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Is the divorce over?
Are spirit and science
tying 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 the universe...
marched hand in hand.
Ancient Sumer
- There was a god of astronomy...
a god of horticulture,
a god of irrigation...
and the temple priests were
the scribes and technologists...
investigating these fields of knowledge.
Ancient Greece
- Philosophers asking the questions of why are we here...
developed the theory of the atom,
celestial movements and human ethics.
Medieval Europe-
The Western church arose 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 forward...
and 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 to suppress science anymore...
the church and science divided
up knowledge and human endeavor.
Descartes invented dualism.
The church had the unseen...
science the seen.
And materialism was born.
An uneasy truce.
Scientists were 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. The
creator is nothing, nowhere.
We are random mutations...
simply a carrier of D.N.A. 's
relentless quest for more...
in a meaningless universe.
And meanwhile, both science and
religion were hitting the wall.
If everything was mechanistic
and God was the Holy 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 universe
is essentially nonphysical.
Time and space Are just constructs...
of this non-materialness.
And today, renegade scientists
are meeting with religious leaders.
Conferences pushing forward a meeting
of science and spirit are springing up.
As the 20th century blew open
the doors of a mechanistic view...
will the 21 st century
blow down the iron wall...
between the church and laboratory?
This is your IsNewsReal
reporter... signing off.
The rabbit hole and how deep
and how far we want to go...
is really how far, how much do you
want to discover about your true nature?
Alice went down the rabbit hole,
where she met the Mad Hatter.
The hatter was mad.
And the idea was, you want to get out
of the rabbit hole after you've gone in.
So there's two stages to science.
There's-There's the crazy part,
where you 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 interesting
thing about science...
um, um, the interesting
thing about physics...
is that it is a genuinely
new and novel way...
of trying to come to
grips with the world.
Um, um, I think the experimental
method, which is important to physics...
is a very different business
from the method of revelation...
or the method of meditation
or something like that.
I don't think it's true
that, for example...
adherents of, say, Buddhism...
um, um, could imagine
changing their beliefs...
based on the outcomes of some
experiments people do with electrons.
Why this apparent rift between
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 about
the origins of the world.
Now, in fact, any biblical
scholar will tell you-
this is not news
- that the Book of Genesis...
was never meant to be about
the origins of the world.
But many churchmen believed
that in the Book of Genesis...
you had actual sort of
live news, like CNN...
about the beginnings of creation.
And, therefore, you had many
people down through the ages...
like the famous Archbishop James
Ussher in Ireland in 1650...
who calculated all the ages
of the patriarchs back along...
and worked out, to
his own satisfaction...
that the creation of
the world occurred...
in the year 4004 B.C. on the 17th
of September at 9:00 in the morning.
I think that there must be a
scientific explanation for spirituality.
I don't think there's been
a good one until recently.
To me, the only one that
makes sense is that...
proto-consciousness, Platonic
values, goodness, truth...
exist at this fundamental
level of space-time geometry...
which can influence our
actions if we're open to them...
and interconnects us
to all other beings...
to the universe at large.
Science creates the
stories that we live by...
and science has told
us a very bleak story.
It's told us that we're some
sort 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're alone,
that we are separate...
and that we are this
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 one of the most destructive things.
It's the thing that creates
all the problems in the world.
And we're now realizing that that
paradigm is wrong, that we aren't separate.
We are all one. We're all together.
At the very nethermost element
of our being, we are connected.
And so we're trying to
understand and absorb...
what are the implications of that?
What does this really
mean to me and 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...
versus the 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 step
up in the right direction.
I think the key aspect
of the new paradigm-
at least in medicine,
which is my little piece-
um, is that consciousness
is real and has an impact.
We have to go beyond our senses...
to create a new paradigm.
It may very well be that
what's going on inside of you-
in your brain, in your nervous system,
in your nature of observation...
how memory works, how mind works-
It may very well be that
what is happening there...
is some kind of observer/matter
interrelationship...
which is indeed making
things real for you...
affecting how you perceive reality.
It's not changing the reality out there.
You know, you're not changing
big 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 the things...
how you feel about things,
how you sense the world.
The infinite information...
that the brain is processing
every single second...
tells us that there's more to
the world than we're perceiving.
However, every single time...
we're immersed in an
experience with our senses-
seeing, smelling, tasting, feeling-
as we're immersed
sensually in our reality.
We know nothing about reality...
and all of our sense of
so-called reality out there...
is filtered through our sense organs.
The brain processes 400 billion
bits of information a second...
but we're only aware of 2,000 of those.
That means that reality's
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 deal 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 taking
that information...
and they're storing
it, but they're not-
You're not really able to
get it to mean anything...
until you actually put it all together.
So in some senses, it requires the editor's
table to really put the whole thing together...
to put the movie together of what your
life and your world is actually about.
If I get out of bed
in the morning, okay...
and I suddenly decide, um,
to take very seriously...
the claim-which is
surely a true claim-
that I don't know for sure if my
eyes are working correctly, okay?
So that for all I know,
even though it looks...
like there's a stable floor
by the side of my bed...
there might be a cliff or
something like that, okay?
Um, if I am unable to
order those possibilities...
in terms of probabilities
that I assign to them...
then I'm not gonna get out of bed.
Seems to me I'm paralyzed in the
most literal sense of the word, okay?
I'm not, um, um-
I'm gonna have no idea how to
literally take the next step.
It's definitely the case
that we know that my eyes...
might in principle 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 to
get out of bed in the morning...
we are assigning probabilities
to the various hypotheses...
compatible with my
seeing a 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 seeing the floor is a hallucination,
and there's a cliff there.
By getting out of bed in the morning...
you endorse one of those hypotheses
as more likely than another.
Well, ultimate reality, I think...
very frequently depends a lot
on how a person perceives it...
and what they actually think is
- is the real reality of our world.
If the brain is processing 400
billion bits of information...
and our awareness is only on 2,000...
that means reality's happening
in the brain all the time.
It's receiving that information,
and yet we haven't integrated it.
But if we're given knowledge and
information outside of convention-
outside the box of convention-
or say we merged quantum
physics and neurophysiology...
and the brain is asked to contemplate-
or we're-we're asked to
contemplate on that...
and examine the what-ifs and
possibilities and potentials...
and associate our knowns with
our experience of what we know...
and repeat it over and over again...
the brain's gonna start to integrate
two independent neuronets...
and it's gonna create a new vision.
And that new vision's gonna
be like taking a flashlight...
and shining it from those
that have to do with our body...
and our environment and time...
slightly over, in the dark...
and looking at something new.
That's called realization.
You okay? I heard you scream
earlier. Was it another dream?
You were an Indian...
watching Columbus's ship
materialize out of thin air.
Wow!
And this medicine man kept hitting you.
Cool! That's
- Hey.
Maybe it was a past life...
or a parallel reality or a future life.
Get real.
Or maybe that dream was
trying to tell you the truth.
I guess it just depends
on what you think is real.
Maybe you should try
different anxiety pills.
My pills are fine, okay? 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 does
quantum mechanics matter...
given that it's all
- 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.
You still have to go to work, drive
your car and do all the rest of it.
From a second point
of view, it actually-
it infiltrates everything in the world,
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 the
assumptions of the world?
I finally got it. I got it as a result
of looking at quantum mechanics...
and comparing it to classical mechanics.
They present two very
different ways of thinking...
about the way that the world
works and about what we are.
So, from a classical
perspective, we are machines.
And in machines, there's no
room for a conscious experience.
Doesn't matter if a machine
dies. You can kill the machine.
You can throw it in the
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 of
thinking about the world.
