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>> IsNewsReal Films presents exciting news.
Is the divorce over?
Are spirit and sciencetying the knot once more?
Are the church and the laboratory
saying the same thing?
Out of the misty ages of antiquity,
the quest for the divine and the quest
for knowledge about theuniverse march hand-in-hand.
Ancient Sumer, there was a god of astronomy,
a god of horticulture, a god of irrigation.
And the temple priests werethe scribes and technologists
investigating these fields of knowledge.
Ancient Greece, philosophersasking the questions
of why are we here developed the theory
of the atom, celestialmovements and human ethics.
Medieval Europe, the Western church
rose to a position of supreme power.
Kingmaker, landowner, and purveyor
of the truth, the church took it upon themselves
to be the one knower of everything.
The dogma was law.
Yet science had moved forwardand now challenged the dogma
that the Earth was the center of the universe.
Copernicus, Bruno, and Galileo all
felt the heavy hand of the church.
The Tragedy-- unable tosuppress science anymore,
the church and science dividedknowledge and human endeavor.
Descartes invented dualism.
The church had theunseen, science the seen,
and materialism was born.
An uneasy truce-- scientistswere no longer being bound.
And they reacted with a vengeance.
All the unseen is fantasy, delusion.
We are strictly little machines running
in a predictable machine universe governed
by strict immutable laws.
The church pushed back, soulless scientists
were condemned to hell.
Darwin countered, thecreator was nothing, nowhere.
We are random mutations, simply a carrier
of DNA's relentless quest formore in a meaningless universe.
And meanwhile, both science andreligion were hitting the wall.
If everything was mechanisticand God was the only creator,
then what were we humans supposed to do?
Science dug ever deeper into a dead universe
and stumbled upon and unlocked a mystery.
In tiny corners of space and time,
scientists found unfathomable energy
and mind-numbing mysteries, mysteries
that suggest we are all connected,
that the physical universeis essentially non-physical.
Time and space are just constructs
of this non-materialness.
And today, renegade scientists are
meeting with religious leaders.
Conferences pushing forward ameeting of science and spirit
are springing up.
As the 20th century blew open the doors
of a mechanistic view, will the 21st century
blow down the iron wall betweenthe church and laboratory?
This is your IsNewsReal reporter signing off.
>> The rabbit hole and how deepand how far we want to go is
really how far, how much doyou want to discover about
your true nature.
>> Alice went down the rabbithole where she met the Mad
Hatter.
The Hatter was mad.
And the idea was you want toget out of the rabbit hole
after you've gone in.
So there's two stages to science.
There's the crazy part whereyou go down the rabbit hole.
And then there's the part where you
check the craziness of your ideas
against a rigorous, strict,straitjacket-like process.
>> I think the interestingthing about science,
the interesting thingabout physics is that it is
a genuinely new and novel wayof trying to come to grips with
the world.
I think the experimental methodwhich is important to physics
is a very different businessfrom the method of revelation
or the method of meditationor something like that.
I don't think it's true that,for example, adherents of, say,
Buddhism could imaginechanging their beliefs based
on the outcomes of some experiments people
do with electrons.
>> Quite this apparent riftbetween the church and science
or between science and religion emerged today.
I think the roots of that are very deep.
Because it probably goes back to a conviction
that some of the books of the scriptures
like the book of Genesis,which deals with beginnings,
is actually telling us aboutthe origins of the world.
Now, in fact, any biblicalscholar will tell you,
and this is not news, that the book of Genesis
was never meant to be aboutthe origins of the world.
But many churchmen believedthat in the book of Genesis,
you had actual sort of live news like CNN
about the beginnings ofcreation and therefore you
had many people down through the ages,
like the famous ArchbishopJames Ussher in Ireland in 1650
who calculated all the agesof the patriarchs back along
and worked out to his own satisfaction
that the creation of the worldoccurred in the year 4004
BC on the 17th of Septemberat 9 o'clock in the morning.
>> I think that there mustbe a scientific explanation
for spirituality.
I don't think there's beena good one until recently.
To me, the only one that makes sense
is that proto-consciousness,platonic values, goodness,
truth exist at this fundamentallevel of spacetime geometry
which can influence ouractions if we're open to them
and interconnect us to all other beings,
to the universe at large.
[wind rushing]
[music playing]
[RAPPING] It's time to get wise.
>> Science creates the stories that we live by.
And science has told us a very bleak story.
It's told us that we're somesort of genetic mistake,
that we have genes that use us, basically,
to move on to the next generation
and that we randomly mutate.
It's said that we are outside of our universe,
that we are alone, that we are separate
and that we are the sort of lonely mistake
on a lonely planet in a lonely universe.
And that informs our view of the world.
It informs our view of ourselves.
And we're now realizing that this view,
this view of separateness is oneof the most destructive things.
It's the thing that createsall the problems in the world.
>> [RAPPING] It's time to get wise.
>> And we're now realizingthat that paradigm is wrong,
that we aren't separate.
We are all one.
We're all together.
At the very nether most elementof our being, we are connected.
And so we're trying tounderstand and absorb what
are the implications of that.
What does this really mean to me in my life?
>> We need a new spiritual milieu.
We need a new spiritual way of understanding
the nature of what it is to be a human being.
Because the old ways, the old mythologies,
the old monarchy king god versusthe old lawful scientist's way
of doing everything are dead.
They need to be buried.
We need a new realm, a new vision.
And I think quantum physics, if anything,
could help us get a stepup in the right direction.
>> I think the key aspect of the new paradigm,
at least in medicine,which is my little piece,
is that consciousness is real and has an impact.
>> We have to go beyondour senses to create a new
paradigm.
>> It may very well be thatwhat's going on inside of you,
in your brain, in your nervous system,
in your nature ofobservation, how memory works,
how the mind works, it may verywell be that what is happening
there is some kind of observer-matter
interrelationship which isindeed making things real
for you, affecting how you perceive reality.
It's not changing the reality out there.
You know, you're not changingbig chairs and big trucks
and bulldozers and rockets taking off.
You're not changing those, no.
But you're changing how you perceive things
and maybe how you think about things,
how you feel about things,how you sense the world.
>> The infinite information thatthe brain is processing every
single second tells us thatthere's more to the world than
we're perceiving.
However, every single timewe're immersed in an experience
with our senses, seeing, smelling, tasting,
feeling, as we're immersedcentrally in our reality.
>> We know nothing about reality.
All of our sense of so-called reality out
there is filteredthrough our sense organs.
>> The brain processes 400billion bits of information
a second, but we're only aware of 2,000 of those.
That means that realityis happening in the brain
all the time.
>> You should try it.
How do I know what I'm doing?
I and the vase are one.
Hey, it might help your work, too.
>> I live through my eyes.
I feel in reality.
>> Not just some nebulous, nothing,
touchy-feely world of shifting whatevers?
>> If it's real, I want to see it.
>> The eyes are, in some senses, a camcorder.
Because they are takingthat information and they're
storing it.
But you're not really able to get
it to mean anything until youactually put it all together.
So in some senses, itrequires the editor's table
to really put the whole thing together
to put the movie together ofwhat your life and your world
is actually about.
>> If I get out of bed in the morning, OK,
and I suddenly decide to takevery seriously the claim,
which is surely a true claim,that I don't know for sure
if my eyes are working correctly, OK,
so that for all I know, eventhough it looks like there is
a stable floor by the side of my bed,
there might be a cliff orsomething like that, OK?
If I am unable to orderthose possibilities in terms
of probabilities that I assign to them,
then I'm not going to get out of bed.
It seems to me I'm paralyzedin the most literal sense
of the word, OK?
I'm going to have no idea howto literally take the next step.
It's definitely the case that we know
that my eyes might, inprinciple, be deceiving me
at any moment.
We've had experience of people before subject
to hallucinations.
And even if we didn't, we don't know
how to prove, as a fundamental matter,
that our eyes never deceive us.
That's absolutely right.
But when we make the decision toget out of bed in the morning,
we are assigning probabilitiesto the various hypotheses
compatible with my seeinga floor by the bed.
One hypothesis is there really is a floor there
and that's why I'm seeing it.
Another hypothesis is my seeingthe floor is a hallucination
and there's a cliff there.
By getting out of bed in the morning
you endorse one of thosehypotheses as more likely
than another.
[screams]
>> Well, ultimate reality, I think,
very frequently depends a loton how a person perceives it
and what they actually think isthe real reality of our world.
>> If the brain is processing400 billion bits of information
and our awareness is only on 2000,
that means reality is happeningin the brain all the time.
It's receiving that information, and yet we
haven't integrated it.
But if we're given knowledgeand information outside
of convention, outside the boxof convention, where, say, we
merge quantum physics andneurophysiology and the brain
is asked to contemplate orwe're asked to contemplate on it
and examine the what ifs andpossibilities and potentials
and associate our knowns withour experience of what we know
and repeat it over and over again, the brain
is going to start to integratetwo independent neural nets
and it's going to create a new vision.
And that new vision is goingto be like taking a flashlight
and shining it from those2000 bits of information that
have to do with our bodyand our environment in time,
slightly over in the darkand looking at something new.
That's called realization.
>> You OK?
I heard you scream earlier.
Was it another dream?
You were an Indian watchingColumbus's ship materialize out
of thin air.
Wow.
And this medicine man kept hitting you.
Cool.
Hey, maybe it was a pastlife or a parallel reality
or a future life.
>> Get real.
>> Or maybe that dream wastrying to tell you the truth.
I guess it just dependson what you think is real.
Maybe you should try different anxiety pills.
>> My pills are fine, OK?
Thank you.
>> Well, I have to go get dressed.
I hope you feel better, Amanda.
>> God, Amanda, you can be such an asshole.
>> People ask me, why doesquantum mechanics matter,
given that it's little,tiny stuff and who cares?
There are three possible answers.
From a practical point of view,it doesn't make any difference
at all.
I mean, you still have to goto work and drive your car
and do all the rest of it.
From a second point of view, actually, it
infiltrates everything in theworld, especially the world
of electronics.
When you go to the supermarket and you
do the scanning at the checkout, that's
a quantum mechanical effect.
But I think the important part is
the third one, which is essentially
a philosophical issue.
Why are philosophers so passionate
about deconstruction theassumptions of the world?
I finally got it.
I got it as a result oflooking at quantum mechanics
and comparing it to classical mechanics.
They present two very differentways of thinking about the way
that the world works and about what we are.
So from a classicalperspective, we are machines.
And a machine, there is no roomfor a conscious experience.
It doesn't matter if a machine dies.
You can kill a machine.
You can throw it in a dump.
It doesn't matter.
If that is the way that the world is,
then people will behave in that way.
But there's another way ofthinking about the world which
is suggested, it's pointed toby quantum mechanics, which
suggested that the world isnot this clockwork thing,
but it's more like an organism.
It's a highly interconnectedorganismic thing of some type
which extends through space and time.
