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A death -defying escape performed by the
world's most daring magician.
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A man who endures below freezing
temperatures using ancient breathing
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techniques. And a baffling crime that
was solved by transcending space
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and time.
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History is full of incredible
individuals who may seem no different
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rest of us.
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but have somehow managed to transcend
the limitations of the human body.
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How do they do it?
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Does the secret lie within the power of
the mind? Or is it possible that some
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have learned how to tap into forces
beyond our understanding in order to
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the impossible?
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Well, that is what we'll try and find
out.
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San Francisco, California, June 1899.
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A little -known 25 -year -old Hungarian
magician and escape artist by the name
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of Harry Houdini makes an astonishing
debut at the Orpheum Opera House, one of
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the country's premier vaudeville
theaters.
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Houdini's father was a rabbi, and when
he lost his job in Appleton, Wisconsin,
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the family moved to Milwaukee and later
to New York.
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And it was there he met a friend who had
a mutual interest in magic, and they
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formed an act, and they took the name
Houdin, and they added an I to the end,
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Houdini. And that was really the
beginning of his magic career.
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Houdini would come to town, and he would
challenge police officers and
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locksmiths to bring their best locks.
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He would put himself in these locks and
he would escape them on stage in front
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of a live audience.
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Houdini's real power and his gift was
his showmanship, his presentation, his
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ability to mesmerize an audience, to
connect with them. Because here was this
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small immigrant man that conquered all
his fears, that could do things that
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nobody else could do.
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And so he would have this power over his
audiences in a way that's never been
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achieved since.
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Over the course of his career, Houdini
performed thousands of death -defying
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escapes.
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But of all his astounding feats, one was
considered more dangerous and more
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impossible than the rest.
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Houdini depended on publicity stunts to
draw people to the vaudeville theater to
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see him.
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The greatest of those publicity stunts
was the overboard box escape.
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He started it in 1912 in New York.
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He announced that he would be doing this
escape from a pier.
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And a massive crowd assembled to watch
this.
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And Houdini showed up with his
assistants, with the reporters, with his
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crate. And the police also showed up.
And they said, you can't do that.
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laws against that.
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Houdini decided to rent a tugboat on his
own out in the middle of the East
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River.
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There, they started the process of
locking him up in the handcuffs, locking
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up in the leg irons, tying him up with
the heavy rope, putting him inside this
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escape roof wooden crate, nailing the
lid on so it could be open.
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And even that wasn't enough.
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Then they tied the packing crate up with
this heavy, strong rope.
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Because the box had a number of air
holes all around it, and because it was
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weighted on the outside with 180 pounds
of iron, it would quickly sink into the
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water, the water would go inside of the
box, and of course Houdini with it.
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Everyone who worked with him knew that
it was a dangerous feat. The story was
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that they used to hold their breath with
him because they used to anticipate how
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long he would be under the water.
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And about a minute later, suddenly he
would bob to the surface free,
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completely free of the box and the
handcuffs.
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And what's amazing about the overboard
box escape is that when the box was
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hauled up, it was still locked, it was
still nailed shut.
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And when it was opened up, the handcuffs
were found inside, also closed.
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How did he escape from this wooden
packing crate?
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into the river, and nothing was touched,
nothing was damaged, all in less than
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60 seconds. That is beyond belief.
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It was indeed beyond belief.
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Over the next several years, Houdini
would repeat this incredible escape
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countless times and for audiences all
over the world.
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How did he do it?
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It was such a great escape and it
mystified audiences everywhere.
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But Houdini had his skeptics.
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They wanted to expose him. They wanted
to explain how he did it. They figured
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Houdini would sneak in during the middle
of the night and cut a little trap door
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or have an escape panel that he could
get out of it some way that nobody knew
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about.
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So let's just say for the sake of
argument.
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that he did use short nails or trick
knots to escape his contraption.
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How is it possible that he got out of
his handcuffs, out of his leg iron, put
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the box back together again, tied it all
back up, all within 57 seconds while
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holding his breath?
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Houdini would invite anyone on stage to
examine the nails, to handle the nails,
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to put in your own nails.
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And you might also suggest, was Houdini
ever in the packing crate in the first
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place?