It's pointed to by quantum mechanics...
which suggested that the world
is not this clockwork thing...
but it's more like an organism.
It's a highly interconnected
organismic thing of some type...
which extends through space and time.
In that kind of environment, what
I think and the way that I behave...
has a much greater impact, not only on
myself, but on the rest of the world...
than it would if 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.
That's
- I mean, in a sense, that's really the key...
for why a worldview change is important.
Let's talk about the subatomic world.
And then we'll talk about what
it's telling us about reality.
The first thing I want to tell
you 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 and 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 whole range...
of debatable hypotheses,
thoughts, feelings, intuitions...
as 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, from
the practical standpoint...
was vastly more successful than
anything we had ever seen before.
This is the kind of situation
that produces the tension...
that all of the investigations of
- foundations of quantum mechanics...
are feeding off of since then.
Because on the one hand, this is a-
this is an acutely
paradoxical, puzzling...
conceptually confusing theory.
On the other hand, we have
no option along the lines...
of throwing it 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 of laws that govern the universe.
In our everyday classical world, meaning
roughly our size and timescales...
things are described by
Newton's laws of motion...
set down hundreds and
hundreds of years ago.
And they work very well for billiard
balls and cannonballs 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...
particles may be in multiple
places at the same time.
They may behave as waves smeared
out spatially and temporally.
They may be interconnected
over great distances.
They may, um...
be unified into one quantum state
- into one state...
governed by one wave function.
And the borderline, the threshold...
this curtain between the quantum
world and the classical world...
is really mysterious.
It's called sometimes the
collapse of the wave function...
because at the quantum world, everything is
in superposition and multiple possibilities.
And in the classical world,
these multiple possibilities...
seem to collapse to
particular, definite choices.
So, everything is in
one particular place.
Quantum mechanics is really the
play and display of information...
the play and 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.
An ocean of pure potentiality.
An ocean of abstract,
potential existence.
We call it the "unified field,
" or "superstring field. "
And that's what we're made of.
Connectivity among all things...
is a basic constituent
of the fabric of reality.
It's very difficult to
wrap your mind around that.
But Erwin Schrodinger said - He's one
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 quantum mechanics
that makes it very, very strange.
And it doesn't seem to fit
in with our ordinary world-
our ordinary experience, but,
in fact, it actually does.
Wanna shoot some hoops?
Now, 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's court...
of unending possibilities.
Court rules. You gotta
sink the last one.
That hurt.
- It never touched you.
Right.
- And... it's not solid.
This ball. It's mostly empty.
We were all taught in school
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 a hydrogen
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 down in
scale, in the emptiness...
we eventually come to a level...
the fundamental level
of space-time geometry.
The fine basement
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, even
of matter, is actually empty.
Most people think that
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 mass energy.
Each gram being E = mc^2 kind of energy.
Now, that's a huge number. But
what does it mean practically?
Practically, if I can assume
that the universe is flat-
and more and more astronomical data...
is showing it's pretty darn flat -
if I can assume that,
then if I take the volume-
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 vacuum and
I take the latent energy in that...
there is a trillion
times more energy there...
than in all of the mass
of all of the stars...
and all of the planets out
to 20 billion light-years.
That's big. That's big.
And if consciousness allows you to
control even a small fraction of that...
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 that
quantum physics implies...
which makes us understand this or
even think about this new paradigm...
the thing which is that
there's this underground-
There's gotta be a realm of existence...
which cannot be ever
touched on or seen...
which bubbles into the
existence giving rise...
to our understanding of the world.
The tighter physics have tried
to grasp onto physical reality...
to understand what
it'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 till they 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 more things...
but what makes up things are ideas...
concepts, information.
And like I said, it never touches.
Another strange fact is that objects
never really touch each other.
When I dribble this ball,
the atoms of the ball...
and the atoms of the
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.
Well, how long has it been?
- I'll be late.
The first inkling in physics that we got
that time ain't what it seemed to be...
uh, came with relativity.
That was the first inkling.
That time was not absolute.
It was not the absolute
ruler of the universe.
That God Almighty did not say, "One
second, one second, one second, one second.
One meter, one meter, one meter. "
You're in a gravitational field.
Your head is actually moving...
at a slightly faster
rate than your feet.
The second law of thermodynamics says
that things unwind and move forward.
So that gives an arrow of time.
But at the quantum world,
in the microworld...
the second law of thermodynamics
doesn't seem to hold.
And things can go
backwards or be timeless.
The fundamental equations of physics...
have a property which is referred
to as time reversal symmetry.
And what time reversal symmetry
means is that a set of laws...
which are time reversal symmetric...
are laws that have
the following feature.
For any process that's in
accord with those laws...
the same process going backwards is
exactly as much in accord with those laws.
Okay? That ought to mean that, um-
that milk jumps out of coffee as
often as it dissolves into it...
that people get younger-looking as
often as they get older-looking...
that we have the same kind of
access vis-a-vis knowledge...
to the future as we do to the past...
that by acting now we ought to
be able to influence 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 most
unpalatable ideas still...
in spite of the fact that quantum
physics has been around a long time...
is the possibility or the notion...
that the future can have a
causative effect on the present.
We believe that the past can have
a causative effect on the present.
I hold a ball. I drop it. It falls.
Cause, 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 conscious experience
that it seems we move forward in time.
In quantum theory you can
also go backwards in time.
And there's some suggestion
that processes in the brain...
related to consciousness
project backwards in time.
For example, in the late 197 Os...
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 having neurosurgery 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 side...
that was related to that,
record from it electrically...
and ask the patient when he or she
felt the stimulus on the little finger.
He would also stimulate at that
particular area of the 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 report it a fraction
of a second later after the stimulus.
And when you stimulate it directly,
the patient would report it immediately.
He found just the opposite.
When you stimulated 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 conclusion
that somehow the brain...
was projecting information
backwards in time.
So that it did take a finite amount
of time to get to the sensory cortex...
but the brain projected
it backwards in time...
so that the conscious
perception was that...
the stimulus was felt when
the pinch actually occurred.
There have been some studies which have
shown that when people are beginning...
to move a hand or beginning
to say something...
that there's actually activity in
certain nerve cells of the brain...
even before they become consciously
aware of what they're trying to do.
It seems to me I often do things and then decide
later what to do but I've already done them.
I'll be late.
- You can always go back in time.
What's the matter? Remember. It's empty.
How do you know this shit?
I read Dr. Quantum comics.
Everybody thinks it's just kid
stuff, but I know it's real.
It's how I do my magic on the court.
So, what they taught us in
school isn't really the way it is.
And that our senses are
playing tricks on us.
You just gotta wonder. What is this
reality that we find ourselves in?
Quantum physics says it's
all just waves of information.
Do I believe that? Ah, I hope so.
Yipes!
It'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.
And doing it constantly,
each and every time we look.
And here we are, the granddaddy
of all quantum weirdness:
the infamous double-slit experiment.
To understand this experiment, we
first need to see how particles...
or little balls of matter, act.
If we randomly shoot a small object,
say a marble, at the screen...
we see 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
band duplicated to the right.
Now, let's look at waves.
The waves 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 meets
the bottom of another wave...
they cancel each other out.
So now there is an interference
pattern on the back wall.
Places where the two tops meet are the
highest intensity- the bright lines-
and where they cancel, there is nothing.
So, when we throw things, that
is, 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 bit of 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 tiny
bits 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 like waves...
not like little marbles.
How? How could pieces of matter...
create 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 other...
and creating that pattern. "
So they decide to shoot
electrons through one at a time.
