dropped into this energy—just tuned into something—and a few minutes later, she called me back and said, “What did you do? The room started spinning, and suddenly all the pain was gone.”

Not long after that, she flew back home. I picked her up at the airport and took her to Agape. She’s been on her spiritual path ever since—and even ended up working with me.

So at first, it all came out spontaneously. But eventually, I caught on. I began offering small workshops—some at Agape, some at other places. And again, it started to grow. Little by little, I was still holding onto that part of me that wanted to be an actor and artist. I didn’t want to get too spiritual. There was this belief that you had to suffer to create good art, right? If I was totally healed, maybe I wouldn’t have anything left to say.

But the calling kept pulling me. It was as if God was working behind my back while I was busy with other things. Then one day, I looked up, and I had a community. I had books. I had a body of work. And I thought, Okay… I guess there’s really something happening here.

So many more steps and shifts probably unfolded after that. But what’s the core idea, the heart of the message, that still drives your work today?

Derek Rydall: The core idea is this—and I believe it’s something you’ll see if you study all the great teachings: life is already done. I don’t mean your life experience—I mean Life itself. The essence. The design.

Whether you call it God, the Christ, the Buddha Mind, the Atman, the Tao—whatever language you use—the message is the same. In the beginning, God created everything. And everything that was created was made with the Word. It was good. It was done.

Now, if you look at the second book of Genesis, it speaks of the human creation—our journey. That’s the unfoldment of the divine pattern through the perception of an individual consciousness. And because that consciousness is evolving, our experience of the pattern is often distorted or limited.

The rest of the Bible, in a way, is the story of the unfolding of our mental concept of reality—and how we eventually have to let go of those concepts. That’s what the apocalypse means: it’s not destruction. It’s revelation. The word “apocalypse” means “that which was hidden is revealed.”

Armageddon isn’t the end of the world—it’s the end of our concepts of the world. It’s the destruction of false perceptions. And what emerges after that is the real pattern. The truth of who and what we are begins to rise and take form in our lives.

And again, if you study the teachings of Buddha, or any of the great masters, they all point to this.

In your book entitled Emergence: Seven Steps for Radical Life Change, you describe this as Stage One: “See the Completed Vision.” In practical terms, what does that mean for our everyday lives? How do we begin to apply it?

Derek Rydall: Absolutely. I tend to start by going pretty high up—30,000 feet—so people can begin to understand that you’re not experiencing reality; you’re experiencing your concept of reality: your beliefs, your stories, your conditioning.

The truth is, there’s a pattern within you that the world didn’t give you—and it can’t take it away. That pattern already contains the blueprint and the mechanics for your life’s fulfillment. But we’ve been taught that we’re these empty shells who have to go out, get the pieces, and build a life.

What I discovered—and what I believe Jesus was pointing to when he said, “Take no thought for your life”—is that the more we try to make it happen, the more we disconnect. Instead, we’re meant to seek first the kingdom, which is that connection to our true nature.

So step one is this: know thyself. That’s what the Oracle of Delphi said. You have to know yourself to be yourself. And if you’re not being your true self, you’re like a branch cut off from the tree—or an acorn trying to grow into an apple tree. You won’t have the support of life because you’re living in an illusion. And most of us are, at least to some extent.

So I take people on a journey of reconnecting with their original design—what I sometimes call the “factory settings.” We go beneath the layers of conditioning, beneath the peer pressure, parental fantasy, and societal expectations to get to: What is in me that no one else created—not even me?

And once you start to get even a glimpse of that—your real pattern, your divine idea, your soul’s seed code—you begin to see the clues all around you. It’s like one of those “Where’s Waldo?” puzzles or hidden object games from childhood. Your life is full of signals. Some of them show up as pain (because the pain pushes until the vision pulls). Others show up as curiosity and inspiration—those seemingly random obsessions that just light you up for no logical reason.

That’s step one: See the completed vision. Know who and what you truly are, and what you’re made for.

And once we know what kind of seed we are… then what?

Derek Rydall: That brings us to Step Two: Create the congruent conditions. Just like any seed, once you know what it is, you can provide the proper environment.

Suppose it’s an apple seed or an orchid, that tells you something. Some plants need more shade. Some need more sun. Some need more water. And if you get it wrong—if you give full sun to something that needs shade—it won’t thrive. It might even die.