In that kind ofenvironment, what I think
and the way that I behavehas a much greater impact,
not only on myself, but on the rest
of the world, than it wouldif it was a classical world.
So from a very basic point of view
having to do with morals and ethics, what I think
affects the world.
I mean, in a sense, that's really
the key for why a worldviewchange is important.
>> Let's talk about the subatomic world.
And then we'll talk about whatit's telling us about reality.
The first thing I want to tellyou about the subatomic world
is it's totally a fantasy created
by mad physicists trying to figure out
what the heck is going on when they
do these little experiments.
By little experiments, I mean big energy
in little spaces in little pieces of time.
It gets pretty nutty at that realm of things.
And so subatomic physics was invented
to try to figure that all out.
We need a new science down there.
It's called quantum physics.
And it is subject to a wholerange of debatable hypotheses,
thoughts, feelings, intuitionsas to what the heck is really
going on.
>> So on the one hand, you had a theory which,
from the conceptual standpoint,was profoundly puzzling
and on the other hand, froma practical standpoint,
was vastly more successfulthan anything we had ever seen
before.
This was the kind of situationthat produces the tension
that all of theinvestigations of foundations
of quantum mechanics arefeeding off of since then.
Because on the one hand, this is an acutely
paradoxical, puzzling,conceptually confusing theory.
On the other hand, we have no option
along the lines of throwingit out or neglecting it
because it is the most powerful,proven tool for predicting
the behaviors of physical systems
that we have ever had in our hands.
>> The universe is very strange.
There seem to be two sets oflaws that govern the universe.
In our everyday, classical world,
meaning at roughly our size and timescales,
things are described by Newton's laws of motion,
set down hundreds and hundreds of years ago.
And they worked very wellfor billiard balls and cannon
balls and gravity.
However, when we get down to a small scale,
when we get down to, say, the level of atoms,
a different set of laws take over.
These are the quantum laws, quantum theory,
quantum mechanics.
And at that level, particlesmay be in multiple places
at the same time.
They may behave as waves smearedout spatially and temporally.
They may be interconnectedover great distances.
They may be unified into one quantum state,
into one state governed by one wave function.
And the borderline, the threshold,
this curtain between the quantumworld and the classical world
is really mysterious.
It's called, sometimes, thecollapse of the wave function.
Because in the quantum world, everything
is in superposition of multiple possibilities.
In the classical world,these multiple possibilities
seem to collapse toparticular definite choices
so everything is in one particular place.
>> Quantum mechanics isreally the play and display
of information, the playand display of potentiality,
waves of information, waves of potential electron.
And it's important, the word potential.
This isn't the world of electrons,
it's the world of potential electrons.
But you have to ask the question, waves of what,
really?
What is the field that is waving?
Is it the ocean?
No.
It's a universal ocean, anocean of pure potentiality,
an ocean of abstract potential existence.
We call it the unifiedfield or super string field.
And that's what we're made out of.
>> Connectivity, among all things,
is a basic constituentof the fabric of reality.
It's very difficult towrap your mind around that.
But Erwin Schrodinger said, he'sone of the founders of quantum
mechanics, that entanglement, which
is this idea of this connectivity,
is not just a property of quantum mechanics,
it's the property.
It's the property of quantummechanics that makes it
very, very strange.
And it doesn't seem to fitin with our ordinary world
or ordinary experience.
But in fact, it actually does.
>> You want to shoot some hoops?
Man, you don't have to be like that.
Come on and play.
Look, he likes you.
Don't you have time for a little one on one?
How long has it been since you played?
Come on, you got the ball.
Take a shot.
No, no, no, milady, not from there.
It's out of bounds.
You gotta be on the court to be in play.
Welcome to Duke Reginald'scourt of unending possibilities.
Court rules.
Gotta sink the last one.
>> That hurt.
>> It never touched you.
>> Right.
>> And it's not solid.
This ball is mostly empty.
>> We were all taught inschool that the world is made
of stuff, of matter, of mass, of atoms.
Atoms make up molecules,molecules make up materials,
and everything is made of that.
But atoms actually are mostly empty.
For example, if this ball were the nucleus
of an atom, a proton in ahydrogen atom, for example,
then the electron circling this which
would describe the outer limits of that atom
would be out by that mountain over there
roughly 20 miles away.
And everything in between is empty.
In fact, the universe is mostly empty.
However, when we go downin scale in the emptiness,
we eventually come to alevel, the fundamental level
of spacetime geometry, the finebasement level of the universe
where there's information, there's a pattern.
It's called the Planck scale.
And it's the fabric of the universe.
And at that level,there's information that's
been there since the Big Bang.
So most of the universe, evenof matter, is actually empty.
>> Most people thinkthat the vacuum is empty.
But for internal self-consistency
of quantum mechanics and relativity theory,
there is required to be the equivalent of 10
to the 94 grams of massenergy, each gram being E
equals MC squared kind of energy.
Now, that's a huge number, butwhat does it mean practically?
Practically, if I can assumethat the universe is flat,
and more and moreastronomical data is showing
it's pretty darn flat, if I can assume that,
then if I take thevolume or take the vacuum
within a single hydrogen atom that's about 10
to the minus 23 cubic centimeters.
If I take that amount of vacuumand I take the latent energy
in that, there is atrillion times more energy
there than in all of the mass of all of the stars
and all of the planets outto 20 billion light-years.
That's big.
That's big.
And if consciousness allows you to control
even a small fraction ofthat, creating a big bang
is no problem.
>> Organizations like NASA,British aerospace are all
trying to tap into this incredible,
unimaginably large energy sea.
And they feel if they can tap this,
we can travel to different galaxies.
So they understand that in empty space,
there is this unbelievable energy.
>> The major, basic idea thatquantum physics implies which
makes us understand this or eventhink about this new paradigm,
the thing which is, is thatthere's this underground,
there's gotta be a realm ofexistence which cannot be ever,
you know, touched on or seen which bubbles
into the existence givingrise to our understanding
of the world.
>> The tighter physics havetried to grasp on to physical
reality, to understand whatit's really made of, what are
the core building blocks of life?
At the basis of it all, life, the universe
slips through your fingers and you come up
with something that's increasingly abstract,
increasingly abstract, to come to the realm
of pure abstraction.
And that's what the unified field is.
It's pure abstract potential,pure abstract being,
pure abstract self-aware consciousness,
which rises in waves of vibration
to give rise to the particles, the people,
everything we see in the vast universe.
>> What makes up things are not of more things,
but what makes up things areideas, concepts, information.
>> And like I said, it never touches.
>> Another strange fact is thatobjects never really touch each
other.
When I dribble this ball, the atoms
of the ball and the atoms ofthe ground never actually meet.
>> So nobody touches nothing.
Come on, put your stuff down.
Nobody's gonna take it.
Like I said, this is my court.
It's no problem.
How long has it been?
>> I'll be late.
>> The first inkling inphysics that we got that time
ain't what it seemed to be came with relativity.
That was the first inklingthat time was not absolute.
It was not the absolute ruler of the universe,
that God almighty did notsay one second and one second
and one second and one second or one meter
or one meter or one meter.
You're in a gravitational field.
Your head is actually movingat a slightly faster rate
than your feet.
>> The second law ofthermodynamics says that things
unwind and move forward.
So that gives an arrow of time.
But at the quantum world,in the micro world,
the second law of thermodynamicsdoesn't seem to hold,
and things can gobackwards or be timeless.
>> The fundamental equations ofphysics have a property which
is referred to as time reversal symmetry.
And what time reversal symmetry means
is that a set of laws whichare time reversal symmetric
are laws that have the following feature.
For any process that's inaccord with those laws,
the same process goingbackwards is exactly as much
in accord with those laws, OK?
That ought to mean that milk jumps out
of coffee as often as itdissolves into it, that people
get younger looking as often asthey get older looking, that we
have the same kind ofaccess vis a vis knowledge
to the future as we do tothe past, that by acting now
we ought to be able toinfluence the past just as much
as we can influence the future.
All of that is wrong.
All of that, that is,comes into violent conflict
with the way we psychologically experience the world.
>> One of the mostunpalatable ideas, still,
in spite of the fact thatquantum physics has been around
a long time is the possibilityor the notion that the future
can have a causative effect on the present.
We believe that the pastcan have a causative effect
on the present.
I hold the ball, I drop it,it falls, cause, [click],,
effect when it hits the ground.
But could the ground be the cause
of my dropping the ball in the first place?
>> It's only in consciousexperience that it seems that
we move forward in time.
In quantum theory, you canalso go backwards in time.
And there's somesuggestion that processes
in the brain related toconsciousness project backwards
in time.
For example, in the late1970s, a neurophysiologist
at University of California San Francisco
named Ben Libet did some very famous experiments.
What Libet did was to study patients
who were havingneurosurgery on their brains
with their brains exposed while they were awake.
They were given a local anesthetic
to numb the area of the skull and scalp
to access their brains and they were awake
and Ben would talk to these people.
So for example, what he did was he
would stimulate their little finger
and look at the part of the sensory cortex
on the opposite sidethat was related to that,
record from it electrically, and ask the patient
when he or she felt thestimulus on the little finger.
And he would also stimulate atthat particular area of cortex.
Now what you would think would be
that if you stimulate the little finger,
it takes a finite period of time to get
to the opposite side of the cortex
so the patient would reportit a fraction of a second
later, after the stimulus andwhen you stimulate it directly,
the patient would report it immediately.
He found just the opposite.
When you stimulate the little finger,
the patient felt it immediately.
And when he stimulated directly on the cortex,
there was a delay.
After sorting through all the data
and repeating this over and over,
Libet came to the conclusionthat somehow the brain
was projecting informationbackwards in time
so that it did take a finite amount of time
to get to the sensory cortexbut the brain projected it
backwards in time so thatthe conscious perception was
that the stimulus was felt whenthe pinch actually occurred.
>> There have been some studieswhich have shown that when
people are beginning to movea hand or beginning to say
something, that there'sactually activity in the brain,
in certain nerve cells of the brain,
even before they becomeconsciously aware of what
they're trying to do.
>> I know it seems to me that Ioften do things and then decide
a fraction of a second later what to do,
but I've already done them.
>> I'll be late.
>> You could always go back in time.
[shutters snapping]
[cheering]
[buzzer sounding]
What's the matter?
Remember, it's empty.
>> How do you know this shit?
>> I read Dr. Quantum comics.
Everybody thinks it's just kidstuff, but I know it's real.
That's how I do my magic on the court.
>> Know what they taught us inschool isn't really the way it
is and that our sensesare playing tricks on us.
You just gotta wonder, what is this reality
that we find ourselves in?
Quantum physics says it's alljust waves of information.
Do I believe that?
Uh, I hope so.
Yikes!
>> That's how I do my magic on the court.
>> Yeah, I always choose the wonder boy first.
>> Dr. Quantum says everybody's got it.
Everybody's doing it, doing it constantly,
each and every time you look.
>> And here we are, thegranddaddy of all quantum
weirdness, the infamous double slit experiment.