There is no way they could
interfere 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...
to hit the wall like a particle.
But mathematically, it's even stranger.
It goes through both slits
and it goes through neither.
And it goes through just one and
it goes through just the other.
All of these possibilities are
in superposition with each other.
But physicists were
completely 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've imagined.
When they observed, the electron went
back to behaving like a little marble.
It produced a pattern of two bands...
not an interference pattern of many.
The very act of
measuring, or observing...
which slit it went through...
meant it only went
through one, not both.
The electron decided
to act differently...
as though it was aware
it was being watched.
And it was here that
physicists stepped forever...
into the strange,
never-world of quantum events.
What is matter, marbles or waves?
And waves of what?
And what does an observer
have to do with any of this?
The observer collapsed
the wave function...
simply by observing.
We are always the observer.
But sometimes we identify
with the events so much so...
that we even lose the
aspect of the observer.
That's why the materialist
gets totally lost...
and thinks that we could
do without the observer.
The physics data tells us that the-
that an object itself is
really a simplification...
for what's 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...
or what we choose to examine it with...
actually changes the properties
of what we observe to be out there.
Is this the observer...
and which is so intricate
to understanding...
the wacky, weird world...
of quantum particles and how they react?
Is this then the observer?
And even though we cannot
have a quantum field...
without the observation of
scientists who 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're perceiving
the field mathematically...
from different angles of perception.
We don't know in quantum mechanics...
how to hook ourselves as
observers up with the world.
We don't know how to treat
ourselves as observers...
as just another part of the physical
system that we're describing.
The only way we know how to do quantum
mechanics as it's traditionally formulated...
is to keep the observer outside
of the system you're describing.
Uh, the minute you put him in,
you get all these paradoxes.
And we're forced to say things
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'd better not try to analyze
that second part of the sentence...
in terms of applying quantum mechanics
to it, because it's gonna break down. "
That's why there are these two separate
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're
ever going to mathematize...
or put into mathematical formula...
this very act in which a conscious
observer comes up with the answer.
People say, "Oh, the measuring
instruments, 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 at all.
When you are not looking,
they are waves of possibility.
When we are looking, then
they're particles of experience.
A particle, which we think
of as a solid thing...
really exists in a
so-called "superposition"...
a spread-out wave of
possible locations...
and it's in all of those at once.
The instant you check on it...
it snaps into just one of
those possible positions.
It's easy to generate situations...
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 court.
We don't have any idea what a
state like that would look like.
Um, 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 the
law of quantum mechanics...
asking the question,
"Where is a basketball...
whose psi is uniformly distributed
over a whole basketball court?"
is the logical equivalent of asking about,
say, the marital status of the number five.
Okay? It's not that you
don't know the answer-
you don't happen to know whether the
number five is married or a bachelor-
it's that the question somehow is
radically inappropriate in the first place.
The number five doesn't
have a marital status.
There's nothing there to ask about.
And similarly, a basketball whose wave
function was uniformly distributed...
over the entire basketball court...
would not have a position that
could even coherently be asked about.
Now, um, the crux of the measurement
problem is precisely that...
although the Schrodinger equation
predicts under certain circumstances-
circumstances which we basically know
how to reproduce in the laboratory-
that basketballs should
go into states like that-
states where there fails
to be any intelligible fact-
um, any-any sensible question
even about where they are.
And yet, when we go look
- look at the basketball court in situations like that...
we invariably see either
a basketball over here...
or a basketball over there
or a basketball over there.
The fact that we see the basketball
in some specific location...
as 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 what its location is-
The fact that we always see
it in some definite location...
is an explicit violation of
these equations of motion.
And it's exactly there that the
measurement problem comes up.
When you observe, things happen.
When you don't, they don't.
Superheroes use superposition...
with the world being potential
strips of reality until we choose.
Heroes choose what they want-
being in many places at once, experiencing
many possibilities all at once...
and then collapsing on the one.
The question is, how far down
the rabbit hole do you wanna go?
Your own mind is creating multiple
possibilities in your subconscious.
The superpositions of possibilities
are in your subconscious.
I mean, you may be consciously aware
of them, but they exist, I think...
in superposition of
multiple possibilities... -
which after a while will
collapse to one or the other.
...project or plan into the future
or cast a thought ahead of itself.
Nice shot.
But the great, great grandaddy
of wacky quantum weirdness...
is entanglement.
If time reversal symmetry
destroys the notion of time...
then entanglement crushes
our experience of space.
Two objects, two electrons
created together are entangled.
Send one to the other
side of the universe.
Now, do something to one...
and the other responds instantly.
Instantly.
So, either information is
traveling 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 means everything is still touching.
Space is just the construct...
that gives the illusion that
there are separate objects.
Are we far enough down
the rabbit hole yet?
You now can see in numerous
labs around the United States...
objects that are large enough
to be seen by the naked eye...
and they are in two
places simultaneously.
You can actually take
a photograph of that. -
Now, I suppose if you showed a
photograph, they'd say, "Oh. Great.
"Here's this nice blob of colored
light, and I see there's...
"you know, a bit of it
over here and another bit-
So you've got a picture of
two dots. What's the big deal?"
Superposition is pre-detection.
What I was speaking about in
the film is post-detection.
Now, under normal circumstances...
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 multiple
positions simultaneously, not just two...
but actually, as many
as 3,000 positions.
Uh, 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.
You say, "Look right in the chamber.
You can see it right there. "
"I see two things there. "
"No, no. That's not two things-
That's one thing. It's the
same thing in two places. "
The tricky point here is that
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 think-
I don't think people really believe it.
And I don't mean that people say, "Oh, you're
lying," or "Oh, the scientists are confused. "
I
- I think it is so mysterious that 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 1/3,000th?
Well, you can't weigh one of them.
- Why?
Because it's one particle.
It's just
- It's one indivisible particle.
But if it's, uh
- But if it's in different locations...
can't you put a scale under one?
- No, it's inseparable.
It's not a-This is the tricky
conceptual part that you-
It's not 3,000 separate parts.
Even though it looks that way?
- Right.
You can look at it in that
- You can't actually see the one with 3,000.
You can look at the simpler ones
that are two or three or four.
And you can see
the- You can see-
That's to say, if you go on
- If you go onto the Web...
you'll see photographs of these.
You'll see these little
dots floating in space.
These are the different
parts of one object.
It's not- They're
not separable, uh-
It's not four different objects,
or six different objects.
It's one wave function. It's one object.
That's a real brain fart, isn't it?
'Cause when you think about it, you just...
"Wait a minute. No, no, no.
They're here, here, here.
So it's obviously one, two, three. "
No, and you can't pull
one away from the others.
If you try to pull one
away from the others...
the entire thing will just disappear.
And then, furthermore, you've
seen Star Trek and whatnot.
"Beam me up, Scotty. "
-"Beam me up, Scotty. "
So it all seems sort of, "Oh,
well, what does that really mean?"
But you've gotta really stop
and think about what that means-
That it's the same object and
it's in two places at once.
People tinker in the lab, and they get
angry about things, and they have lunch...
and they go home and
they lead their lives...
just as though nothing utterly
astounding is happening...
because that's how you
have to go about it-
And yet, there's this
completely amazing magic...
sitting right in front of your eyes.
Where the hell are you? I've
got a studio full of people...
but, oh, my God!
There's no photographer.
Where, oh, 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, oscillator, EPROM...
some resistors and capacitors.
Basically, that's it.
We wrap one in aluminum foil.
We put it in an
electrically-grounded Faraday cage.
The other we set on a
tabletop around which...
four very well-qualified
meditators-
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 four speaks the
specific intention for this device.