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He was in that these had holes in them,
and he would poke his finger out, and
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they would see. And even as he would be
raised, he would poke a little American
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flag or something out.
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So you could see from the time that it
went under the waves that there's
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inside that packing crate.
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While there are many theories, no one
knows for certain how Houdini pulled off
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his overboard box escape.
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Even master escape artists, many of whom
spent decades studying Houdini's tricks
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and techniques, are still trying to
figure it out, often with deadly
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Many people have died doing this escape.
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I mean, I was one of them. I'm living
proof of how dangerous this escape is.
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In 1983, I decided to do my variation of
the Houdini packing grip.
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I got all chained up and locked. I got
put into a wooden coffin. The lid was
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nailed on.
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It was wrapped and chained. And then the
coffin was lowered into an icy river in
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Canada.
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And I didn't escape.
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I couldn't get out.
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I was underwater for nearly four
minutes.
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They pulled the coffin out. My cold,
lifeless body was still inside that
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It was only the dedicated paramedics
that were up on standby that saved my
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I was a very lucky young escape artist
on that day.
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For nearly a century since his death,
magicians have tried and failed.
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to figure out just how Harry Houdini
managed this incredible escape.
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But there are some who believe that the
reason for their failure is simple.
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They never considered that Houdini was
capable of performing real magic.
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One of Houdini's great friends was
Arthur Conan Doyle, the author of
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Holmes. Conan Doyle believed very
strongly in spiritualism, and he saw a
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of things that he considered evidence.
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that Houdini was actually a psychic and
was dematerializing out of his escape.
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He always chided Houdini that he should
be honest with his audience and tell
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them not only that he has these powers,
but that these powers exist for everyone
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to share.
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Sir Arthur firmly believed that Houdini
was supernatural, and he could not be
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talked out of this by Houdini.
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But Houdini went out of his way to say
there is nothing supernatural about my
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feats.
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My brain is the key that sets me free.
That was what Houdini would say over and
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over again.
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My brain is the key that sets me free.
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Could the secret to Houdini's incredible
feats really have been revealed in that
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simple phrase?
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Did the magician have such an incredible
control over his mind that he could
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command his body to perform the
impossible?
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We may never know.
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On October 31st, 1926, Harry Houdini
died of a ruptured appendix at the age
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52, taking many of his secrets to his
grave.
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But whether his astounding escapes were
made possible by clever devices,
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impressive physical skill, or what some
might call real magic,
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Harry Houdini remains the most
mysterious and unexplained magician in
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Central Iceland.
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Here, not far from a massive glacier
where temperatures average just above
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freezing, a man has decided to sit
outside in the cold for over an hour,
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wearing only a pair of shorts.
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His name is Wim Hof, and although most
people would die if they attempted such
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feat, he finds it quite relaxing.
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Wim has made a great impression on the
world because of his extraordinary
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ability to withstand freezing
temperatures.
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His exploits have earned him the
nickname the Iceman.
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The most challenging aspect of going
into the cold is
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your fear.
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Control your fear and let the body do
what the body is capable of.
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All the doctors said, you are the
Iceman. You are a freak of nature. You
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abnormality. You are a superhuman.
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But I'm as human as any person, only I
am challenging my body and mind in
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nature.
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They misperformed a number of feats that
on the surface seem impossible, such as
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climbing Mount Everest wearing nothing
but shorts and shoes.
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and spending nearly two hours fully
immersed in an ice bath.
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But what motivated them to learn how to
brave the cold in the first place?
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As a young kid, I was very interested in
anything that was strange,
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and stories and deeds of people going
into the unknown, so -called.
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And when I was 17, I began to go in
freezing temperatures.
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And there I found a deep connection with
my body, with my gut,
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with the depth.
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And that is now 45 years ago.
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And since then, I have never skipped a
day going into the cold.
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In these ungodly, below freezing
temperatures, the average person can
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death in less than 30 minutes. It's not
an environment that's suitable for
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humans.
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So with Wim Hof's ability to withstand
cold is really extraordinary.
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It just makes absolutely no sense.
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For an ordinary person, attempting these
feats would result in almost certain
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death.
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And yet Wim Hof doesn't just survive in
frigid temperatures. He seems to thrive
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in them.