To understand this experiment, we first
need to see how particles orlittle balls of matter can.
If we randomly shoot a small object, say,
a marble, at the screen, wesee a pattern on the back wall
where they went through the slit and hit.
Now, if we add a second slit, we would
expect to see a second bandduplicated to the right.
Now, let's look at waves.
The wave hit the slit and radiate out,
striking the back wall with the most intensity
directly in line with the slit.
The line of brightness on the back screen
shows that intensity.
This is similar to the line the marbles make.
But when we add the second slit,something different happens.
If the top of one wave meetsthe bottom of another wave,
they cancel each other out.
So now there is an interferencepattern on the back wall.
Places where the two tops meetare the highest intensity,
the bright lines.
And where they cancel, there is nothing.
So when we throw things, thatis matter, through two slits,
we get this--
two bands of hits.
And with waves, we get an interference pattern
of many bands.
Good so far.
Now, let's go quantum.
An electron is a tiny, tiny bitof matter, like a tiny marble.
Let's fire a stream through one slit.
It behaves just like the marble, a single band.
So if we shoot these tinybits through two slits,
we should get, like the marbles, two bands.
What?
An interference pattern.
We fired electrons, tiny bits of matter through,
but we get a pattern likewaves, not like little marbles.
How?
How could pieces of mattercreate an interference pattern
like a wave?
It doesn't make sense.
But physicists are clever.
They thought, maybe those little balls
are bouncing off each otherand creating that pattern.
So they decide to shoot electrons through one
at a time.
There is no way they couldinterfere with each other.
But after an hour of this,the same interference pattern
is seen to emerge.
The conclusion is inescapable.
The single electron leaves as a particle,
becomes a wave of potentials,goes through both slits,
and interferes with itself tohit the wall like a particle.
But mathematically, it's even stranger.
It goes through both slitsand it goes through neither.
And it goes through just one andit goes through just the other.
All of these possibilitiesare in superposition
with each other.
But physicists werecompletely baffled by this,
so they decided to peek and see which
slit it actually goes through.
They put a measuring device by one slit
to see which one it went through and let it fly.
But the quantum world is far more mysterious
than they could have imagined.
When they observed, the electron went back
to behaving like a little marble.
It produced a pattern of twobands, not an interference
pattern of many.
The very act of measuring or observing
which split it went through meant it only
went through one, not both.
The electron decided to actdifferently as though it
was aware it was being watched.
And it was here thatphysicists stepped forever
into the strange neverworld of quantum events.
What is matter?
Marbles or waves?
And waves of what?
And what does an observerhave to do with any of this?
The observer collapsed the wavefunction simply by observing.
>> We are always the observer,but sometimes we identify with
the event so much so thatwe even lose the aspect
of the observer.
That's why the materialistgets totally lost
and thinks that we could do without the observer.
>> The physics data tells usthat an object itself is really
a simplification for what we call out there.
One is particularly when we're looking
at atomic and subatomic particles
or atomic and subatomic matter in any form, what
we find is how we go to look at it
and what we choose to examine it with actually
changes the properties of whatwe observe to be out there.
>> Is this the observer whichis so intricate to understanding
the wacky, weird world ofquantum particles and how they
react?
Is this, then, the observer?
And even though we cannothave a quantum field without
the observation of scientistswho have gone there who have
uncovered it layer after layer after layer,
they're all observers.
But not one of them agree conclusively
on all points in the field because they
are perceiving the field mathematically
from different angles of perception.
>> We don't know in quantummechanics how to hook ourselves
as observers up with the world.
We don't know how to treat ourselves
as observers, as just anotherpart of the physical system
that we're describing.
The only way we know how todo quantum mechanics as it's
traditionally formulated is to keep
the observer outside of thesystem you're describing.
The minute you put him in,you get all these paradoxes
and we're forced to saythings in quantum mechanics
like, look, the book is doing what it's doing
because of quantum mechanics.
And I see that because I'm there and I see it.
And you better not try toanalyze that second part
of the sentence in terms of applying
quantum mechanics to it becauseit's going to break down.
That's why there are these twoseparate laws of the evolutions
of physical systems, one that applies
when you're not looking at them, the other that
applies when you are.
But that's crazy.
>> There's no way that we'reever going to mathematize
or put into a mathematicalformula this very act in which
a conscious observercomes up with the answer.
People say, oh, the measuringinstruments, the recorder
records it and there it is,it's on the tape, it's recorded.
You forgot one part of the equation,
somebody has to look at the tape.
And until somebody looks at the tape,
it ain't recorded it at all.
>> When you are not looking,there are waves of possibility.
When we are looking, then thereare particles of experience.
>> A particle, which wethink of as a solid thing,
really exists in a so-called superposition,
a spread out wave of possible locations,
and it's an all of those at once.
The instant you check onit, it snaps into just one
of those possible positions.
>> It's easy to generatesituations where the equations
of motion will predict that, say, the wave function,
the psi of a certain basketball,is uniformly distributed all
over the basketball.
We don't have any idea what a state like that
would look like.
According to the law of quantum mechanics,
that's supposed to be a state in which it fails
to make any sense even to ask the question,
where is the basketball?
That is, according to thelaw of quantum mechanics,
asking the question whereis a basketball whose
psi is uniformly distributedover a whole basketball court
is the logical equivalent of asking
about, say, the maritalstatus of the number five, OK?
It's not that you don't know the answer,
you don't happen to knowwhether the number 5 is married
or a bachelor, it's that the question somehow
is radically inappropriatein the first place.
The number 5 doesn't have a marital status.
There's nothing there to ask about.
And similarly, a basketballwhose wave function
is uniformly distributed overthe entire basketball court
would not have a positionthat could even coherently
be asked about.
Now, the crux of the measurement problem
is precisely that, although theSchrodinger equation predicts
under certain circumstances,circumstances which
we basically know how toreproduce in a laboratory,
that basketballs shouldgo into states like that,
states where there fails tobe any intelligible facts,
any sensible question,even, about where they are.
And yet, when we go look at thebasketball court in situations
like that, we invariably seeeither a basketball over here
or a basketball over thereor a basketball over there.
The fact that we see the basketball
in some specific locationas opposed to seeing it
in some science fiction state that we can't even
imagine what it looks like where there fails
to be a question about whatits location is, the fact
that we always see it in some definite location
is an explicit violation ofthese equations of motion.
And it's exactly there that themeasurement problem comes up.
>> When you observe, things happen.
When you don't, they don't.
>> Superheroes use superpositionwith the world being potential
strips of reality until we choose.
Heroes choose what they want,being in many places at once,
experiencing manypossibilities all at once,
and then collapsing on the one.
The question is, how far down the rabbit hole
do you want to go?
>> Your own mind is creatingmultiple possibilities
in your subconscious.
The superpositions of possibilities
are in your subconscious.
I mean, you may beconsciously aware of them,
but they exist, I think, in superposition
with multiple possibilitieswhich after awhile will
collapse to one or the other.
>> Project or plan into thefuture or cast a thought ahead
of itself.
>> Nice shot.
>> But thegreat-great-granddaddy of wacky
quantum weirdness is entanglement.
If time reversal symmetrydestroys the notion of time,
then entanglement crushesour experience of space.
Two objects, two electronscreated together are entangled.
Send one to the other side of the universe.
Now, do something to one, andthe other responds instantly.
Instantly.
So either information istraveling infinitely fast,
or in reality, they are still connected.
They are entangled.
And since everything was entangled at the moment
of the Big Bang, that meanseverything is still touching.
Space is just a construct thatgives the illusion that there
are separate objects.
Are we far enough down the rabbit hole yet?
>> You now can see in numerouslabs around the United States
objects that are large enoughto be seen by the naked eye
and they are in two places simultaneously.
You can actually take a photograph of them.
Now, I suppose if you showeda photograph, they'd say,
oh, great here's thisnice blob of colored light
and I see there's a bit ofit over here and a little bit
here.
So you got a picture of twodots, what's the big deal?
Superposition is pre-detection.
What I was speaking about inthe film is post-detection.
Now, under normalcircumstances, a single object,
once it has been detected, is in just one position.
However, there are states of matter
that have been created now in which objects
can be in multiplepositions simultaneously,
not just two, but actuallyas many as 3,000 positions.
The first of these objects were called
Bose-Einstein condensates.
And they are single wave functions,
meaning they are single particles.
But even though they're a single wave function,
the wave function has multiple positions.
And so we'll look, look, look,right in the chamber, you know,
you can see it right there.
Oh, I see two things there.
No, no, no, that's not twothings, that's one thing.
It's the same thing in two places.
The tricky point here isthat it's still a single wave
function.
It's not 3,000 separate wave functions,
it's one wave function.
So it's one particle.
I'm not sure that people's jaw would
drop about it because I don'tthink people really believe it.
I don't mean that people say, oh, you're lying
or, oh, the scientists are confused,
I think it is so mysteriousthat you can't even
understand how amazing it is.
One particle in 3,000 different locations.
>> Now, if you were to weigh one of them,
would it weigh 1/3000th?
>> Well, you can't weigh one of them.
>> Why?
>> Because it's one particle.
It's just-- It's is one indivisible particle.
>> But if it's--
but if it's in different locations,
can't you put a scale under one?
>> No, it's inseparable.
This is the tricky conceptual part.
It's not 3,000 separate parts.
>> Even though it looks that way?
>> Right.
You can look at it.
And, I mean, you can't actuallysee the one with 3,000.
But you can look at the simpler ones,
the ones that are two or threeor four and you can see them.
You can see, as I say, if you go onto the web,
you'll see photographs of these.
And you'll see these littledots floating in space.
These are the different parts of one object.
They're not separable.
It's not four different objectsor six different objects,
it's one wave function, it's one object.
>> That's a real brain fart, isn't it?
Because when you think aboutit, wait a minute, no, no, no,
they're, like, here, here,here, so it's obviously
one, two, three.
>> No, and you can't pullone away from the others.
If you try to pull one away from the others,
the entire thing will just disappear.
And then furthermore, youknow, you've seen "Star Trek"
and whatnot, "Beam me up, Scotty."
>> "Beam me up, Scotty."
>> So it all seems sort of, oh, well, you know,
what does that really mean?
But you've got to really stop and think
about what that means,that it's the same object
and it's in two places at once.
And then people tinker in the lab
and they get angry aboutthings and they have lunch
and they go home and they lead their lives just as
though nothing utterly astounding is happening.
Because, of course, that'show you have to go about it.
And yet there is this completelyamazing magic sitting right
in front of your eyes.
[phone ringing]
>> Where the hell are you?
I've got a studio full of people,
but oh my god, there's no photographer.
Where?
Where can she be?
Aliens?
Loch Ness Monster?
Or a hot date?
>> We took two simple black boxes like this.
Inside is a very simple electric circuit
with a few diodes, an oscillator, EPROM,
some resistors and capacitors.
Basically, that's it.