The intention is to influence
a particular target experiment.
Uh, might be to increase the pH of
purified water by one full pH unit...
or to decrease the pH
by one full pH unit.
We have used these devices
on all of those experiments...
and have been robustly successful.
In the meditative process then, after
one speaks the particular intention...
it's held various ways by the four...
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 devices
with its aluminum foil.
We put it in a soft package.
We put it in a FedEx packet.
We ship it 2,000 miles away to the
laboratory we were using up in Minnesota.
And as soon as it arrives
there, it goes into its own...
electrically-grounded Faraday cage.
The next day, we do the
same with the control.
Experiment is running. And basically...
then one just takes the device out...
sets it beside the experiment
within six inches to a foot...
and turns it on for a period of time.
That's it. Now, we learned
over some period of time...
that there was another factor.
We found that the use of these-
we call them intention
imprinted electrical devices-
The continued use of this...
somehow conditions a 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 unit...
if that was the imprint,
or starts dropping.
If you go one full pH unit
or beyond, you're dead.
I mean, that's what it means to a human.
R.E.G. machines-random event generators-
are electronic tosses of the coin.
One type of random number
generator experiment...
that's been conducted many, many times-
hundreds of times over the past four
decades or so since around the 1960s-
has been a random generator that only
produces sequences of random bits.
Zeros and ones. Like flipping coins.
And you would simply ask
somebody to press a button.
It would produce 200 bits...
and you would ask them to say, "Well, try to
make it produce more one bits than zero bits. "
And when you take the
entire body of literature...
all of the hundreds of
experiments that have been done...
you can ask a single question:
Did it matter that people were
trying to push it towards ones...
or push it towards zeros?
And the overall answer
is yes, it does matter.
That somehow, intention is correlated...
with the operation, with the output
of these random number generators...
such that if you wish for more ones...
somehow, the generators
produce more ones.
So when they talk about-
in quantum physics-
being a completely arbitrary
and random process...
what they're not accounting for
is the extraordinary effect...
of human thought, of human intention.
When the O.J. Simpson
trial was going on...
lots of people are
watching television...
because of the 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, uh, Radin was studying
the behavior of random number generators.
But then, uh, Radin found...
that whenever the intentions
were strong in the courtroom...
that's when the deviation of...
these random number
generators from randomness...
becomes very high.
This leads naturally
to wonder, do people-
Are people affecting the
world of reality that they see?
You betcha they are.
Every single one of us affects
the reality that we see.
Even if we try to hide from that
and play victim, we all are doing it.
Just tell me where you are.
Okay, good. But hurry, will you, please?
Because these models are giving me a headache.
- Ten minutes.
Our subway exhibit comes to us...
from Japan and Mr. Masaru Emoto.
Mr. Emoto became terribly interested...
in the molecular structure
of water and what affects it.
Now, water is the most
receptive of the four elements.
Mr. Emoto thought perhaps it would
respond to nonphysical events.
So he set up a series of
studies, applied mental stimuli...
and photographed it with a microscope.
For one sample of water,
we drop about. 5 c. c. 's...
onto each 50 petri dishes.
Then we take those 50 petri dishes...
and freeze them in a freezer at minus
We take those frozen samples into a refrigerator
that is set at minus five degrees Celsius...
where a microscope
with a camera is set up.
There, we take photographs of 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 same
procedure just described.
We take those before-and-after
photographs and compare the differences.
When we projected the feeling
of love and thanks to water...
it made the most beautiful crystal.
At 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 blessing
from 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 a picture
of the pure, distilled water...
just the essence of itself.
These subsequent photographs, 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
taped that 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 that actually
affects the molecules is unknown...
except to the water
molecules, of course.
And it's really fascinating
when you keep in mind...
that 90% of our bodies are water.
Makes you wonder, doesn't it?
If thoughts can do that to water...
imagine what our thoughts can do to us.
One of the most interesting experiments
with random event generators...
occurred when it was really out of time.
Some of the Princeton investigators
and some of the other ones...
decided that they would
try to see whether or not...
you could affect a random
machine after it had run.
So they converted it
- Instead of having a computer with a visual screen...
they had a computerized situation
that was, um, audio tapes.
And they had it with left-
clicks in the left ear and
clicks in the right ear.
And they already played this
with nobody listening to it...
so that it already ran.
They put that in a vault,
and they then gave the tape...
the already-run tape, to
a participant and said...
"Take it home. I want
you to listen to it...
"and I want you to make more left-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
they were both the same...
and they both had more left
clicks than right clicks.
So what was going on here?
Well, it wasn't as though...
the person who was the participant
had actually affected it...
at the moment 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 affect reality...
in a consistent, substantial way...
because they don't believe they can.
Whatever way we observe
the world around us...
is what comes back to us.
And the reason why my
life, for instance...
is so lacking in joy and
happiness and fulfillment...
is because my focus is lacking
in those same things exactly.
If we're victims, we
should ask ourselves...
"Have I a victim mentality?"
If I'm continually meeting misfortunes
and accidents and tragedies...
maybe it's because my mentality
is basically attuned...
to accepting 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 loses their 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 a flame-
a match flame, in fact-
so that you learn to
bring your attention...
into a very sharp channel...
so that the energy
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 at a very
superficial level of ordinary thought...
we have very limited power.
We can barely move a speck
of dust across a tabletop...
without using our hands.
So weak 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
- to be able to heal with a touch...
and to raise the dead and to
manifest a loaf of bread in our hand.
And we always wonder
why we can't do that.
But we can never ask a question...
that we don't already
know the answer to.
And the answer is...
is because we don't
believe we can do it...
and it interferes with our agenda...
of our own personal
addictions that define us.
We have never had enough time...
to care for anyone else
other than our own...
emotional addictive needs.
Hey, how was the shoot?
It sucked.
Your boss called.
He's worried about you.
Amanda, I want to thank you
for letting me stay here.
I know I'm a bit much sometimes...
and that it's been
tough after Bob and all.
And, um...
you've just been so wonderful.
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?
The day I make someone
sane, they're in trouble.
Anyway, um...
I made you something
as a thank-you gift.
Open it.
I went through your pictures
and picked my favorite ones.
And it took me forever because
there are so many good ones.
This-
That's for all the wonderful
photos you will be taking.
I've had a strange day.
Thank you.
Why are we here?
If thoughts can do that to water...
imagine what our thoughts can do to us.
...thought about what
thoughts are made of
Is there a substance of thought?
This is a dream that I'm dreaming.
Just as in a dream you dream, different
characters can emerge and come out to you...
and talk to you and meet you...
it's possible to go to another level
of dreaming where you can become...
each of the characters that you dream.
We can go backward and forward in time.
Time is relative.
- It goes backwards in time.
And then forward in time.
- Time was not absolute.
Information.
- Time reversal symmetry.
Of course we can go
backward and forward in time.
Are all realities in the quantum
field existing simultaneously?
The actual event of experience-
There literally are different
worlds in which we live.
There's the macroscopic
world that we see.
There's the world of our cells.
There's the world of our atoms.
The world of our nuclei. These
are each totally different worlds.
They have their own language.
They have their own mathematics.
They're notjust smaller. Each is totally
different, but they're complementary.
Because I am my atoms,
but I am also my cells.
I am also my macroscopic
physiology. It's all true.
There are just different
levels of truth.
The deepest level of truth uncovered
by science and by philosophy...
is the fundamental truth of unity.
At that deepest subnuclear
level of our reality...
you and I are
literally one- one- one.
This gradually led into some notions...
that there was an invisible
connection between everything.