It’s the same with us. Once you begin to know your true nature, you have to cultivate the soil of your soul. You have to design a way of life—from the inside out—that supports the emergence of your authentic self.

And here’s the thing: we do this naturally as children. We’re instinctively drawn to the people, places, and conditions that match us—until the world tells us, “No, that’s wrong.” Maybe we didn’t want Aunt Julie to hold us because she smelled like fruitcake, or maybe we just wanted to play in the dirt, but Mom insisted we read. Or vice versa—maybe we wanted to read and were told to work in the garage.

Eventually, we get pulled off our radar. We lose ourselves. We build a false self to survive, to belong, to keep up with the Joneses.

So now, the journey is to return. To build conditions that are congruent with our seed pattern. When you do that, you’re no longer a house divided. Your thinking, your speaking, your choices, your schedule, your money, your conversations—all of it begins to align with the truth of who you are. That alignment starts the emergence.

And step three? What’s next after that alignment begins?

Derek Rydall: Step three is what I call the Quantum Plan. This is where we bring structure and intentionality to the process.

See, creation requires constraint. You can’t just try to be all the things, in any order you want. Nature follows patterns. Sequences. There’s a right order. So part of this step is helping people get clear on what really matters—and then organizing their life around that.

Now, some people over-plan, of course. But for most, “plan” is a four-letter word. They may have a dozen goals, but their schedule, their energy, and their attention don’t reflect their true priorities. This step involves refining your plan to reflect your actual pattern. When you do that—even just the first three steps—your life starts to shift.

And then something else happens…

All the resistance shows up. The fears, the doubts, the old stories. And that leads into the next step, which I think is called Act As If—and it’s where my Awakened Wealth work took shape.

And what’s the heart of that?

Derek Rydall: It’s the understanding that, because it’s already in you, whatever seems to be missing from your life is actually what you’re not giving. It’s what you’re not expressing.

The Gospel of Thomas says it perfectly:

“If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you.
If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.”

So now you realize—you don’t have to wait. You don’t have to wait for the world to change or for anyone else to change. You have to be the change you’re waiting for.

If your purpose includes love, then open the valve and give love. If it’s about inspiration, joy, creativity—then start giving those things. Express what’s within you.

Another way to think about it is this: You pull your future self forward. That version of you you’ve been chasing isn’t “out there”—it’s in you, waiting to emerge. And when you live from that place, life responds. Your world opens up. There’s more abundance, more flow, more opportunity—not because it was missing, but because now you’re the one circulating it.

You become the source.
The world simply becomes your channel.

When you talk about the pattern within us, and how much of our identity comes from conditioning or parental influence, how do we begin to distinguish between that conditioning and our authentic desires—our true passion and purpose?

Derek Rydall: Honestly, we could teach a whole week-long program just on that question. And I do, actually. But let me start here: it’s not about getting it perfect.

This is one of the most common questions I hear, and it often shows up as: “How do I know if it’s my ego or my spirit? How do I know if it’s my fear or my truth?” And the first thing I tell people is—you can’t always know. Not perfectly. At least not at first.

What you can do is your best. You look for the real desire. The word “desire” comes from de-sire—of the sire, or the stars. It doesn’t mean something out there that you want to get. It means something inside you is trying to come out—you’re pregnant with it.

So when you feel that burning desire, that nudge, that spark—it’s like the baby kicking. And the only way to really understand what that feels like in you is to run the experiment. You feel the pull, you take the step, and then you look back and notice: How did that feel? What unfolded? Did it feel aligned?

Over time, you begin to build an internal reference system. You start to recognize what your inner “instrument panel” sounds and feels like when you’re following the truth.

It’s like learning to walk. A baby doesn’t ask, “How do I walk?” They just get up and fall. Eventually, they catch themselves while falling, and that’s called walking. Same with this. You learn by experimenting. You fail. You fall. And little by little, you learn how to move in alignment with your truth.

So it’s really about building trust with yourself, through experience?

Derek Rydall: Exactly. And here’s something else that helps: when you touch something that’s real, there’s a certain quality to it.

Even if fear is present—fear of judgment, failure, not being enough—there’s still this subtle sense of expansion underneath. That’s the signal.