We wrapped one in aluminum foil, we
put it in an electricallygrounded Faraday cage.
The other we set on atabletop around which four,
very well qualifiedmeditators, highly inner self
managed individuals sit.
And they go into a deep meditative state.
They cleanse the environment.
They make it, essentially,a sacred space
using their mind cleansing procedures
and their intentions.
And then one of the fourspeaks the specific intention
for this device.
The intention is to influencea particular target experiment.
It might be to increase thepH of the purified water
by one full pH or to decreasethe pH by one full pH unit.
We've used these devices on all those experiments
and have been robustly successful.
In the meditative process, then after one
speaks the particular intention, it's
held various ways by thefour for maybe 15 minutes.
And then so be it, it's let go.
And then a subsidiary intention is
stated to seal that imprint into the device.
We take one of these deviceswith its aluminum foil,
we put it in a soft package.
We put in a FedEx packet.
We ship it 2,000 miles away to the laboratory
we're using up in Minnesota.
And soon as it arrives there itgoes into its own electrically
grounded Faraday cage.
The next day we do the same with the control.
The experiment is running,and basically then one
just takes the device out, sets it
beside the experimentwithin 6 inches to a foot,
and turns it on for a period time, that's it.
Now, we learned over some period of time
that there was another factor.
We found that the use ofthese, we call them intention
imprinted electricaldevices, the continued use
of this somehow conditions the space
to some higher level of symmetry.
And we start getting new phenomena,
that is, the devices work.
That is, the pH which is normal starts
rising one full pH if that was the imprint,
or it starts dropping.
If you go one full pH unitor beyond, you're dead.
I mean, that's what it means to a human.
>> REG machines, random eventgenerators are electronic
tosses of the coin.
>> One type of randomnumber generator experiment
that's been conducted many, many times,
hundreds of times over the pastfour decades or so since around
the 1960s has been a randomgenerator that only produces
sequences of random bits, zerosand ones, like flipping coins.
And you would simply asksomebody to press a button,
it would produce 200 bits.
And you would ask them to say, well,
try to make it produce moreone bit than zero bits.
And when you take theentire body of literature,
all of the hundreds of experiments
that have been done, youcan ask a single question,
did it matter that people weretrying to push it towards ones
or push it towards zeros?
And the overall answer is, yes, it does matter,
that somehow intention iscorrelated with the operation,
with the output of theserandom number generators,
such that if you wish for more ones,
somehow the generators produce more ones.
>> So when they talk aboutin quantum physics being
a completely arbitrary and random process,
what they're not accountingfor is the extraordinary effect
of human thought, of human intention.
>> When the OJ Simpson trial wasgoing on, a lot of people were
watching television because ofthe courtroom drama that was
unfolding.
And Radin intuited that there must
be a lot of intention going on at the time
when the courtroom drama is strong.
So he hired a bunch of psychologists who kept
track of the courtroom drama.
At the same time, Radinwas studying the behavior
of random number generators.
But then Radin found thatwhenever the intentions were
strong in the courtroom, that's when
the deviation of these random number
generators from randomnessbecomes very high.
>> This leads naturally towonder are people affecting
the world of reality that they see?
You betcha they are.
Every single one of us affectsthe reality that we see.
Even if we try to hidefrom that and play victim,
we all are doing it.
>> Just tell me where you are?
Good.
Well, just hurry, will you, please?
Because these models are giving me a headache.
>> 10 minutes.
[shutter snaps]
[screams]
>> Our snowflake exhibitcomes to us from Japan and Mr.
Masaru Emoto.
Mr. Emoto became terribly interested
in the molecular structureof water and what affects it.
Now water is the mostreceptive of the four elements.
Mr. Emoto thought, perhaps it would
respond to non-physical events.
So he set up a series of studies,
applied mental stimuli, and photographed it
with a microscope.
>> [speaking japanese]
>> One sample of water, wedropped about 0.5 CCs onto each
50 Petri dishes.
Then we take those 50 Petri dishes
and freeze them in afreezer at minus 25 degrees
Celsius for about three hours.
We take those frozensamples into a refrigerator
that is set at minus 5 degrees Celsius where
a microscope with a camera is set up.
There we take photographsof each of the 50 water
drops individually.
We first take photographs of water
that we did not put any information in.
Then, we take the water with information
and do the sameprocedure just described.
We take those before and after photographs
and compare the differences.
When we projected the feelingof love and thanks to water,
it made the most beautiful crystal.
Times like this, I think water is at peace.
>> This first picture is a picture of water from
the Fujiwara dam.
And this picture is the same water
after receiving a blessingfrom a Zen Buddhist monk.
Now in this next series of pictures,
Mr. Emoto printed out words, taped them
to bottles of distilled water,and left them out overnight.
This first photograph is apicture of the pure distilled
water, just the essence of itself.
These subsequentphotographs, as you can see,
are each different.
This is the "Chi of Love."
And we move along here to "Thank You."
And you can see where he tapedthat to this bottle here.
But if you read Japanese,you already knew that.
Now, Mr. Emoto speaks of the thought or intent
being the driving force in all of this.
The science of how thatactually affects the molecules
is unknown, except to thewater molecules, of course.
And it's really fascinating when you
keep in mind that 90% of our bodies are water.
>> It makes you wonder, doesn't it?
If thoughts could do that to water,
imagine what our thoughts can do to us.
>> One of the most interestingexperiments with random event
generators occurred whenit was really out of time.
Some Princeton investigatorsand some of the other ones
decided that they wouldtry to see whether or not
you could affect a randommachine after it had run.
So they converted it,instead of having a computer
with a visual screen, they hada computerized situation that
was audiotapes.
And they had it with clicks in the left ear
and clicks in the right ear.
And they already playedthis with nobody listening
to it so that it already ran.
They put that in a vault and they then
gave the tape, the alreadyrun tape to a participant
and said, take it home.
I want you to listen to it.
And I want you to make moreleft ear clicks than right ear
clicks with it.
Send your intention to it.
So the person did, they handed back the tape,
and they played it and lo and behold,
and they played the one in the vault, too.
And they discovered that theywere both the same and they
both had more leftclicks than right clicks.
So what was going on here?
Well, it wasn't as though theperson who was the participant
had actually affected it at themoment he was listening to it.
His thoughts and his attention had
moved back down the timeline and affected it
at the moment it was generated.
>> Most people don't affectreality in a consistent,
substantial way becausethey don't believe they can.
>> Whatever way we observe theworld around us is what comes
back to us.
And the reason why my life, for instance,
is so lacking in joy andhappiness and fulfillment
is because my focus is lackingin those same things exactly.
If we're victims, we should ask ourselves
have I a victim mentality?
If I'm continually meetingmisfortunes and accidents
and tragedies, maybeit's because my mentality
is basically attuned toaccepting that this is the way
life is, and so it happens.
Now, why can I not achieve those things?
Fundamentally, through lack of focus.
>> The average person losestheir attention span every six
to 10 seconds per minute.
>> When one wants to focus intent,
you want to be a singleness of mind.
That's why some of the old occult teachings
teach people to focus on aflame, a match flame, in fact,
so that you learn to bringyour attention into a very
sharp channel so that theenergy density becomes greater.
>> The mind is structured in layers,
just like the universe is structured in layers,
from superficial to profound.
And if we use the mind ina very superficial level
of ordinary thought, we have very limited power,
we can barely move a speckof dust across a tabletop
without using our hands, soweak can consciousness be.
But at the deepest level of consciousness,
consciousness creates universes.
>> But we always wonder then, don't we,
when we wish for all of those tobe able to heal with the touch
and to raise the dead andto manifest a loaf of bread
in our hand, we alwayswonder why we can't do that.
But we can never ask aquestion that we don't already
know the answer to.
And the answer is it's becausewe don't believe we could do it
and it interferes with our agenda,
of our own personaladdictions that define us.
We have never had enough time to care for anyone
else other than our ownemotional addictive needs.
[music playing]
>> Hi.
How was the shoot?
>> Fine.
>> Your boss called.
He's worried about you.
Amanda, I want to thank youfor letting me stay here.
I know I'm a bit much sometimes and that it's
been tough after Bob and all.
And you've just been so wonderful.
I mean, I make a mess and,well, I clean up afterwards.
But it's not really your style.
>> Sometimes I think you make me sane.
>> Me?
[laughs]
The day I make someonesane, they're in trouble.
Anyway, I made you something as a thank you gift.
Open it.
I went through your picturesand picked my favorite ones.
And it took me forever becausethere's so many good ones.
This, that's for all the wonderful photos
you will be taking.
Oh.
>> I've had a strange day.
Thank you.
>> If thoughts can do that to water,
imagine what our thoughts can do to us.
>> --what thoughts are made of.
Is there a substance of thought?
[popping]
>> This is a dream that I'm dreaming.
Just as in a dream, you dreamdifferent characters can emerge
and come out to you and talk to you and meet you
and so forth, it's possible to go
to another level of dreaming where
you can become each of thecharacters that you dream.
>> Go backward and forward in time.
>> Time is relative.
>> It goes backwards.
It goes backwards in time,then forward in time.
>> Time is not absolute.
>> --quantum information.
>> Time reversal symmetry.
>> Of course, we can gobackward and forward in time.
>> --random even generators occurred, which is--
>> Are all realities inthe quantum field existing
simultaneously?
>> The actual event of experience.
[interposing voices]
>> There literally are differentworlds in which we live.
There's the macroscopic world that we see.
There's the world of our cells.
There's the world of ouratoms, the world of our nuclei.
These are each totally different worlds.
They have their own language, they
have their own mathematics.
They're not just smaller,each is totally different,
but they're complementary.
Because I am my atoms but I am also my cells.
I'm also my macroscopic physiology.
It's all true, there are justdifferent levels of truth.
The deepest level of truth uncovered
by science and by philosophy isthe fundamental truth of unity.
At that deepest subnuclearlevel of our reality,
you and I are literally one, one, one.
>> This gradually led intosome notions that there was
an invisible connection between everything.
Physicists give this a name.
They call it entanglement.
>> As Einstein put it, he didn'tbelieve that quantum mechanics
could be true because itrequired that there be "spooky
action at a distance."
That was his term.
And what he meant is that when we
have our ordinary sense of theway that the fabric of reality
is, it seems like these twoplaces are absolutely in space,
they're separate, andnever the twain shall meet.
But in fact, it's not true.
At some deeper level thatwe can't see with our eyes
very clearly, two places in space are the same.
They're co-located, coexisting.
So if we imagine that common sense,
the way common sense literally meaning
what your senses tell you about the world,
if that's the way the worldis actually constructed,
then things like psychic and mystical experience
don't make any sense at all.
Because the whole point aboutpsychic and mystical experience
that makes them strange is the sense
that there's some kind ofconnection between what's
going on inside your head and things
elsewhere, elsewhere in space and in time.
So what this view ofquantum mechanics provides
is a way of framing what thesestrange experiences are like.