Physicists give this a name.
They call it "entanglement. "
As Einstein put it, he didn't believe
quantum mechanics could be true...
because it required that there
be spooky action at a distance.
That was his term.
What he meant is when we have our ordinary
sense of the way that the fabric of reality is...
it seems like these two places
are absolutely in space...
they're separate and
never the twain shall meet.
But in fact, it's not true.
At some deeper level that we can't
see with our eyes very clearly...
two places in space are the same.
They are colocated, 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 world
is actually constructed...
then things like psychic and mystical
experience don't make any sense at all...
because the whole point about psychic and
mystical experience that makes them strange...
is the sense there's some kind of connection
between what's going on inside your head...
and things elsewhere
- elsewhere in space and in time.
So what this view of
quantum mechanics provides...
is a way of framing what these
strange experiences are like.
And it reframes it from somehow 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
- spread out through space and time.
So when I'm able to get a telepathic
impression from somebody at a distance...
it's not because I somehow
jumped out there and got it...
but because at some deep level...
my head and the other
person's head are colocated.
We become entangled all the time
when we 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...
and your brain potentials picks up
the signature of those light flashes...
what is called "evoke potential"...
that can be measured in an E.E.G.
machine connected to your brain.
And I am sitting over
there. No light flashes.
I cannot see you.
And, still, my brain potential,
because I am correlated with you...
in terms of intention...
I intend to be directly
communicated with your experiences.
That intention produces me
- gives me the capability...
of simultaneously having a 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
beginning of great thought.
I wake up in the morning, and
I consciously create my day...
the way I want it to happen.
Now, sometimes, because
my mind is examining...
all the things that
I need to get done...
it takes me a little
bit to settle down...
and get to the point
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
or the result of my creation.
And the more I do that...
the more I build a
neuronet in my brain...
that I accept that that's possible...
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 own
observer of our own reality.
And each of our individual
consciousnesses...
creates our own individual
reality in the most amazing way.
My son, Evan, the physicist,
says it's an additive thing.
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 than
what the Patriots are holding.
And only one of those realities
are gonna be the real reality.
So there's some additive, and
there are interference patterns.
If we keep quantum physics...
and the understanding very
simple for the layperson-
that our observation has a
direct effect on our world.
I think if we keep it very simple, then
people can get about the business...
of beginning to practice
the skill of observation.
See, the subatomic world
responds to our observation...
but the average person
loses their attention span...
every six to 10 seconds per minute.
So, that doesn't leave a lot
of room 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 mastered
the skill of observation...
and maybe it is a skill.
And maybe we're so addicted
to 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...
and given the proper instruction...
we should begin to see
measurable feedback in our life.
If you make the effort...
to sit down and design a new life...
and you make it the
most important thing...
and you spend time
every day feeding it...
like a gardener feeds a
seed, you will produce fruit.
We are running the holodeck.
We are collectively. It's there.
It has such flexibility...
that anything you can
imagine, it will create.
And you learn. I mean, your intention...
causes this thing to materialize
once you're conscious enough.
Yes, so what is consciousness?
- What is consciousness?
Well, consciousness is a very
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, why we even have it.
A simple way of defining it is
it has to do with awareness...
and in particular,
awareness of the self.
That's at least how we, as human
beings, have self-consciousness...
so that when we look in
a mirror, we recognize...
that it's ourselves that we're looking
at and not some other person or animal.
And do you think science
will understand that better...
than having to handle a hot
potato called consciousness...
that has so much...
cultish religion backwater
voodoo attached to it?
Consciousness has been left
out of the equations of physics-
in general, as well as quantum physics-
for a very simple reason:
It's easier to do things that way.
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.
Aw God Amanda. I mean
you live in your past.
Everything with you is about what
happened. You hate churches...
you hate weddings you hate guys.
Consciousness. We have
great trouble defining it.
To me consciousness is
a by-product of spirit...
entering dense matter.
But we have a long long way to grow...
before we get to the stage
where it is meaningful for us...
to ask the question Will we know God?
Most people think of God as
that great figure in the sky...
with the white beard who's
scrutinizing the human race from above.
They see us here on Earth as in some
form of neutral testing ground...
where we're placed
by God for a period...
and God watches from above...
registering the scores on his laptop...
as to whether we perform
according to his designs...
or whether we're
offending 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 limitations
and the insecurities of people...
which is why religion
can play so effectively...
whether deliberately or otherwise...
on those insecurities.
People fall into line very
readily when they're threatened...
by these cosmic sentences
of everlasting punishment.
How in the Ten Commandments
could we have possibly...
created a mind...
that could transcend 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
person may have long ago...
thrown off the trappings of religion...
they still live in the religious mold.
And they don't even know it...
but their whole conception
of how reality works...
is all something that has
been molded by religion.
So until you get that
out of your system...
you can't ever make a go of
an 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 Catholics
are the only people who know the way.
And I think now our current
understanding of quantum physics...
is this understanding of 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 Why am
I feeling separate all the time?
Speaking of God always
conjures up the idea...
of the old guy with the
white beard in the cloud...
judging observing punishing
rewarding or giving commands.
Once you're on that track...
you are totally off the path of
spiritual evolution and development.
The great appeal of all to people...
who don't want to grow up...
but want the great parent in
the skies looking after them...
is to ask Jesus to do it for me.
If only I 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 lunch for me...
and Jesus cannot be born for me.
And neither can Jesus save me.
Because what we're talking about in this
- in real terms...
is not being saved by anyone-
God or otherwise.
We are talking about
a personal evolution.
The only reason that there
is 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 law...
as given to that of
those people on Sirius.
Given to us by the people
in the Rose Universe...
or the "R" Universe.
You know and your Hubble
telescope has finally seen...
galaxies of immeasurable beauty...
that in our heart and in our mind...
we long to engage.
It's exciting to meet
beings of greater mind...
or lesser mind.
And where does it end? It doesn't end.
It doesn't 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 well
we'll all be taken care of.
We lap that up.
So don't 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. and Mrs. Richard Buck Filipowski.
Experiencing something
in the present day...
that is a trigger...
to something that is very
emotionally charged for us.
So now we have become
even more disconnected...
from the reality of what actually is.
The new dream...
like a thunderstorm in our brain...
and its electrical strikes
through our synaptic skies...
to the earth of our being...
creates a chemical
cascade in our body...
that prepares our body...
for conquest achievement...
a relishing experience emotionally.
But we would have no conquest...
indeed we would have no "relishment"...
if we had not first had that hologram...
and those chemicals that made us...
or rather changed us...
from being fearful entities...
into fearless entities after a dream.
The frontal lobe is the crowning
achievement 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 that
it implements quantum effects-
very distinct specific way...
not general not fuzzy not imprecise-
that it absolutely does open the door...
for free will being a possibility...
that does not violate
modern scientific tenets.
And that's consistent
uh to a certain extent...
with people's subjective impression
that we do have free will.
What separates us from
all other 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 regulating
behavior for inspiration.
It is the seat of what causes us...
to take information
from our environment...
and process it...
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 tiny
nerve cells called neurons.
These neurons have tiny
branches that reach out...
and connect to other
neurons to form a neuronet.
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 associative memory.
For example ideas
thoughts and feelings...
are all constructed and
interconnected in this neuronet...
and all have a possible
relationship with one another.
The concept and the feeling
of love for instance...
is stored in this vast neuronet.
But we build the concept of love
from many other different ideas.
Some people have love
connected 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 person...
which then is connected back to love.
Every observation can be looked
upon as a quantum measurement.
This quantum measurement
produces memory.
