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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?