And it reframes it fromsomehow, magically, information
is getting inside my head from signals or forces
or something into a different view,
which is that, in a sense,your head, yes, is here,
but it's also spread out, spreadout through space and time.
And so when I'm able toget a telepathic impression
from somebody at a distance, it's
not because I somehowjumped out there and got it,
but because at some deep level,my head and the other person's
head are co-located.
>> We become entangled allthe time when you communicate
telepathically.
Those experiences are so striking.
I literally can read your thoughts
if I become entangled with you.
And such things happen,there are distant viewing
experiments.
There are even experiments now that you
are seeing light flashes, thatyour brain potential picks up
the signature of those light flashes, what
is called evoked potential, that can
be measured in an EEG machineconnected to your brain.
And I am sitting over there no light flashes,
I cannot see you, andstill my brain potentials,
because I am correlated withyou in terms of intention,
I intend to be directly communicated with
your experiences, that intention produces me,
gives me the capability of simultaneously having
the similar brain potential in my brain.
It was first done by Jacobo Grinberg
at the University of Mexico, and now
repeated by Peter Fenwick in London.
>> The day should be the sunrise.
It should be the beginningof great thought.
>> I wake up in the morningand I consciously create my day
the way I want it to happen.
Now, sometimes because my mindis examining all the things
that I need to get done, it takes me a little bit
to settle down and get to thepoint of where I'm actually
intentionally creating my day.
But here's the thing, when I create my day
and, out of nowhere, little things happen
that are so unexplainable, I know
that they are the process orthe result of my creation.
And the more I do that, the more I
build a neural net in my brain that I
accept that that's possible.
It gives me the power and the incentive
to do it the next day.
>> And we all create our own realities.
And we do that because we are the observer.
We are each the ownobserver of our own reality.
And each of ourindividual consciousnesses
creates our own individual reality
in the most amazing way.
My son, Evan, the physicist says, no, it's
an additive thing.
I mean, if I'm holding one reality
and someone else is holding another reality.
I mean, it's the Super Bowl this afternoon.
And the reality that the Eagles are holding
is a different reality thanwhat the Patriots are holding.
And only one of those realities are
going to be the real reality.
So there's some additive and there
are interference patterns.
>> Well, I think if we keep quantum physics
and the understanding verysimple for the layperson,
that our observation has adirect effect on our world,
I think if we keep it very simple,
then people can get aboutthe business of beginning
to practice the skill of observation.
See, the subatomic worldresponds to our observation,
but the average person losestheir attention span every six
to 10 seconds per minute.
So that doesn't leave a lot ofroom for our attention span.
So how can the very large respond
to someone who doesn't have the ability
to even focus and concentrate?
Maybe we're just poor observers?
Maybe we haven't masteredthe skill of observation.
And maybe it is a skill.
And maybe we're so addictedto the external world
and so addicted to the stimulus and response
of the external world that the brain
is beginning to work out of response
instead of out of creation.
If we're given the proper knowledge
and the proper understanding andgiven the proper instruction,
we should begin to see measurable feedback
in our life.
If you make the effort to sitdown and design a new life
and you made it the most important thing
and you spend time every dayfeeding it like a gardener
feeds a seed, you will produce fruit.
>> We are running a holodeck.
We are collectively, it's there.
It has such flexibility, butanything you can imagine,
it will create.
And you learn, I mean, your intention
causes this thing to materializeonce you're conscious enough.
>> Yeah, so what is consciousness?
>> What is consciousness?
>> Well, consciousness is avery difficult thing to define.
What is consciousness?
Where does it come from?
People have been trying to explain consciousness
and trying to figure out what exactly it is,
what it means for us as human beings,
and why we even have it.
A simple way of defining it isit has to do with awareness.
And in particular, it has todo with awareness of the self.
That's at least how we as human beings
have self-consciousness sothat when we look in a mirror
we recognize that it's ourselves that we're
looking at and not some otherperson or some other animal.
>> And do you think sciencewill understand it better than
having to handle a hot potatocalled consciousness that has
so much cultish religionbackwater voodoo attached
to it?
>> Consciousness has beenleft out of the equations
of physics, in general, aswell as quantum physics,
for a very simple reason.
It's easier to do things that way.
[shutters snapping]
[music playing]
>> I hate weddings.
A wedding?
Come on, Frank.
>> This is a good assignment,if you'd see it that way.
>> What's to see?
I do.
They did.
>> Ah, God, Amanda, I mean,you live in your past.
I mean, everything withyou is about what happened.
You hate churches.
You hate weddings.
You hate guys.
>> Consciousness, we havegreat trouble defining it.
To me, consciousness is a byproduct
of spirit entering dense matter.
But we have a long, long way togrow before we get to the stage
where it is meaningful forus to ask the question,
will we know God?
>> Most people think of God asthat great figure in the sky
with the white beard who'sscrutinizing the human race
from above.
They see us here on Earth asin some form of neutral testing
ground where we're placedby God for a period
and God watches from above, registering
the scores on his laptop, asto whether we perform according
to his designs or whether we'reoffending him, as it's put--
an absolutely outrageous idea.
How could we offend God, the type of God
that people believe in?
How could it matter so much to him?
How could it, above all,matter that he would find it
so serious a situation that he could condemn us
to an eternity of suffering?
These are bizarre ideas.
But obviously, they have a great hold
on the fears and the limitationsand the insecurities of people,
which is why religion can play so
effectively, whetherdeliberately or otherwise,
on those insecurities.
People fall into line very readily
when they're threatenedby these cosmic sentences
of everlasting punishment.
>> How in the 10 commandmentscould we have possibly created
a mind that couldtranscend space and time?
No, we're too busy keeping our emotions in check
to ever dream of infinite possibilities.
And maybe that is the ultimate conspiracy.
>> Even though a given personmay have long ago thrown off
the trappings of religion, theystill live in the religious
mold and they don't even know it.
But their whole conceptionof how reality works
is all something that hasbeen molded by religion.
So until you get that out of your system,
you can't ever make a go ofan evolutionary perspective.
One of the problems with organized religions
is that there is this sense of separateness,
that it's only good to be a Protestant
or that people who are Catholicsare the only people who
know the way.
And I think now our currentunderstanding of quantum
physics is this understandingof complete unity
and so that we have to derive our spirituality
from a sense of unity.
>> This is the basic journey of spirituality,
when we ask the question whyam I feeling separate all
the time.
>> Speaking of God alwaysconjures up the idea of the old
guy with the white beard inthe cloud judging, observing,
punishing, rewarding, or giving commands.
Once you're on that track, you're
totally off the path of spiritual evolution
and development.
The great appeal of all to people
who don't want to grow upbut want the great parent
in the sky looking after themis to ask Jesus to do it for me.
If only I'd place my trust in Jesus,
he will save me from my sins and look after me
and all will be well.
Well, Jesus cannot eat my lunchfor me and Jesus cannot be born
for me and neither can Jesus save me.
Because what we're talkingabout in real terms
is not being saved by anyone, god or otherwise,
we are talking about personal evolution.
>> The only reason that thereis an addiction to religion is
some way out of a mistake.
Does that diminish the greatness of God?
No, it actually opens the corral and lets
God be eternal, absolute.
The law that is given to us is the same laws
given to that of those people on Sirius,
given to us by the people in the rho's
universe or the R-universe.
You know, your Hubble telescope has finally
seen galaxies of immeasurablebeauty that in our heart
and in our mind, we long to engage.
It's exciting to be beings ofgreater mind or lesser mind.
Where does it end?
Does it end?
Does it end?
>> We do not want to accept responsibility.
We do not want to accept our greatness.
So it's very easy for any system of thought,
religious or otherwise that comes along,
it's very easy to play on that,to play on our insecurities,
to assure us all is wellwe'll all be taken care of.
We lap that up.
Do not blame religion,blame our own insecurities
which has allowed religion to flourish
and which has allowed so many systems of thought
that are disempowering to flourish
throughout human history.
That's why we can't get out of it.
>> I now present to you Mr. AndMrs. Richard Buck Philipowski.
[applause]
[MUSIC - MENDELSSOHN, "WEDDING MARCH"]
>> Experiencing something in thepresent day that is a trigger
to something that is veryemotionally charged for us,
so now we have become even moredisconnected from the reality
of what actually is.
>> A dream, like athunderstorm in our brain,
in its electrical strikesthrough our synaptic skies
to the Earth of our being,creates a chemical cascade
in our body that prepares our body for conquest,
achievement or relishing experience emotionally.
But we would have no conquest, indeed,
we would have no relishmentif we had not first
had that hologram and thosechemicals that made us--
or rather changed us frombeing fearful entities
into fearless entities after a dream.
The frontal lobe is the crowningachievement of the human brain,
the frontal lobe.
This frontal lobe allows us a distinguishness
to change our minds.
>> Through the workings of the nervous system
and the particular way thatit implements quantum effects,
very distinct specific way,not general, not fuzzy,
not imprecise, that itabsolutely does open the door
for free will being apossibility that does not
violate modern scientifictenets and that's consistent,
to a certain extent, withpeople's subjective impression
that we do have free will.
>> What separates us from allother species is the ratio
of our frontal lobe to the rest of the brain.
The frontal lobe is an area of the brain that's
responsible for firm intention, for decision
making, for regulatingbehavior, for inspiration.
It is the seat of whatcauses us to take information
from our environment and processit and store it in our brain
to make decisions or choices that
are different than the decisions and choices
that we've made in the past.
The brain is made up of tinynerve cells called neurons.
These neurons have tiny branches that
reach out and connect to otherneurons to form a neural net.
Each place where they connect is integrated
into a thought or a memory.
Now, the brain builds up all its concepts
by the law of associate of memory,
for example, ideas, thoughts, and feelings
are all constructed and interconnected
in this neural net and allhave a possible relationship
with one another.
The concept and the feeling of love,
for instance, is stored in this vast neural net.
But we build the concept of love from
many other different ideas.
Some people have loveconnected to disappointment.
When they think about love, they experience
the memory of pain, sorrow,anger, and even rage.
Rage may be linked to hurt which may
be linked to a specific personwhich then is connected back
to love.
>> Every observation canbe looked upon as a quantum
measurement.
This quantum measurement produces memory.
We always perceivesomething after reflection
in the meter of memory.
It is this reflection in the meter of memory
that gives us that sense of I-ness, who I am.
>> The brain does not know thedifference between what it sees
in its environment and whatit remembers because the same
specific neural nets are then firing.
We know physiologically thatnerve cells that fire together,
wire together.
If you practice somethingover and over again,
those nerve cells have a long-term relationship.
If you get angry on a daily basis,
if you get frustrated on a daily basis,
if you suffer on a dailybasis, if you give reasons
for the victimization in your life,
you're rewiring and reintegrating
that neural net on a daily basis.
And that neural net now hasa long-term relationship
with all those other nervecells called an identity.
We also know that nerve cellsthat don't fire together,
no longer wire together.
They lose their long-term relationship.