We always perceive something after...
reflection in the mirror of memory.
It is this reflection in
the mirror of memory...
that gives us that sense
of "I-ness" - who I am.
The brain does not
know the difference...
between what it sees in its
environment and what it remembers...
because the same specific
neuronets are then firing.
We know physiologically
that nerve cells...
that fire together wire together.
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 daily basis...
if you give reasons for the
victimization in your life...
you're rewiring and reintegrating
that neuronet on a daily basis...
and that neuronet now has
a long-term relationship...
with all those other nerve
cells called an identity.
We also know that nerve cells
that don't fire together...
no longer wire together.
They lose their
long-term relationship...
because every time we
interrupt the thought process...
that produces a chemical response in
the body every time we interrupt it...
those nerve cells that are
connected to each other...
start breaking the
long-term relationship.
If we practice...
our mental rehearsal and our
skill in being able to do it...
will show that certain brain circuits...
will grow as a result of our effort.
It'll get easier to do in other words.
If we accept that idea...
then it will allow us to
go back the next day...
and 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
text that doesn't say...
your prayer and your intention
shouldn't be answered by God.
But explaining how that happens...
is what quantum physics and
the 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
its enormous space...
is the altar in which
we place a thought...
and it gives us the permission...
to hold a 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're
stepping into the quantum field.
That's the moment that now we're making
thought more real than anything else.
We are physically chemically
emotional human beings.
That'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 terms of our
change or evolution in our life.
How can we say that we have
lived fully every day...
by simply experiencing
the same emotions...
that we're addicted to every day?
What we're actually saying is
I have to reconfirm who I am...
and my personality is "I have to do this.
I have to go here. I have to be that. "
A master is quite a different cat.
It is one that sees the day...
as an opportunity in time...
to create avenues of reality...
and emotions that are unborn...
of realities that are unborn...
that the day becomes a fertilization...
of infinite tomorrows.
There's a part of the brain
called the hypothalamus...
and the hypothalamus is
like a little mini factory.
And it is a place that
assembles certain chemicals...
that matches certain
emotions that we experience.
Those particular chemicals
are called peptides.
They're small chain
amino acid sequences.
The body's basically a carbon unit...
that makes about 20 different
amino acids all together...
to formulate its physical structure.
In the hypothalamus we take small
chain proteins called peptides...
and we assemble them into certain
neuropeptides or neurohormones...
that match the 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 that matches every
emotional state that we experience.
And the moment that we
experience that emotional state...
in our body or in our brain...
that hypothalamus will
immediately assemble the peptide.
It 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.
Every single cell in the body has
these receptors on the outside.
One cell can have
thousands 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 and...
kind of like a doorbell buzzing
sends a signal into the cell.
It's party time!
What happens in adulthood...
is that most of us who've had
our glitches along the way...
are operating in a
emotionally detached place...
or we're operating as
if today were yesterday.
Mixed.
Change in itself means then...
that we have to abandon our old self.
It means that we have to
leave behind our identity...
for a few moments...
and begin to speculate who we could be.
To change means modifying
our behavior enough...
so that it's permanent.
Our experiences color what we know.
So there is no completely
objective appraisal of anything.
Because our appraisal of everything...
has to do with our
previous experiences...
and our emotions.
Everything has an
emotional weighting to it.
We've gone from emotions
being these spiritual...
immaterial things to things-
they're not even things-
to actual molecules
with molecular weights...
and peptides with
sequences and structures.
Science knows now that the
hypothalamus makes neuropeptides...
and those neuropeptides
are strong chemicals.
Well here's the story of
the peptide and the cell.
The peptides find the receptors...
and dock onto them and stay attached.
Then they come off and then
they 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
nucleus of the cell.
Each cell is definitely alive...
and uh each cell has a consciousness...
particularly if we
define consciousness...
as 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 it's making.
The cell knows whether it's about to divide
or whether it's in a program 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 gonna start sending
impressions to the brain.
- I'm hungry.
- And the brain is gonna start to formulate imagery.
It's gonna sound like
voices in our head.
- I'm hungry!
- to think of a reason why we should be depressed.
- Yes I'm hungry!
- think of a reason why we should be confused.
think of a reason for our own suffering.
And the body's gonna
be telling the brain...
that it's not getting
its chemical need-
chemical needs met.
And so the brain will then activate...
and start going to
our past situations...
- Yeah.
- And flashing pictures to our frontal lobe.
Oh yeah! We've commandeered
an entire serving platter!
Yeah keep it comin'! Keep it comin'!
- Delicious!
- Oh yeah!
Well my definition of an addiction
is something really simple.
Something that you can't stop.
We bring to ourselves
situations that will fulfill...
the biochemical craving
of the cells of our body...
by creating situations that
meet our chemical needs.
It always happens to me!
- Every day!
- why me?
So my definition really means that...
if you can't control your emotional
state you must be addicted to it.
Oh this ruins everything!
The people that we really love...
are people who are willing
our feelings whatever they are.
Whether they're sexual.
- Whether they are victimized
- Poor me. Poor you.
- Whether they are power. You
need somebody to control you.
So you feel like you're in control.
Don't dip your 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!
I want you to get out there and serve. Make
sure everybody has a full plate. Fun fun fun.
If you won't do anything about it-
We show you what women want!
What is reality?
- What is reality?
- What is reality?
- How do we know that it's reality?
- What is real reality?
They have taken laboratory animals...
and they've hooked up electrodes
in certain parts of their brain...
that produce those neuropeptides.
And those neuropeptides
are such strong chemicals...
that given the fact that they
train the laboratory animal...
to press a lever to get
that chemical release-
that neuropeptide release-
it would choose the
neuropeptide release...
more than hunger more than sex...
more than thirst more than sleep.
As a matter of fact it went to
the point of physical exhaustion...
and collapsed 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
even though it doesn't serve us.
We can't leave our relationship
because it doesn't serve us.
We can't make choices because
the stimulus and responses...
produce the chemistry
that clouds our choices.
And we're no different than the dog
who lacks its ability to make choices...
because of its smaller frontal lobe.
So how can anyone really
say they're in love...
with a specific person for example?
They're only in love
with the anticipation...
of the emotions they're addicted to.
Because the same person could fall out
of favor the next week by not complying.
Oh Josh!
- Oh!
- Amanda!
How can you not freakin' see?
No. No no no no. You
got the punch line wrong.
It's a
- It's a photographer's joke.
Go on about your uh
- Uh music.
Are you-Are you okay?
Well I-
I saw that groom humping some girl.
Uh when?
Just now!
I was with the
uh- the groom-
- Hey I can read lips!
- I'm sorry.
Uh I was with the groom just now.
He loves Paulette.
Where?
Polacks-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 of insight...
that moment of insight
carries frequency.
It carries a message.
The cells of the body are
enlivened by possibility.
They're enlivened by unknown potentials.
They're enlivened by a future
history or future opportunity...
that may be down the rabbit
hole a little further.
And if they allow themselves
to experience the quandary...
and the mysticism and the possibility...
that when they emerge from the rabbit
hole they're a different person.
And now they go back into their world.
And because 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 have
lived fully every day...
by simply experiencing the same emotions
that we're addicted to every day?
A master is quite a different cat.
Another drink?
It is one that sees the day
as an opportunity in time...
to create avenues of reality...
and emotions that are unborn...
that the day become infinite tomorrows.
- To the groom!
- To the groom!
Whoo!
- What's up guys?
- 'Sup man?
- Hello.
- What do we need?
- Some foxes.
- Who put out!
Yeah baby!
Yes it's a psychosomatic
network and yes some of us-
you know particularly adolescent boys-
are under the control
of lower... centers.