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But how?
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Well, according to Wim Hof, This ability
doesn't come from his body, but rather
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from his mind.
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If we follow the breath, then
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the mind begins to see.
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I learned how to tap into my brain to
have a much greater control than doctors
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thought was possible.
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When I go in a brain scan or in an fMRI,
and they put cold water upon my
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skin with a skin temperature measurement
device, I'm able to raise my skin
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temperature so much that the cold water
is making my skin temperature not going
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down. That means through the psychology,
I cause something physiologically.
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Wim Hof's work is being widely studied
right now in academic settings.
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And what's being found is that he can
get into a kind of transpersonal
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mental state where the body is freed
from perceived limitations, making him
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resilient and capable of acts of greater
stamina.
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We're coming to a whole new realization.
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of the powers of the mind over the body.
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Could Wim Hof's mind be able to regulate
his body's ability to withstand
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freezing temperatures?
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Many experts believe it's possible.
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And as evidence, they point to an
ancient Tibetan breathing technique
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tumu, which, if done properly, can raise
a person's body temperature.
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Tummo was first described in the 11th
century.
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And what it translates to is inner fire.
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And the practice is meditation -guided
breathing, where they literally imagine
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that their spine is on fire and they can
feel this flame going from their deep
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inside all the way to the top of their
head.
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And it's believed that they can raise
their core body temperature and feel
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heat by practicing this meditation and
breathing strategy.
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Tummo gave them control to be able to
withstand elements, and inner control
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amidst this external chaos.
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Through this meditative practice, you're
literally able to heat up your body so
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you can withstand cold temperatures. But
it's a technique that anyone... can use
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it. Anyone can be taught how to do this.
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If Tulu can unlock the mind's capacity
to control body temperature, then it
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naturally begs the question, what other
incredible abilities do our minds
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possess?
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Well, in the case of Vimov, it appears
that he has taken his mental powers to
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the next level in order to actually heal
his body.
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15 years ago, Wim ran a half marathon
barefoot in the snow. After the half
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marathon, one of the medics examined his
foot and said, hey, this is pretty bad,
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and said he has irreparable damage,
third -degree frostbite.
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And Wim just was so mad.
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He just felt like he could do something
to heal it.
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So Wim was... able to start healing his
frostbitten foot by doing his normal
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breathing exercises that he had been
doing for years and focusing and
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visualizing his foot being healed. And
over a month and a half, it did get
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better. The skin healed completely.
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The irreparable damage that he was not
supposed to come back from was gone.
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Is it really possible that Wim Hof is
simply using his mind to perform these
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superhuman feats?
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While that idea may sound far -fetched,
Vim is just the latest in a long line of
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people possessing such remarkable
abilities.
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We have a much more possible control
over our mind and body than meets
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the eye.
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We can learn to raise our capacity to
endure pain and to tackle.
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biological stress.
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And that is there for anybody.
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Through your mind, you are able to go
further than you have ever been before.
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Greenland, April 2013.
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Lying within the coastal mountains of
this frigid landscape is Lake Korkunok.
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Covered beneath a million tons of ice,
its crystal blue waters hover at a
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hypothermia -inducing 33 degrees
Fahrenheit, one degree above freezing.
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Wearing only a pair of swim trunks, four
-time world champion free diver Stieg
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Severinsen plunges into the icy water in
an attempt to set a new record for the
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longest swim under ice.
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Without an oxygen tank?
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And unable to surface, he risks
unconsciousness and death as he swims
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feet underwater, or nearly the length of
a football field.
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When most people jump in ice -cold
water, they start gasping and they
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Within minutes, you become icy cold to
the core, and your body can
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simply shut down.
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I understand that people think it's
crazy or wild or stupid even, you know,
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unbelievable.
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But I love to challenge science. I love
to challenge the human physiology, human
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potential.
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Steve's swim beneath the ice wasn't the
first time he went to
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his dreams.
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In May of 2012, he also held his breath
for an astonishing 22 minutes.
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But what would compel someone to push
themselves to the limit, risking death
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just to pull off a stunt?
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Some of us seem to be hardwired to push
the limits. Some of us seem to crave
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excitement, intensity, euphoria.