Because every time weinterrupt the thought process,
that produces a chemical response in the body.
Every time we interrupt it, those nerve cells
that are connected toeach other start breaking
the long-term relationship.
>> If we practice our mental rehearsal and our skill
in being able to do it,we'll show that certain brain
circuits will grow as a result of our effort.
It will get easier to do, in other words.
If we accept that idea, then it will
allow us to go back the next dayand do it with more certainty
and with more acceptance.
That, in itself, is no different than praying.
You see, there's no religious text that
says thought doesn't matter.
There's no religious textthat doesn't say your prayer
and your intention shouldn'tbe answered by god.
But explaining how that happens is
what quantum physics andthe observer is all about.
But still, when we can make thought
more real than anything else, our brain
is designed to do that.
The frontal lobe with this enormous space
is the alter in which we place a thought.
And it gives us thepermission to hold the thought
for an extended period of time.
And it lowers the volume to external stimuli.
We lose track of time and space.
That's the moment we'restepping into the quantum field.
That's the moment that now we're making thought
more real than anything else.
[rock music]
>> We are physically, chemically,
emotional human beings.
It's not a bad thing.
It only becomes a limitation when
we keep accessing those same emotions
and those same attitudes on a daily basis
and go nowhere in termsof our change or evolution
in our life.
>> How can we say that we havelived fully every day by simply
experiencing the same emotionsthat we're addicted to every
day.
What we're actually sayingis I have to reconfirm
who I am and my personality is.
I have to do this, I have togo here, I have to be that.
A master is quite a different cat.
It is one that sees the dayas an opportunity in time
to create avenues of reality and emotions
that are unborn, ofrealities that are unborn,
that the day becomes a fertilization
of infinite tomorrows.
>> There's a part of thebrain called the hypothalamus.
And the hypothalamus islike a little, mini factory.
And it is a place thatassembles certain chemicals that
matches certain emotions that we experience.
And those particular chemicals are
called peptides that are small-chain amino acid
sequences.
The body is basically a carbon unit
that makes about 20 differentamino acids all together
to formulate its physical structure.
In the hypothalamus, we takesmall-chain proteins called
peptides and we assemble theminto certain neuropeptides
or neurohormones that matchthe emotional states that we
experience on a daily basis.
So there's chemicals for anger and there's
chemicals for sadness and there's
chemicals for victimization.
There's chemicals for lust.
There's a chemical thatmatches every emotional state
that we experience.
And the moment that weexperience that emotional state
in our body or in our brain, that hypothalamus
will immediately assemble the peptide
that then releases it through the pituitary
into the bloodstream.
The moment it makes it into the bloodstream,
it finds its way to different centers
or different parts of the body.
Now, every single cell in the body
has these receptors on the outside.
>> And one cell can havethousands of receptors studding
its surface, kind of opening up to the outside world.
And when a peptide docks on a cell,
it, literally, like a key going into a lock,
sits on the receptor surface and attaches
to it and kind of moves the receptor kind
of like a doorbell buzzing,sends a signal into the cell.
[buzzer sounding]
>> It's party time!
[MUSIC - BOSTON, "MORE THAN A FEELING"]
[SINGING] It's more than a feeling.
More than a feeling.
When I hear that old song they used to play.
More than a feeling.
And I begin dreaming.
More than a feeling. 'TilI see Marianne walk away.
I see my Marianne walkin' away.
>> What happens in adulthoodis that most of us who have had
our glitches along the wayare operating in a emotionally
detached place or we'reoperating as if today were
yesterday.
>> What is it?
>> Mixed.
[MUSIC - THE ROMANTICS, "WHAT I LIKE ABOUT YOU"]
>> Change, in itself, meansthat we have to abandon our old
self.
It means that we have toleave behind our identity
for a few moments and beginto speculate who we could be.
To change means modifying our behavior
enough so that it's permanent.
[SINGING] Yeah.
Keep on whispering in my ear.
Tell me all the things that Iwant to hear. 'Cause it's true.
That's what I like about you.
>> Our experiences color what we know.
So there is no completelyobjective appraisal
of anything.
Because our appraisal of everything
has to do with our previousexperiences and our emotions.
Everything has anemotional weighting to it.
>> We've gone from theemotions being these spiritual,
immaterial things, thingthat are not even things,
to actual molecules withmolecular weights and peptides
with sequences and structures.
>> Science knows now thatthe hypothalamus makes neural
peptides and those neuralpeptides are strong chemicals.
>> Well, here's the storyof the peptide and the cell.
The peptides find thereceptors and dock onto them
and stay attached.
Then they come off and thenthey can come back on again.
And while they're there,they are changing the cell.
A receptor that has a peptide sitting in it
sets off a whole cascade of biochemical events,
some of which changes the nucleus of the cell.
Each cell is definitely alive and each cell
has a consciousness, particularly
if we define consciousnessas the point of view
of an observer.
There is always the perspective of the cell.
The cell knows where it is.
The cell knows where it's going.
The cell knows what proteins its making.
The cell knows whether it's about to divide
or whether it's in aprogram to stop dividing.
In fact, the cell is the smallest unit
of consciousness in the body.
>> I'm hungry.
>> The cells are yelling up to the brain saying--
>> Hungry!
>> "We haven't gotten our fix today."
And it's going to start sendingimpressions to the brain.
And the brain is going tostart to formulate imagery.
It's going to sound like voices in our head--
>> I'm hungry.
>> --to think of a reasonwhy we should be depressed--
>> Yes, I'm hungry.
>> --to think of a reasonwhy we should be confused,
to think of a reason for our own suffering.
And the body's going to betelling the brain that it's not
getting its chemical needs met.
And so the brain will then activate and start
going to our past situationsand flashing pictures
to our frontal lobe.
>> Oh, yeah.
We've commandeered an entire serving platter.
[cheering]
Yeah, keep it coming.
Keep it coming.
>> This is good.
>> Oh, yeah.
[farts]
[burp]
>> Well, my definition of anaddiction is something really
simple, something that you can't stop.
We bring to ourselves situations that
will fulfill the biochemicalcraving of the cells
of our body by creating situations
that meet our chemical need.
>> That always happens to me.
Why?
>> Everyday!
>> Why?
>> So my definition reallymeans that if you can't control
your emotional state, youmust be addicted to it.
>> Oh, this ruins everything.
>> People that we really loveare people who are willing
to share our emotional needs, our feelings,
whatever they are, whether they are sexual,
whether they are victimized,"poor me, poor you."
Whether they are power, you need somebody
to control you so you feellike you're in control.
>> No, ma'am, don't dipyour half eaten shrimp back
into the cocktail sauce.
>> Screw you and your health codes.
I am the bride's sister.
I'll stick my ass in the cocktail sauce
if I damn well please.
>> What are you standing there for?
Come on.
>> I want you to get out there and serve.
Make sure everybody has a full glass.
[interposing voices]
Fun, fun, fun.
[interposing voices]
>> Me show you what women want.
>> What is reality?
>> What is reality?
>> What is reality?
>> What is reality?
What is known as reality?
>> They have taken laboratoryanimals and they've hooked up
electrodes in certain parts oftheir brain that produce those
neural peptides.
And those neural peptidesare such strong chemicals
that given the fact thatthey train the laboratory
animal to press the lever toget that chemical release,
that neural peptide release, itwould choose the neuropeptide
release more than hunger, morethan sex, more than thirst,
more than sleep.
As a matter of fact, it went to the point
of physical exhaustion andcollapsed before it would
take care of itself physically.
And that's really what stress does to our body.
We become so addicted to the stress in our lives
that we can't quit our job eventhough it doesn't serve us.
We can't leave our relationshipbecause it doesn't serve us.
We can't make choices becausethe stimulus and the responses
produce the chemistry that clouds our choices
and we're no different thanthe dog who lacks its ability
to make choices because ofits smaller frontal lobe.
>> So how can anyone really saythey're in love with a specific
person, for example?
They're only in love with theanticipation of the emotions
they're addicted to.
Because the same person could fall out of
favor the next week by not complying.
[music - animotion, "obsession"]
[moaning]
[SINGING] Who do you want me tobe to make you sleep with me?
You're my obsession.
You're my obsession.
Who do you want me to be--
>> [moans]
>> Amanda!
[SINGING] I feed you.
I drink you by day and by night.
I need you.
I need you by sun or candlelight.
You protest, you want to leave.
Stay, for there's no alternative.
Your face appears again.
I see the beauty there.
But I see danger.
Stranger beware.
A circumstance--
>> How can you not freakin' see?
>> No, no, no, no, you got the punchline wrong.
It's a photographer's joke.
Go on about your music.
[MUSIC - BAD COMPANY, "CAN'T GET ENOUGH"]
Are you OK?
>> Well, I--
I saw that groom humping some girl.
>> Uh, when?
>> Just now.
>> I was with the groom.
>> Hey, I can read lips.
>> Sorry.
I was with the groom just now.
He loves Paulette.
Where?
[SINGING] I can't get enough of your love.
I can't get enough of your love.
I can't get enough of your love.
>> Pollacks, they all look the same in a tux.
>> Everybody secretly is an adventurer.
Everybody loves the adventure.
It's just taking that first step.
And once they have the moment ofinsight, that moment of insight
carries frequency.
It carries a message.
The cells of the body areenlivened by possibility.
They're enlivened by unknown potentials.
They're enlivened by a futurehistory or a future opportunity
that may be down the rabbithole a little further.
And if they allow themselves to experience
the quandary and the mysticismand the possibility that when
they emerge from the rabbit hole,
they're a different personand now they go back
into their world, andbecause they've processed
that information and left footprints in the mind
and in the brain, their perception of the world
will never be the same.
>> How can we say that we havelived fully every day by simply
experiencing the same emotionsthat we're addicted to every
day.
A master is quite a different cat.
>> Have a drink?
>> It is one that sees theday as an opportunity in time
to create avenues of realityand emotions that are unborn
of the day become infinite tomorrows.
>> To the groom.
>> To the groom.
[MUSIC - ZOMBIE NATION, "KERNKRAFT 400"]
>> What's up, guys?
>> What's up, man.
>> Hello.
>> What do we need?
>> Some foxes.
>> Who out out.
>> Yeah, baby.
>> Yes, it's a psychosomatic network.
And yes, some of us, you know, particularly
adolescent boys are underthe control of lower centers.
[indistinct chatter]
The eye isn't in control ofthe molecules of emotion,
it's more, I don't wantto say at the mercy of it,
but these rapid eye movements that
help us decide where to focusare mediated in the midbrain.
And you can map opiatereceptors there and receptors
for many of the other peptides.
So once again, the relevantsearch command that's going on
is related to finding a certain emotional state.
>> Oh, god, she wouldn't fall for me, no.
>> Ooh, mama!
Whew!
What the hell are you waiting for?
Come on, you little pussies.
Jeez, I can't believe you guys.
What are you - ooooo.
Come on, come on, yeah, justget the hell out of the way.
Hi there, honey.