More drinks. More drinks.
The eye isn't in control
of the molecules of emotion.
It's more um
- I don't want to say at the mercy of it.
But these rapid eye movements that
help us decide where to focus...
are mediated in the midbrain...
and you can map opiate
receptors there...
and receptors for many
of the other peptides.
So once again the relevant
search command that's going on...
is related to finding a
certain emotional state.
Oh. Oh gosh. She
wouldn't fall for me. No.
Oh mama!
Whoo! What the hell are you waitin' for?
Come on you little pussies!
Geez! I can't believe you guys!
What are you
- Ooh come on. Come over here. Just get the hell outta 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 an invention...
to allow us to see into the future.
Think about that for a while.
Whoa! Whoo!
Hello there big boy.
Oh mama!
Is that a rocket in your pocket
or are you just happy to see me?
- I wanna hear Some polka music okay?
- I'm gonna play the polka music.
You can't have a Polish
wedding without polka music!
No! Would you leave it alone!
How can you have a Polish wedding without any
- Polish music?
Keep your
- hands off my equipment!
It ain't a Polish
wedding without a polka!
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
neuronet in our brain...
which are based on the experiences and
information that we've logged in there.
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
to change the neuronet...
which means we'd have
to change our identity...
which means we'd have
to change our attitude...
or change the way in which we
interact with our environment.
And every time we keep
being the same person...
and keep experiencing
the same attitudes...
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 they
have receptors for the heroin...
and that the more
heroin that they take...
their ability to make their
own internal endorphins...
their own internal heroin
basically starts to decline...
and the receptors start
to become sub-sensitive...
or there's actually less of them.
So there's these actual changes.
Then this new information about how
less brain cells are being made...
so that people get kind of-
In all addictions they
get stuck in old patterns.
The person's mental life...
becomes 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 do...
becomes all about their pain.
One of the things about receptors
is they change in their sensitivity.
If a given receptor for a
given drug or internal juice...
is being bombarded...
for a long time at a high intensity...
it will literally shrink up.
There will be less of
them or it will 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.
No! No!
If we're bombarding the cell
with the same attitude...
and the same chemistry...
over and over again on a daily basis...
when that cell finally
decides to divide...
when it produces a sister
cell or a daughter cell...
that next cell will have
more receptor sites...
for those particular
emotional neuropeptides...
and less receptor sites...
for vitamins minerals
nutrients fluid exchange...
or even the release of
waste products or toxins.
Now all aging is the result...
of improper protein production.
What happens when we age?
Our skin gets
- 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 that
become brittle and stiff.
What happens to our
bones? They become thin.
So all aging is the result...
of improper protein production.
So the question arises
- Does it really matter what we eat?
And does nutrition
really have an effect...
if the cell doesn't even
have the receptor sites...
after 20 years of emotional abuse...
to even receive or to
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 hours...
in a continuum...
of what emotions they
display in their body...
we shall know their thoughts.
I hate you.
We never ever...
reincarnate to the "I
love you so much" people.
We always reincarnate...
to the situations of
why we hate ourself.
I hate you!
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 our thoughts can do...
to us.
No one has ever came along...
and ever given you sufficient
intelligent knowledge...
about your beautiful self-
how you work from the inside out.
Why do you have addictions?
Because you have nothing better.
You have dreamt of nothing better...
because no one has ever
taught you how to dream better.
There is data now that when
people are addicted to...
whether it's cocaine heroin...
nicotine alcohol um...
all of them seem to share a property 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 your only teaching machine.
It's your only way for you to
come to understand something new.
So...
the universe brings these
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 mind-set.
Can I-
Wow.
Uh 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
out of the area of the brain...
that has to do with our personality...
that has to do with our association
to people our association of places...
our association 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 back
up what our thoughts do...
and how they make our bodies weak.
A lot of the scientists who
are actually studying this...
with behavioral kinesiology
and other ways...
showing that thoughts
make your body weak.
And thoughts pretty
much create your reality.
They create what you're
going to think about yourself.
If you're fat but you think you're
wonderful you'll be wonderful.
But most women are-We're compared
all the time with impossible images...
from Barbie to models...
and so we think that our whole
currency is how we look...
and how other people
are gonna perceive us.
We're always up against
impossible standards.
What is relative to their
own emotional addiction...
are movies and dramas and
news and all the media...
that is so beautiful today...
in providing people with experiences
without having to be there.
And yet-
And yet...
that does not define human greatness.
They're so hypnotized
by their environment...
through the media...
through television...
through people living
and creating ideals...
that everybody struggles to become...
that no one can actually become...
in terms of physical appearance...
and definitions of beauty and valor...
that are all illusions...
that most people surrender and
live their life in "mediocracy. "
And they may live that life
and the soul may never really-
Their desire may never
really rise to the surface.
So they may want to be something else.
But if it does rise to the surface...
and they ask themselves if
there is something more...
or why am I here what
is the purpose of life...
where am I going what
happens when I die...
and they start to ask those questions...
they start to flirt and interact...
with the perception that they
may be having a nervous breakdown.
In reality what they're doing is...
their old concepts of how they
viewed their life and the world...
start to fall apart.
That's why very few
people make this journey-
because it's deeply unsettling.
All of the molds that we have
lived 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 to the old false securities.
They get to live a reasonable life...
and they get to die in
some sort of peace...
but they haven't advanced
spiritually at all...
in that experiment
that we call the life.
We're in completely new
territory in our brain...
and because we're in
completely new territory...
we're rewiring the brain...
literally reconnecting to a new concept.
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'm
chemically attached to?
And what person place thing time or
event that I'm chemically attached to...
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 an enormous book...
in which we will always be who we are.
But always...
with the inherent...
needling...
of ambitious pursuit...
a pursuit that takes us...
from the boring tedium of
self-reflection of self-hate...
and to self-creation...
of new dreams.
And we are ambitious gods.
It's the only planet in the Milky Way...
that has habitation that is steeped...
in enormous subjugation of religion.
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.
The problem that I have with right
and wrong and those categories...
is not that I want
a free-for-all...
but that right and wrong
doesn't go nearly far enough.
They have never sinned.
They have never wrong
- Wronged yes.
Immoral confrontations with society.
But that's their adversity.
That's why they're here.
To wrong to learn to search.
And use the wisdom of that
to create yet greater dreams.
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 out
on the path of enlightenment...
will be absolutely impeccable
in everything that they do.
Is it because of fear of damnation? No.
Or of the punishment of God? Or because
I have sinned and haven't got forgiveness?
No no no. I mean these are all excuses
that keeps us away from the real problem.
The really enlightened person...
will see every action has a
reaction with which I must deal.
And if I'm wise I'm
not going to do stuff...
that will cause me to have
to face it and resolve it...
and balance it in my soul later.
That's the real criterion.
That God or the fundamental level of
reality depending on what people describe...
really
- I mean theoretically should be everywhere.
Uh it's something
- Exactly how it would manifest...
or how God would
manifest in the world...
uh is a more complicated issue but uh...
I think that certainly from a more
traditional religious perspective...
people have kind of gotten
away from God the person.
There's been a great shift from 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- that-
that God can be within
and still 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's not within in
that uh stupid sense.
What it means is uh that in God
we live move and have our being-
that we ourselves in fact are divine.
What's the relationship between
my god self and your god self?
There is no relationship
because it'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 the devil?
Or that this is heresy?
If this is heresy...
then what is promised to everyone...
is an "imbuedment" with
God that is inseparable.
Knowledge allows the brain
to begin to become wired.