So maybe you say to yourself, “If I’m honest, I really want to write this book.” And instantly, the fear kicks in—What if I’m not good enough? What if I fail? What if I get judged? But underneath all that static, if you get still, there’s a quiet pulse saying, Yes. This is true. This matters.

It’s like there’s this little flower trying to grow, but it’s getting choked by weeds. You have to learn to feel past the weeds, to feel the aliveness underneath.

Now, there’s nuance here. Sometimes you might only feel the contraction—because stepping into your truth often requires change, which triggers the ego to resist. The ego wants to protect you from the unknown by keeping you in your old map of reality. But if you tune in a little more closely, you’ll notice that still, small voice beneath the fear.

It’s like, “Yes… I want this.”
Then fear says, “No—it’s stupid. You’ll fail. You’ll die.”
And the truth whispers again, “But yes… I really want this.”

So it’s about learning to tune your inner ear.

Derek Rydall: Yes. And like anything, you get better with practice. And sometimes you can’t hear it at all—and that’s okay. That just means it’s time to dig a deeper well.

This is why the know thyself journey is both the first step and the forever practice. The more you know yourself—your values, your essence, your true desires—the more clearly you can distinguish:

This is mine.
This is my dad’s voice.
This is a collective belief.
This is fear.
This is the truth.

And I teach people tools and processes to help them untangle that—to discern and realign with what’s authentically theirs.

You have a brand new book coming out in January 2026 called A Whole New Human. Tell us more about this new work.

Derek Rydall: Like everything else in my life, I never planned to be a teacher, a coach, or a writer. But this book began with a very specific and, honestly, unsettling experience. It was before COVID hit, and for the first time, I felt what I would call a prophetic feeling. It wasn’t just inspiration—it was darker. It was expansive and foreboding. There is such a thing as dark inspiration.

I started telling people, “Something big is coming. It’s going to be rough. Get your life in order. Slow down. Simplify.” Most people thought I was being dramatic—Chicken Little. But I felt it coming. And then, of course, COVID hit, and the world changed.

That same kind of download happened again several years ago—long before AI and ChatGPT hit the mainstream. I had been talking about it as far back as six or seven years ago, but this particular moment came during a meditation. A voice came through and said:

“Build an ark.
The flood is coming.”

And it grabbed me.

It showed me a vision of the complete transformation of the world. And honestly, I thought, Why me? Why are you telling me this?

I used to be into tech as a kid. I was a programmer. I wanted to be a neuroscientist. So I have the background—but still, I was surprised by how clear and urgent this message was.

It showed me how the rise of AI and superintelligence—and how deeply it’s already being embedded in our daily lives—is going to change us. And the dangerous part? Most people won’t even notice it happening.

With every new technology, we outsource a part of ourselves. And over time, we lose it.

We’ve already lost certain cognitive and spatial abilities. Think about what happened with the wheel: we stopped walking as much. Then came cars, Amazon, and GPS. We don’t even think about direction anymore.

Social media has eroded our attention, our connection, and our communication.

So I began researching what this vision was showing me, and sure enough—there’s a clear trend of diminishing human capabilities. What’s coming with AI isn’t just another industrial revolution. It’s replacing what we thought was uniquely ours: intelligence, creativity, communication.

And here’s the thing: I’m not anti-technology. I love it. But I saw clearly that we’ve got it backwards.

We’re trying to create a superintelligence, but in doing so, we’re outsourcing our mind, our soul. We’re becoming like the characters in WALL-E, just floating along, disconnected.

But we are the real superintelligence.

We created AI, and we are the source. Our consciousness is the original AI.
Call it: Ancient Intelligence.
Ancestral Intelligence.
Authentic Intelligence.
Even… Angelic Intelligence.

Our brains are the true large language model. We’ve been gathering data from the quantum field for eons, building inner models of reality. That is the simulation we already live in.

And now we’re about to build another one inside that… which could disconnect us further from our real destiny.

That’s what A Whole New Human is about.

It’s about reclaiming that destiny. Yes, use the technology—but let it reveal what’s already within us. Use it to understand our own divine design.

If you study the ancients, you’ll find they were tapping into atomic theory, string theory, and energy medicine—without external tech. That knowledge came from within. They accessed it through the superconscious, through spiritual intelligence.

We still have that capacity. But instead of investing in our large language model—our consciousness—we’re pouring billions into artificial ones.