Come on, baby, you know you want it.
Oh, don't give me that look.
>> What about people who are addicted to sex?
>> Actually, sex itself is aninvention to allow us to see
into the future.
Think about that for a while.
[groaning]
[MUSIC - ROBERT PALMER, "ADDICTED TO LOVE"]
>> Whoa!
Whew!
>> Hello there, big boy.
Is that a rocket in your pocket or are you
just happy to see me?
Whew!
[laughing and screaming]
>> [SINGING] The lights areon, but you're not home.
Your mind is not your own.
Your heart sweats, your body shakes.
Another kiss is what it takes.
You can't sleep.
You can't eat.
There's no doubt, you're in deep.
Your throat is tight.
You can't breathe.
Another kiss is all you need.
Whoa, you like to think thatyou're immune to the stuff,
oh yeah.
It's closer to the truth--
[burp]
>> I want to hear some polka music, OK?
>> Fine, I'm gonna play the polka music.
>> These people want to hear some polka music.
>> I know, I'm going to play some.
I'm gonna play it!
>> You can't have a Polishwedding without polka music!
>> [SINGING] Might as well faceit, you're addicted to love.
Might as well face it, you're addicted--
>> No, would you leave it alone.
Give me a [bleep].
>> How can you have a polishwedding without any [bleep]
Polish music!
>> Get your [bleep] handsoff my equipment, [bleep]..
>> Whoa!
[shattering]
[train whistle blows]
>> It ain't a Polish wedding without polka.
[polka music]
[music - aeon spoke, "emmanuel"]
[SINGING] When your road desertsyou and your feet disappear,
you'll find some orchards.
Wasted one without appeal,where will you go from here?
>> Our mind literally creates our body.
>> But it all starts in the cell.
And who gives the cells the order?
The orders come from the neural net in our brain
which are based on theexperiences and information
that we've logged in there.
And we use a certain box of solutions
to our life that causes chemistry to take place.
So in order for us to change the chemistry,
we would literally have tochange the neural net which
means we'd have tochange our identity which
means we'd have to change our attitude
or change the way in which weinteract with our environment.
And every time we keep being the same person
and keep experiencing the sameattitudes, all we're doing
is reinforcing ourselves as our identity.
>> I once did a little gig in a women's prison.
They were all heroin addicts.
And by teaching them that theyhave receptors for the heroin
and that the more heroin that they take,
their ability to make theirown internal endorphins,
their own internal heroin,basically, starts to decline.
And then their receptorsstart to become sub sensitive
or there's actually less of them.
So there's these actual changes.
And then this new informationabout how less brain cells are
being made so that people getkind of, in all addictions,
they get stuck in old patterns.
>> The person's mental lifebecomes dominated by pain such
that everything that they perceive is colored
by the pain.
And sometimes every way that they react
and everything that they dobecomes all about their pain.
>> One of the things aboutreceptors is they change
in their sensitivity.
If a given receptor for agiven drug or internal juice
is being bombarded for a longtime at a high intensity,
it will literally shrink up.
There will be less of them or itwill be hooked up in such a way
that it is desensitized or down regulated.
So the same amount of drug or internal juice
will elicit a much smaller response.
[electricity crackling]
>> Oh, god!
No!
[explosion]
[whistling]
[screaming]
[gunshots]
[whistling]
>> Ah!
>> If we're bombarding thecell with the same attitude
and the same chemistry over andover again on a daily basis,
when that cell finally decides to divide,
when it produces a sistercell or a daughter cell,
that next cell will havemore receptor sites for those
particular emotional neuralpeptides and less receptor
sites for vitamins, minerals,nutrients, fluid exchange,
or even the release ofwaste products or toxins.
Now, all aging is a result ofimproper protein production.
What happens when we age?
Our skin loses elasticity.
Well, elastin is a protein.
What happens to our enzymes?
We don't digest as well.
What happens to our synovial fluid?
Those are proteins thatbecome brittle and stiff.
What happens to our bones?
They become thin.
So all aging is a result ofimproper protein production.
So then the question arises, does it really
matter what we eat?
Does nutrition really have aneffect if the cell doesn't even
have the receptor sites after20 years of emotional abuse
to even receive or let in the nutrients that
are necessary for its health?
>> If we know the thoughts of a person,
we will best know them by their addiction,
their continuous over 24 hoursin a continuum of what emotions
they display in their body,we shall know their thoughts.
>> I hate you.
>> We never, ever reincarnateto the "I love you so much
people."
We always reincarnate to the situations
of why we hate ourself.
>> I hate you.
[screams]
You idiot!
You suck!
Look at you, you're ugly!
You are worth nothing!
You're getting old!
I hate you!
>> It makes you wonder, doesn't it?
If thoughts can do that to water,
imagine what thoughts can do to us.
>> No one has ever came alongand ever given you sufficient,
intelligent knowledgeabout your beautiful self,
how you work from the inside out.
Why do you have addictions?
Because you have nothing better.
You have dreamed of nothingbetter because no one has ever
taught you how to dream better.
>> There's data now that whenpeople are addicted to whether
it's cocaine, heroin, nicotine, alcohol,
all of them seem to share aproperty of blocking the growth
of new brain cells.
And yet, it can completely come back
when the drug taking has stopped.
>> Oh, poopy.
>> If you don't see the traps,you have to go through the crap
until you see the traps.
Because if you don't see it, it's you're
only teaching machine.
It's your only way for you to come
to understand something new.
So the universe bringsthese things to your door.
And there is learning in them for you
if you are willing to reflect upon them
and think beyond the rigid mindset.
>> Can I--
Wow.
--borrow some toothpaste?
Thanks.
>> When I talk about we disappearing,
I don't mean that we physically disappear.
What I mean is that we move outof the area of the brain that
has to do with our personality, that
has to do with our association to people,
our association to places, ourassociation to things and times
and events.
We don't exist in the associative centers
in our brain that reaffirms our identity
and reaffirms our personality.
>> We now have science to backup what our thoughts do and how
they make our bodies weak.
A lot of scientists are actually studying this
with behavioralkinesiology and other ways,
showing that thoughts make your body weak
and thoughts pretty much create your reality.
They create what you're goingto think about yourself.
If you're fat but you think you're wonderful,
you'll be wonderful.
But most women, we're compared all the time
with impossible images from Barbie to models.
And so we think that ourwhole currency is how we look
and how other people are going to perceive us.
And we're always up againstimpossible standards.
>> What is relative to their ownemotional addiction are movies
and dramas and news and allthe media that is so beautiful
today and providing peoplewith experiences without having
to be there.
And yet, and yet, that doesnot define human greatness.
>> They're so hypnotized bytheir environment through
the media, through television,through people living
and creating ideals thateverybody struggles to become
that no one can actually becomein terms of physical appearance
and definitions of beauty andvalor that are all illusions
that most people surrender andlive their life in mediocracy.
And they may live that lifeand the soul may never really,
their desire may neverreally rise to the surface.
So they may want to be something else.
But if it does rise to the surface
and they ask themselvesif there is something more
or why am I here, what is the purpose of life,
where am I going, what happens when I die--
they start to ask those questions.
They start to flirt andinteract with the perception
that they may be having a nervous breakdown.
And in reality, what they're doing
is that they're old conceptsof how they view their life
and the world start to fall apart.
>> That's why very fewpeople make this journey.
Because it's deeply unsettling.
All of the molds that we havelived by have to be broken.
And we have to liberate ourselves in this way.
And sometimes there's an awkward period
between the comfort that we knew before
and the real state of comfort when
we are the lord of our being, which
follows that interval of chaos.
Most people, when they get into the chaos
give up hope and go back tothe old, false securities.
They get to live a reasonable life.
And they get to die in some sort of peace,
but they haven't advancedspiritually at all
in that experiment that we called a life.
>> We're in completely newterritory in our brain.
And because we're incompletely new territory,
we're rewiring the brain, literally
reconnecting to a newconcept, then, ultimately,
it changes us from the inside out.
If I change my mind,will I change my choices?
If I change my choices, will my life change?
Why can't I change?
What am I addicted to?
What will I lose that I'mchemically attached to?
And what person, place, thing, time, or event
that I'm chemically attachedto that I don't want
to lose because I may have to experience
the chemical withdrawal from that?
Hence, the human drama.
>> This life is but a page in anenormous book in which we will
always be who we are, but alwayswith the inherent needling
of ambitious pursuit, a pursuitthat takes us from the boring
tedium of selfreflection, of self hate,
and to self creation of new dreams.
And we are ambitious gods.
>> Well, it's the only planetin the Milky Way that has
habitation that is steepedin enormous subjugation
of religion?
Do you know why that is?
It's because people have set up right and wrong.
>> I did say there is no right and wrong.
Does that mean that it's a free for all?
Absolutely not.
I mean, the problem that Ihave with right and wrong
in those categories is notthat I want a free for all,
but that right and wrongdoesn't go nearly far enough.
>> They have never sinned.
They have never wronged.
Wronged, yes, in moralconfrontations with society.
But that's their adversity.
That's why they're here, to wrong,
to learn, search, and use the wisdom of that
to create yet greater dreams.
>> There's nobodykeeping records up there,
the records are here.
And I'm going to have to deal with them.
That's far more painful than a record
keeping God up in the skies.
So anyone who's setting outon the path of enlightenment
will be absolutely impeccablein everything that they do.
Is it because of fear of damnation?
No.
Or of the punishment of Godor because I have sinned
and haven't got forgiveness?
No, no, no,
I mean, these are allexcuses that keeps us away
from the problem.
The really enlightened person will
see every action has a reactionwith which I must deal.
And if I am wise, I'm not going to do
stuff that will cause me tohave to face it and resolve it
and balance in my soul later.
That's the real criterion.
>> That God or thefundamental level of reality,
depending on what peopledescribe, really, I mean,
theoretically, you should be everywhere.
It's something exactly how it would manifest
or how god would manifest in the world
is a more complicated issue.
But I think that certainly, from a more
traditional religious perspective,
people have kind of gottenaway from God the person.
>> There's been a great shiftfrom God up there or out there
or in there, wherever, to the god within.
And that's an improvement.
But we don't want to get some idea
that God can be within andstill be separate, which
is what most people think.
They think the god within is like some
of those alien movies, you know,where some being breaks out
from my chest.
God is not within in that stupid sense.
What it means is that in God, welive, move, and have our being,
that we are ourselves, in fact, are divine.
>> What's the relation betweenmy god self and your god self?
There is no relationship becausethere's only one god self.
It's in both of us.
>> All people are divine people.
Is it not ironic that all would say
that this is the voice of thedevil or that this is heresy?
If this is heresy, thenwhat is promised to everyone
is an imbuement with God that is inseparable.
>> Knowledge allows the brainto begin to become wired.
And we will begin to see what has always existed.
But because we live in thoseroutine automatic programs
or unable to see because we're processing mind
from the familiar, to learn knowledge means
we're learning new things.