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There seem to be a certain fraction of
people.
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in need of physical activities or other
kinds of activities that push the limits
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of safety or human possibility or
perseverance.
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Now it's a question as to whether these
people are seeking euphoria or whether
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they're seeking some greater, more
visceral connection with themselves.
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Humans have this drive and this need to
seek novelty, to see what's on the other
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side of the unknown.
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And it's something that is incredibly
dangerous, but also makes us able to do
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insanely difficult things.
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In the late 18th and early 19th
centuries, a new breed of thrill
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popularized the public display of
pushing the limits of human ability,
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life and limb to perform death -defying
feats in pursuit of fame and fortune.
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And the first of these daredevils was a
man named...
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Sam Patch.
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Sam Patch was the Evel Knievel of the
early 19th century.
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They called him the Jersey Jumper, the
Yankee Leaper. He liked to jump off
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things.
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Famously, they had a platform erected in
Niagara Falls so that he could jump
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into the water, but from a really high
level, 75 or 100 feet.
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Unfortunately, it's risky business, and
in 1829, on Friday the 13th, He either
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slipped or fell awkwardly and didn't go
in feet first as he normally did.
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The audience of several thousand heard a
splat and he was never seen from again.
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But Sam Patch's tragic demise did not
deter other would -be daredevils.
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Over the next century, countless more
followed in his footsteps, increasing
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danger with every attempt.
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Including... One who went to the next
level by taking to the skies.
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Clem Stone was an aerialist. One of the
first, maybe the first, to build for
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himself a kind of gliding suit.
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He would jump out of airplanes with the
wings attached and a kind of tail
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structure. One of his nicknames was the
Birdman.
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He would glide for thousands of feet and
then eventually pull the ripcord and...
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parachute to safety.
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And he did this on both sides of the
Atlantic.
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Unfortunately, outside of Paris in 1937,
in front of a crowd of as many as 100
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,000 people, he glided through the air
and then his first chute failed to open.
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And then the second one, and then he
plunged to his death.
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The practice of performing thrill
-seeking feats is alive and well today,
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if not all daredevils survive their
attempt to push the limits.
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But why do so many human beings feel the
need to pursue incredible feats, even
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if it means risking their lives?
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Pushing boundaries and pushing limits is
part of our human nature.
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You would think that would be
counterintuitive.
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Seeking pain...
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Seems like not the brightest thing to do
because we're going against our
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survival.
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If you look at any animal in the animal
kingdom, none of them really do things
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that go against survival instincts.
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They just want to survive.
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Human beings, on the other hand, we will
seek out things that put us at immense
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risk and not for any external reward.
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but really for the internal reward of
doing it.
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Seeking something difficult, something
hard, often makes people feel alive.
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Does risking one's life somehow push
daredevils beyond the limits of what we
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consider physically possible?
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It's an intriguing theory, but what's
even more incredible is when people are
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able to harness the mysterious powers of
the human mind.
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Like in the case of a murder that was
solved not by conventional police work,
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but rather by using a strange practice
that is known as remote
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viewing.
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May 2006.
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Stephen B. Williams, a successful radio
host and DJ from Colorado, has gone
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missing.
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For the next two weeks, Police engage in
a massive search.
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But despite their efforts, there's still
no trace of him.
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Desperate for answers, a close friend of
Williams decides to enlist the help of
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Angela Smith, a woman with a unique
talent.
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Remote viewing.
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He didn't want to give me any upfront
information.
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because in remote viewing often that can
contaminate the viewing and lead to
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imagination, etc.
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The process I use consists of sitting
with a pack of white paper and a pen, a
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couple of letters and numbers, and often
nothing more, to go through accessing
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colors and shapes and smells and tastes
and going in your mind to the location
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and perceiving and bringing back the
information.
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I did a session and found water,
brackish water, a land mass, an event
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happened.
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And it seemed that the individual in
question had been killed, was in the
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and a lot of other surrounding
information.
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In 2006, I was a commander for the Los
Angeles Sheriff's Department, and I'd
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been in law enforcement about 31 years.
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It was quite unusual, to say the least,
that Angela Smith would pick up a
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particular homicide and provide detailed
information and then try to help solve
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it.