So this book is a call. A movement. A roadmap. It’s about how our humanity is at risk, and how we can reclaim it, how we’re on the verge of cutting ourselves off from the inner seed pattern that wants to emerge.

And what I’ve seen is that when humans get close to truth, they tend to project it outward—as if it’s something outside of us.

The invention of the wheel, of travel, of planes and trains… It’s all just an expression of the truth that our consciousness is omnipresent. Our soul is not bound by time or space.

People might be watching or listening to this interview from all over the world—and right now, my consciousness is present with all of them. The technology is revealing that truth—not giving it to us.

We forget that.
We think it’s the tech that’s making us connected.
But the truth is, it’s just mirroring the boundless nature of consciousness itself.

All expressions of power are just relative glimpses of the infinite perfection we truly are. We are omnipotent—all power.

And that’s what I could see. We have this opportunity to use everything happening now—especially the rise of AI—as a catalyst for a quantum leap into our true potential, which we’ve only just begun to tap. There’s evidence of it throughout history, but we’ve barely scratched the surface.

So on one level, A Whole New Human is about that—how to activate the higher potentials already within us.

But on another level, it’s also about the very real, practical disruption we’re facing. AI is already eliminating jobs. It’s reshaping how we live, think, work, and relate. It’s going to render many existing paths obsolete.

And here’s the most dangerous thing it threatens: meaning and purpose.

Human beings can’t live without those. We don’t survive well without a sense of usefulness, of value. As Viktor Frankl discovered in the concentration camps, the people who made it through were the ones who had meaning—a reason to keep going.

As AI continues to do everything faster, better, cheaper, it’s crucial that we don’t lose ourselves in the process. We must reconnect with our real purpose—our essence. That’s where the principles of emergence come in. That’s why I teach the life code and everything else I do.

Because there’s something in each of us that is irreplaceable.

No robot, no algorithm, no language model can replicate what’s been placed in you. It’s unrepeatable. Unprecedented.

And we need to stop treating purpose as a luxury—something we do on a weekend retreat or after we’ve handled all the “important” stuff. It’s not extra. It’s essential.

This isn’t about just going to Esalen, or reading Eckhart Tolle, or browsing Awakened Magazine when you’ve got time. Purpose and identity must move from the periphery to the center of our lives.

It’s a matter of livelihood.
It’s about your children’s future.
It’s about our survival as humans.

It’s time for this kind of inner work to become part of the curriculum—in schools, in business, in everyday life. Not religious dogma, but soul-level truth:

What am I really made of?
What am I really made for?
What is irreplaceable about me that only I can bring into the world?

In the future, the most valuable resource won’t just be energy or computing power—it will be your unique, lived, embodied experience. And yes, we may eventually raise AI into embodied systems. But that’s far off.

Right now, it’s about preparing people to make the leap.

In the book, I outline 10 key evolutions we must make—starting now—to reclaim agency, sovereignty, meaning, and true abundance. To upgrade not just our software or hardware—but our heartware.

We need to reconnect with ourselves and with one another. Without love, without real touch, without emotional intimacy, we don’t thrive. We die—spiritually, emotionally, and sometimes physically.

So this work is about survival. About thriving. And about helping each person discover:

What makes me necessary in this new world?
How can I become a whole new human in a high-tech, low-touch society?

In many ways, it’s the first self-help guide for the AI age.
A Whole New Human—coming January 2026.

For those who are resonating with your energy and your message, how can they work with you or go deeper?

Derek Rydall: Well, if you don’t already think I’m crazy, you can head over to my website www.DerekRydall.com. There’s a ton of free content there. I give away most of my work for free—trainings, tools, audios. You’ll find plenty to get you started on this path.

You can also check out my podcast Emergence, available on YouTube and all major platforms.

And if what you’re getting resonates with you and you want to go deeper—into a program, a course, or a live experience—then you’ll already be connected through those free resources. Just follow what speaks to you.

Most importantly, if this path is awakening something in you, don’t let it pass by. Go to the site, start exploring, and then shoot me an email. I’d love to hear how the work is landing and how I can support your next step.

Derek, thank you so much for being with us today and sharing your wisdom, your story, and your vision for this next season of human evolution. We truly appreciate it.

Derek Rydall: Thank you. It’s been my honor.