And to learn new things means we're
gathering information andcreating the circuitry now
to begin to develop the sensitivity
to begin to see things for the first time.
>> There is enormous potentialto change the kind of behaviors
and characteristic patternsthat we've fallen into.
In fact, if you've listenedand have remembered anything
that I've said, your physiology is different
than it was before that.
That is something that EricKandel, the recent winner
of the Nobel Prize in medicine of science,
said very eloquently at atalk, that, basically, memory
has been encoded, yourgenetic structure has changed.
And while we previously wouldtalk about the nervous system
as this very rigid thing that didn't
have much capacity for change, we
now know that, on many levels, that isn't true.
And actually, there's a tremendous amount
of plasticity, which basicallymeans ability to change,
within the nervous system.
>> And if you look at thestructure of the human brain
in detail, you see that it'sactually specifically designed,
it's carefully engineered toexperience the unified field,
to experience the unity of life.
>> We are all connected.
I mean, I think the mostfundamental thing is we're all
connected by an energy field.
We swim in a sea of light, basically,
which is the zero point field.
And I say, first of all, you have
to get away from the wholeidea of separateness.
Because separateness is thebiggest problem in the world
now.
>> You take this notion ofan entangled universe and you
apply it to human experiencebecause human experience is
part of the universe as well.
And you say, well, let's assumethat experience is entangled,
then how would it manifest?
And we can start going through ways
in which it could manifest.
If there's a connection with another mind,
we call it telepathy.
If there's a connection to someother object somewhere else,
we call it clairvoyance.
If there's a connection thathappens to transcend time,
we call it precognition.
If there's a connection in whichmy intention is expressed out
in the world some way, we might call it
psychokinesis or distant healingor something of that sort.
So you can go through a list of perhaps 12
kinds of psychic experiencethat have gotten labels
over the years, like telepathy.
But this is really just the tip of the iceberg.
>> People ask why are you sointerested in the Planck scale,
the very ultimately tinyin terms of spirituality.
Because obviously spiritualityis out there, it's everywhere.
And the answer is that, yes, the Planck
scale is ultimately small,but it's also everywhere.
Wherever you go, there it is.
And because it's holographic and repeats
at different scales like fractals
throughout the universe.
>> I would say that what quantumphysics is to the 20th century,
whatever is going to bethe new bridging of science
and spirituality, that will be to the 21st century.
>> We are all creating the future.
We are all creating what is outside of us.
None of us are innocent in that regard.
If there's something out there we don't like,
we can't really turn our backs on it
because we're co-creatorssomehow or other.
And we have to do the right things
to try to get the futurethat is best for all of us.
>> We have talked so far aboutthe freedom of our own personal
life and quantum physics, thatwe are freeing and freeing
and freeing our reality to ultimate realities.
Yes, of course, they exist.
But after we haveaccomplished them, what then?
What next?
When do we make the shift from me to one?
When are we the subconscious mind?
When are we the knowledge ofthe one transpersonal self?
>> When you start to realizewhat your true nature is,
there is no question andthere is no answer anymore.
And there is just the sudden realization.
Now you come back from the rabbit hole
and you start to perform in thisworld of illusion and wonder
and magic with that understanding
that you're never going todie and you were never born.
>> Choice, by consciousness,out of these possible events,
the actual event of experience comes in.
And so for the first time,science encounters free will.
Consciousness is free because there
is no mathematicaldescription of the subject.
Only objects can be described mathematically and only
to the extent that they are possibilities.
The question still remainsparamount, who is the chooser?
>> Are all realities existing simultaneously?
Is there a possibility that allpotentials exist side by side?
[whooshing]
>> Welcome to flat land, aworld of only two dimensions,
only forwards andbackwards, left and right.
In this world, there is no up and no down.
>> I said to Ray, where's Dotty?
He said, well, she's out in line.
>> Ah!
>> Huh?
>> What is that?
What the bleep is that thing?
Huh?
>> In this world, the twodimensional beings that live
here have no concept ofthree dimensional objects.
These two-dimensional flatlanders
have no understanding of cubes,spheres, tetrahedrons or yours
truly.
From their 2Dperspective, my 3D finger
looks something like this.
[gasping]
>> What the flat earth is that?
>> Did you see that?
Run!
Ah!
Ah!
>> Hello, little circle.
>> Ah!
>> Uh-uh, fear of theunknown or, should I say,
not yet known.
It's a puzzle.
If we see only what weknow, how does anyone ever
see anything new?
The unknown, how do we ever get out of our box?
Hello, little circle.
[gasping]
Don't be afraid.
>> Who said that?
Where are you?
>> This is always the tricky part to explain.
I'm in anotherdimension, another space.
I am above you.
>> Ah!
Never, never use that word.
>> What word?
>> The A-word.
>> Above?
>> Ah!
It's forbidden.
>> Well, what do you think it means?
>> I don't know.
And I don't want to know.
You can be severely punishedif you use that word.
Are you a ghost?
>> I hope not.
I just have a different perspective than you do.
I can see things in a way you can't yet.
>> Oh, yeah?
Like what?
>> Well, OK, you have asafe hidden in your pantry.
And inside it, you have 12coins, a will, and a passport.
>> How did you know that?
What are you?
Are you a god?
>> Well, no more than you.
You see, since I am above you--
>> Ah!
>> --in the third dimension,I can see inside things
in your world.
>> Third dimension?
You are a crazy ghost.
There's only two.
Look.
>> So if I were to toughthe inside of your stomach,
how would I do that?
>> Well, you'd have to cut through my skin.
Otherwise, it's impossible.
>> Oh.
[laughs]
Stop.
Stop.
>> Ready for more?
>> More what?
>> Dimensions.
>> Oh.
>> Directions.
>> No.
Yes.
But-- But there aren't any more.
What will happen to me?
What will I become?
>> You'd have to become it to know.
>> OK.
>> Excellent.
>> Oh.
I never knew.
>> Isn't it funny?
That which we are most afraidof is what thrills us the most.
>> That has the effect ofrandomizing their X-spins.
And nothing else interestinghappened to them after that.
OK.
Um, good.
It's an easy way to get a laugh here.
>> So you can't ask them theiropinion because you know what
they're going to tell you.
You're starting to act different.
I liked you better the other way.
And that's a great signthat you're making a change.
>> You can edit that, though,if you had to, though,
couldn't you?
>> Not prettily.
[grunts]
>> Who can do the Heimlich?
>> OK, are we rolling?
[speaking japanese]
>> I study quantum physics.
I sometimes teach it.
I have written a book onquantum physics and many books
explicating the meaning of quantum physics.
>> After my PhD from Harvard, I went to CERN,
the European laboratory for particle research.
But perhaps I'm best known for the discovery
of the now famous "N equals 1locally supersymmetric flipped
SU[5] grand unified field theory.
>> Don't make the mistake ofthinking that the scientific
community is scientific.
[laughing]
>> Two points.
First of all, I want to thankDavid for healthy skepticism
is important.
And extraordinary claimsrequire extraordinary proof.
Now, the problem is that peopledefending the conventional
approach to consciousness, brainequals mind equals computer,
behave as if they've got proof and we don't.
And they got [bleep].
OK?
>> Which formed the neuralnets in the first place,
which is what's the mind?
The mind-- thank you, this iscalled divine intervention--
[laughing]
From above.
But he has feet of clay.
>> I got involved withthis because my evidence--
No, start over.
OK.
>> Go back in time.
>> I can go back and fix that.
OK.
OK.
My name is Lynne McTaggart.
I'm author of a book called "The Field."
>> I'm Dr. Daniel Monti.
I'm a physician with specialtytraining in psychiatry
and human behavior.
I'm on the full-time faculty atthe Jefferson Medical College.
>> I've heard some peoplesay that, you know,
consciousness is this wonderfulproperty in the universe that
has a predilection for the human brain.
If that's the case, then consciousness
is about three pounds and looks a little bit
like a gray cauliflower.
It's showtime.
>> I'll tell you a little about myself.
Oh, the light is blinking already.
See, this is whathappens whenever I speak.
Weird things happen.
OK.
All right, well.
When I hold it, it stays on.
What does that mean?
All right.
Oh, it's OK.
Maybe God wants me to meet you.
>> I actually did this at aconference when we asked people
how many people have had agut feeling and so on, and 80%
of people say.
And then they say, among those of you who
are very skeptical of unconventional claims,
how many of you, meaninglike 30% of the audience who
doesn't believe in any ofthis stuff, how many of you
guys have had interesting gut feelings that
turned out to be right?
80%.
So when people are skepticalabout unusual things,
it's completelyunderstandable because there's
all kinds of nonsense out there.
But when you bring those phenomena into the lab
and you exclude all of theordinary ways of understanding
them, it turns out that theydo have a psychic component.
>> Here we are actually filming great thinkers.
Everyone in this room is a great thinker now
that we've got them thinking.
That's always the trick, isn't it?
>> You probably have more to say about this.
>> No.
>> Sorry about that.
>> It's OK.
>> --multiple personalitydisorder have to say about
the seat of consciousness?
And the second one is whatmade you want to become
a physicist at the age of 50?
>> OK, well, I guess,multiple personality disorder.
I actually wanted tobecome a physicist as young
as the age of four, believe it or not.
>> As we become more and more inner self-managed,
we will manifest the qualitiesof these deeper levels down
the rabbit hole.
And so we become a Qigong masterwhere we can influence things
from thousands of miles away.
>> So if we begin to look at all that,
it seems to me the only way outthat I can understand is there
is an intelligent presence.
There is a kind of a onemindedness that I call it,
or God, if you want to call it that.
Ponder that for a while.
>> [laughs]
That's perfect.
>> OK, um--
>> What did I say?
What are you gonna do with that?
A bite, he took a bite out of nowhere.
[music playing]
[MUSIC - ELAINE HENDRIX, "WHAT THE BLEEP?"]
[SINGING] Come on, it'stime to ride down the hole.
So say bye-bye to old thoughts and paradigms.
Looky, looky, looky what's inside your mind.
Sails are up, start your trip.
Feelings strike, your memory's lit.
Now you're watching, thoughtsare talking over and over
and over and over.
What the bleep do we know?
What the bleep do we know?
What the bleep do we know?
What the, what the, what the bleep?
Yesterday is everyday whenyou decide to change the way,
you never meant to sit in place.
Listen, listen, listen to create the day.
Charge the pod and take a dip.
Outside's in, the matter splits.
An observer takes it further, over and over
and over and over.
What the bleep do we know?
What the bleep do we know?
What the bleep do we know?
What the, what the, what the bleep?
How far down the rabbithole are you willing to go?
All that you will ever see ismore and more of a mystery.
What the bleep do we know?
What the bleep do we know?
What the bleep do we know?
What the, what the, what the bleep?
What the bleep do we know?
Ponder if you will be ours.
What the bleep do we know?
Is god above or are you god?
What the bleep do we know?
There are no answers, just decisions.
No right, no wrong, take your position.
What the bleep?
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