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I called the homicide investigator and
just said, is he working on a case with
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an anonymous body found floating in the
ocean?
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By the fact that I had that much
information, I immediately had his
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I says...
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I've got some information on this, and I
said, I've got to tell you that it's
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going to sound bizarre.
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Using the information provided by Angela
Smith, the police were able to identify
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a nameless body that had been found off
the coast of Catalina Island.
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It was that of Stephen B. Williams.
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But it didn't end there.
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Angela provided information not only
about the victim.
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but also about this killer.
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After the body had been identified, I
did a profile, like an FBI profile,
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and that matched a profile of an
individual that Williams had been in
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contact with.
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He had actually swindled Williams out of
some money.
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The homicide investigator called me back
three or four days later and said, hey,
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just so you know, this stuff's legit.
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They had a possible suspect, and they
even had a motive, none of which they
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getting through the conventional
methods.
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I thought, wow, maybe there really is
something to this.
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Stephen B. Williams' killer was
eventually apprehended, thanks, it
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incredible abilities of Angela Smith.
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The idea of remote viewing has been
around for a long time. It's been around
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actually thousands of years.
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And it's the idea that you can transmit
yourself out of your body and go view
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other places and get information and
then figure out what was going on
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ever having to go there.
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What science has found so far, they
attach electrodes to the brain while
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somebody's doing remote viewing.
Sometimes you're accessing information
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right brain, reporting it and writing it
down with the left brain. So there's a
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dance going on. It's very much a whole
brain activity.
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Can remote viewing really provide
visions of people, places and things, no
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matter where they are on Earth?
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The very notion seems absurd.
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And yet, there was a time when some
thought this practice could be used to
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the Cold War.
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The Russians, during the Cold War, were
investing millions of dollars in
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parapsychology, psychic phenomena,
remote viewing.
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And the Americans felt that they had to
keep up with the Russians, and so they
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developed their own classified program
and were basically trying to train
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psychic spies.
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I was one of the first people that was
recruited for the remote viewing
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It was now being referred to as the
Stargate program.
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I was recruited in October of 1978.
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In the late 70s, there had just been a
revolution in Iran, and in November of
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1979, a group of students who were
revolutionaries took over the U .S.
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and took dozens of American hostages.
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So when this hostage situation unfolded,
U .S. intelligence had very little
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information about how many hostages they
were, where they were being held, etc.
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It was reported later that there was a
team of remote viewers that were
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working out of a secret location in
Maryland, just outside of D .C., and
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they were trying to find out what was
going on inside the embassy.
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They said, we need to know who's a
hostage in this place where an embassy
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taken over.
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Some of the other things we were asked
to do is describe how they were being
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treated, what they were being fed, how
they were being guarded, other things
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like that.
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In this case, we were able to identify
pretty much most of the hostages.
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They actually based legitimate
intelligence efforts on the information
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got from any of these psychic remote
viewers.
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And so we know it worked, but we're
still trying to figure out exactly how
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works.
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Espionage typically relies on high -tech
equipment like satellites, radio
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receivers, and computers.
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But, according to those who practice
remote viewing, this technology is no
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match. for the greatest computer in the
world, the human brain.
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I've been remote viewing now for 42, 43
years, constantly.
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People ask me, well, how do you get
information to come down?
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I go to a place in my mind where it's
very quiet, and I just open to whatever
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information is going to come.
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I believe that everybody has a natural
intuitive ability.
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So remote viewing, training focuses on
that natural ability and enhances it.
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What it says about the brain is that our
brains are plastic. They're able to
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adapt and able to learn.
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Ross, California.
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In this small town in the heart of Marin
County,
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lives world -renowned ultra -marathoner
Dean Karnasas.
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And by all accounts, he was born to run.
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My earliest childhood recollections are
running home from school when I was in
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kindergarten.
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Literally, I remember sitting in the
classroom just waiting for the bell to
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ring. And as soon as that jingle went
off, I was out of there.
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I felt like when I was running, I felt
most alive.
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most complete.
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It's hard to describe, but I just
remember the way the air used to feel on
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skin and the leaves changing color. I
just started relating to the world
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running.