And we will begin to see
what has always existed.
But because we live in those
routine automatic programs...
we're 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...
and creating the circuitry now to
begin to develop the sensitivity...
to begin to see things
for the first time.
There's enormous potential to
change the kind of behaviors...
and characteristic patterns
that we've fallen into.
In fact if you've listened...
and have remembered
anything that I've said...
your physiology is different
than it was before that.
That is something that Eric Kandel...
the recent winner of the Nobel
Prize in medicine and science...
said very eloquently at a talk...
that basically memory
has been encoded...
your genetic structure has changed.
And while we previously would
talk 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 basically means ability to
change within the nervous system.
And if you look at the structure
of the human brain in detail...
you see that it's actually specifically
designed it's carefully engineered...
to experience the unified field
to experience the unity of life.
We are all connected.
I mean I think the most
fundamental 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-
you get away from the
whole idea of separateness.
Because separateness is the
biggest problem of the world now.
You take this notion of
an entangled universe...
and you apply it to human experience...
because human experience is
part of the universe as well.
And then you say Well let's assume
that experience is entangled.
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 some other object
somewhere else we'd call it clairvoyance.
If there's a connection that happens to
transcend time we'd call it precognition.
If there's a connection in which my intention
is expressed out in the world some way...
we might call it psychokinesis or
distant healing or something of that sort.
So you can go through a list of perhaps
that have gotten labels over
the years like telepathy.
But this is really just
the tip of the iceberg.
People ask Why are you so
interested in the Planck scale-
Because obviously spirituality
is out there. It's everywhere. "
And the answer is that yes the Planck
scale is the ultimately small...
but it's also everywhere.
Wherever you go there it is.
And because it's holographic it
repeats at different scales...
like fractals throughout the universe.
I would say that what quantum
physics is to the 20th century...
whatever is going to be the 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-creators
somehow or other.
And we have to do the right things...
to try to get the future
that is best for all of us.
We have talked so far about...
the freedom of our own personal
life and quantum physics-
that we are freeing and freeing and
freeing our reality to ultimate realities.
Yes of course they exist.
But after we have accomplished
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
of the one transpersonal self
When you start to realize
what your true nature is...
there is no question and
there is no answer anymore.
And there's just sudden realization.
Now you come back
from the rabbit hole...
and you start to perform...
in this world of illusion
and wonder and magic...
with that understanding that you're
never gonna die 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
mathematical description of the subject...
only objects can be
described mathematically...
and only to the extent
that they are possibilities.
The question still remains
paramount Who is the chooser?
Are all realities
existing simultaneously?
Is there a possibility that all
potentials exist side by side?
Welcome to Flatland...
a world of only two dimensions.
Only forwards and
backwards left and right.
In this world there
is no up and no down.
And I said to Ray "Where's Dotty?"
He said "Well she's out in
Line. " And I said "Well"-
Where's that from? What
the bleep is that thing?
In this world the two-dimensional
beings that live here...
have no concept of
three-dimensional objects.
These two-dimensional Flatlanders...
have no understanding of cubes...
spheres tetrahedrons...
or yours truly.
From their 2-D perspective...
my 3-D finger looks
something like this.
Oh my gosh.
- What in the flat earth is that?
- Did you see that?
Run!
Hello little circle.
Fear of the unknown...
or should I say not yet known?
It's a puzzle.
If we see only what we know...
how does anyone ever see
anything new the unknown?
How do we ever get out of our box?
Hello little circle.
Don't be afraid.
Who said that? Where are you?
This is always the
tricky part to explain.
I'm in another dimension another space.
I am above you.
No never never use that word.
- What word?
- The "A" word.
Above?
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 punished
if 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 okay.
You have a safe hidden in your pantry.
And inside it...
you have 12 coins 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...
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 touch the
inside of your stomach...
how would I do that?
Well you'd have to cut through my skin.
Otherwise it's impossible.
Stop stop.
Ready for more?
- More what?
- Dimensions.
- Oh.
- Directions.
Uh 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.
- Okay.
- Excellent.
I never knew.
Isn't it funny?
That which we are most afraid of...
is what thrills us the most.
That has the effect of
randomizing their x-spins...
and nothing else interesting
happened to them after that.
Okay.
Um good.
It's an easy way to get a laugh here.
So you can't ask them their opinion 'cause
you know what they're gonna tell you.
"You're starting to act different.
I liked you better the other way. "
And that's a great sign
that you're making a change.
You can edit that though if
you had to though couldn't you?
- Ah-
- Ah-
Not prettily.
Where-Who can do the Heimlich?
Okay. Are we rolling?
I study quantum physics.
I sometimes teach it.
I have written a book on
quantum physics and many books...
explicating the meaning
of quantum physics.
After my Ph. D. from
Harvard I went to CERN...
a European laboratory
for particle research...
but perhaps I'm best
known for the discovery...
of the now famous N=1 locally supersymmetric
flipped SU5 grand unified field theory.
Don't make the mistake...
of thinking that the scientific
community is scientific.
Uh-
Two points. First of all I
want to thank David for uh-
Healthy skepticism is important...
and extraordinary claims
require extraordinary proof.
Um now the problem is...
that people defending the
conventional approach to consciousness-
brain equals mind equals computer-
uh behave as if they've
got proof and we don't.
And they got-
Okay? Pardon my-
Which form the neuronets
in the first place.
Which is what? The mind.
What's the mind?
The mind-Thank you.
This is called divine intervention.
From above.
But he has feet of clay.
I got involved with this because my evidence
- No. Start over.
Go back in time.
- I can go back And fix that. Okay.
- That's right. You can.
Okay. Um my name is Lynne McTaggart.
I'm author of a book called The Field.
I'm Dr. Daniel Monti. I'm a physician...
with specialty training in
psychiatry and human behavior.
I'm on the full-time faculty at
the Jefferson Medical College.
I've heard some people
say that consciousness...
is this wonderful
property 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.
- ... tell you a little about myself.
Um
- Oh. The light is blinking already.
- See? This is What happens whenever I speak. Weir
-
Weird things happen.
Okay.
All right. Well-
Look. When I hold it it
stays on. What does that mean?
All right.
- Oh. It's okay. Maybe God wants me to meet you.
- Hi.
Actually we did this at a conference...
when we asked people uh how many
people have had a gut feeling and so on.
And 80% of the people say
- And then we say...
Among those of you who are audience who
doesn't believe in any of this stuff-
How many of you guys
have had interesting
Eighty percent.
So when people are skeptical
about unusual things...
it's completely understandable because
there's all kinds of nonsense out there.
But when you bring those
phenomena into the lab...
and you exclude all of the ordinary
ways of understanding them...
it turns out that they do
have a psychic component.
Here we are actually
filming great thinkers.
Everyone in this room
is a great thinker...
now that we got 'em thinking.
That's always a trick isn't it?
You probably have
more to say about this.
No.
- Sorry about that.
- That's okay.
...multiple personality disorder have
to say about the seat of consciousness?
And the second one is...
what made you want to become
a physicist at the age of 50?
Okay. Well I guess multiple
personality disorder.
I actually wanted to become a physicist as
young as the age of four believe it or not.
As we become more and more
inner-self-managed okay...
we will manifest...
the qualities of these deeper
levels down the rabbit hole.
And so we become a qigong master...
where 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
out that I can understand...
is there is an intelligent presence.
There is kind of a
"one-mindedness" that I call it -
or God if you want to call it that.
Ponder that for a while.
- Perfect. -
Thank you. Um-
What did I say? What are
you gonna do with that?
A bite! You took a bite out of nowhere!
Okay. That's good.