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Dean's somewhat of an icon in the
running community in the sense that he
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things other people can't.
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Dean's definitely a superman in terms of
being able to run long distances,
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repetitive days back to back.
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Among Dean's many record -breaking
running achievements are completing 50
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marathons in 50 consecutive days,
running 135 miles across Death Valley,
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one of the hottest regions on Earth, and
accomplishing a 75 -day, 3
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,000 -mile run across the entire United
States.
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But perhaps his most incredible
achievement occurred on October 12,
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When Dean ran 350 miles without
stopping.
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I think I decided to run 350 miles
nonstop out of curiosity.
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I wanted to see how far I could push my
body and my mind. And I completed it. It
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took me 80 hours and 44 minutes of
continuous running.
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Three days straight without stopping to
eat or sleep.
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Dean's feats are astounding.
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And he is arguably the greatest athlete
in the history of what is called ultra
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running.
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Ultra running is any distance running
that goes further than the marathon. So
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could be anything from 30 miles all the
way up to races that are hundreds or
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even thousands of miles.
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The six -day race was the precursor to
modern ultra marathon running. It
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originated in the 1700s in England.
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These athletes tried to cover as much
distance as they possibly could in six
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days. So they would sleep as little as
possible, often only getting an hour or
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two of sleep during each day to try and
cover as much distance as possible.
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Early on, these athletes would run 400
to 500 miles.
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But in 1888, George Littlewood set a new
record for the six -day challenge,
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covering 623 miles.
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So that's over 100 miles a day of
running or walking.
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That was so good that that record almost
stood 100 years until Giannis Kouros, a
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Greek runner who was one of the best
ultra runners in history, finally broke
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So that gives you an indication of how
good these athletes are.
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But it's not just athletes who choose to
run such mind -boggling distances.
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In fact, there's an entire community
that runs just as far as
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do, and they've been doing it for
thousands of years.
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Copper Canyon, Mexico.
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Here in this harsh region of 10 ,000
-foot plateaus, far from modern
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civilization, live a group of people
known as the Raramuri.
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Descended from a prehistoric society of
foragers and hunters, the Rarimuri still
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live in relatively primitive conditions.
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But incredibly, they possess a unique
ability to run for hundreds of miles
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in a single day.
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The name Rarimuri seems to be derived
from meaning those who run fast.
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So, not surprisingly, the Rarimuri are
known as exceptional long -distance
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runners. far in excess of what most
people think people should be able to
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They have running competitions and
running rituals that would put a lot of
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long -distance runners to shame.
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They don't have the modern accoutrements
or modern sneakers. They tend to run in
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either sandals or barefoot.
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And they do this as a big part of their
culture.
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Our ability to run for a long period of
time has given humans a great advantage,
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especially when it came to hunting and
searching for food.
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Humans are one of the best long
-distance runners in the entire animal
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We could actually run down things like
deer and antelope.
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We're not as fast in the short run, but
in terms of long -distance running, a
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human being could theoretically run down
just about any animal on Earth.
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In ancient times, running was not only
used as a means of stalking prey, it was
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also a method of long -range
communication.
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Running served a vital purpose for the
ancient Greeks. They served as couriers
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or messengers. They were essentially the
ancient mail system for the Greeks. It
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was vital for military strategy in
particular.
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00:37:42,250 --> 00:37:47,450
In antiquity, the best way to convey
messages, especially matters of war,
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matters of religion and so forth, was to
send a himerodromos. So that's the
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Greek word for a day runner. It was a
special class of people specifically
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00:37:58,970 --> 00:38:05,509
trained for this and specifically
equipped physiologically, not only to
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a message in a timely fashion, but to do
it over time.
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Very rugged terrain, over several
hundred miles.
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So in that regard, the extent to which a
Himero Dromos can perform these amazing
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00:38:20,340 --> 00:38:24,540
feats would suggest that it requires a
kind of superhuman ability.
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In the case of Dean Karnasas, his
superhuman running ability may be due to
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fact that he is actually of Greek
descent.
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00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:40,649
I think my ability to run long
distances, is influenced definitely by
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heritage. I'm 100 % Greek, and Greece is
the birthplace of long -distance
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00:38:44,190 --> 00:38:46,420
running, and I've known that for a long
time.
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00:38:47,230 --> 00:38:53,329
I think I have the natural ability to
run long distances from my heritage, but
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having the will to do it is another
thing.
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And I think I just have the will to do
it.
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Tokyo, Japan, October 2015.
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00:39:08,740 --> 00:39:12,619
Professional swordsman Eseo Machi is
about to perform an incredible
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00:39:12,620 --> 00:39:13,670
demonstration.
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00:39:15,160 --> 00:39:20,579
He will attempt to cut a baseball
traveling at 100 miles per hour,
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00:39:20,580 --> 00:39:23,940
half, and from a distance of only 30
feet away.
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00:39:25,080 --> 00:39:26,130
It seems impossible.
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00:39:26,940 --> 00:39:31,460
That is, until he does it.
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00:39:31,461 --> 00:39:35,759
When I first saw the video of the
samurai cutting the ball in half, I was
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00:39:35,760 --> 00:39:36,810
absolutely amazed.
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00:39:36,811 --> 00:39:41,169
What I like about video these days is
you can do some simple physics. You
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he's maybe sort of 30 feet away.
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00:39:42,790 --> 00:39:46,829
The ball is roughly 100 miles an hour.
That gives you a reaction time of
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00:39:46,830 --> 00:39:48,650
essentially 0 .2 seconds in this case.
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00:39:50,090 --> 00:39:53,889
Typical reaction time for really elite
baseball players trying to hit a
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tend to be around 0 .4 seconds.
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00:39:55,491 --> 00:40:00,109
Actually, this is a more difficult task
than something like baseball pitching
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00:40:00,110 --> 00:40:05,389
because clearly baseball pitching, you
pick up information from the body shape
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00:40:05,390 --> 00:40:06,440
of the pitcher.
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00:40:06,570 --> 00:40:09,670
which tells you loosely when the ball is
going to be released.
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00:40:10,450 --> 00:40:15,029
Whereas in this instance, he seems to
have a wall in front of him. There's a
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00:40:15,030 --> 00:40:18,160
of uncertainty in terms of when the ball
will begin its flight.
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The fact that he can do all these things
in 200 milliseconds is obviously quite
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00:40:21,830 --> 00:40:22,880
amazing.
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In this and in numerous other
demonstrations,
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Machi has shown a remarkable ability to
visually track fast -moving objects with
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an acuity that few can even dream of.
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00:40:36,270 --> 00:40:40,370
But how did this swordsman develop such
razor -thin reaction time?
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Some experts believe the answer lies in
the brain's capacity to make exceptional
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00:40:47,870 --> 00:40:50,350
feats seem almost routine.
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Someone who's an expert swordsman,
that's a highly skilled ability. It took
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00:40:57,470 --> 00:41:01,030
years and years to get to the level that
he's at.
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00:41:01,960 --> 00:41:07,099
And what happens is when you do that
kind of training, the better you get,
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00:41:07,100 --> 00:41:10,860
brain at the cortex level becomes
quieter and quieter.
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00:41:11,160 --> 00:41:15,460
And one thing that that gives you is the
ability to do things more quickly.
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00:41:15,980 --> 00:41:18,320
The circuits are shorter, they're
faster.
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00:41:18,700 --> 00:41:25,639
The swordsman being able to cut that
baseball in half in such a
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00:41:25,640 --> 00:41:27,900
short, brief shot.
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00:41:28,990 --> 00:41:33,149
He had to have spent enough time
building up a program. He just literally
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00:41:33,150 --> 00:41:34,650
unleashed that whole program.
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00:41:34,770 --> 00:41:37,310
And the rest of us would just be
flailing around.
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00:41:39,690 --> 00:41:45,709
Whether it's split -second reaction
times, surviving freezing temperatures,
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00:41:45,710 --> 00:41:50,309
performing feats that seem like actual
magic, the potential that human beings
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00:41:50,310 --> 00:41:55,570
have for developing extraordinary
abilities seems almost limitless.
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00:41:56,860 --> 00:42:02,779
Just how people acquire these
fascinating talents is an enduring
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00:42:02,780 --> 00:42:06,000
remains unexplained.
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