1 00:00:43,177 --> 00:00:46,78 What's going on, and why am I here? 2 00:00:51,886 --> 00:00:54,582 - Where do we come from? - What do quantum physics... 3 00:00:54,688 --> 00:00:57,714 - Immense quantum mechanical isotopes. - Physics of possibility. 4 00:00:57,825 --> 00:01:00,589 Quantum mechanics allows... 5 00:01:04,365 --> 00:01:06,424 Supreme mind. 6 00:01:06,534 --> 00:01:08,934 - Brain is capable of millions... - A neural net. 7 00:01:09,36 --> 00:01:11,527 - Cascade of biochemical... - An emotional response... 8 00:01:11,639 --> 00:01:13,539 Molecules... 9 00:01:13,641 --> 00:01:16,75 The brain does not know the difference between... 10 00:01:16,177 --> 00:01:18,907 what it sees in its environment and what it remembers. 11 00:01:19,13 --> 00:01:21,140 We are running the holodeck. 12 00:01:22,783 --> 00:01:26,82 Whatever way we observe the world around us... 13 00:01:26,187 --> 00:01:30,954 So how can you continue to see the world as real... 14 00:01:31,58 --> 00:01:35,927 if the self that is determining it to be real is intangible? 15 00:02:34,655 --> 00:02:39,149 Are all realities existing simultaneously? 16 00:02:44,31 --> 00:02:46,397 Is there a possibility... 17 00:02:46,500 --> 00:02:50,163 that all potentials exist side by side? 18 00:02:56,510 --> 00:03:01,379 Have you ever seen yourself through the eyes of someone else that you have become... 19 00:03:13,494 --> 00:03:18,227 and looked at yourself through the eyes of the ultimate observer? 20 00:03:22,636 --> 00:03:24,968 Who are we? 21 00:03:25,72 --> 00:03:28,564 Where do we come from, what should we do... 22 00:03:28,676 --> 00:03:31,702 and where are we going? 23 00:03:31,812 --> 00:03:36,613 Why are we here? Well, that is the ultimate question, isn't it? 24 00:03:36,717 --> 00:03:39,83 What is reality? 25 00:03:39,186 --> 00:03:42,644 What I thought was unreal, now for me... 26 00:03:42,756 --> 00:03:46,920 seems in some ways to be more real than what I think to be real... 27 00:03:47,27 --> 00:03:50,326 which seems now more to be unreal. 28 00:03:50,431 --> 00:03:52,331 You can't explain it, um... 29 00:03:52,433 --> 00:03:54,958 and anybody who gets too lost in try... 30 00:03:55,69 --> 00:03:56,969 anybody who spends too much time trying to explain it... 31 00:03:57,71 --> 00:04:01,167 is likely to get lost forever down the rabbit hole of mysteriousness. 32 00:04:02,743 --> 00:04:04,938 I think the more you look at quantum physics... 33 00:04:05,45 --> 00:04:08,378 the more mysterious and wondrous it becomes. 34 00:04:08,482 --> 00:04:11,280 Quantum physics... 35 00:04:11,385 --> 00:04:15,549 very succinctly speaking... 36 00:04:15,656 --> 00:04:18,716 is a physics of possibilities. 37 00:04:19,760 --> 00:04:21,660 These are questions... 38 00:04:21,762 --> 00:04:26,426 These are addressing questions, um, of how the world feels to us... 39 00:04:26,533 --> 00:04:29,798 of-of whether there's a difference between the way the world feels to us... 40 00:04:29,903 --> 00:04:32,167 and the way it really is. 41 00:04:32,273 --> 00:04:35,640 Have you ever thought about what thoughts are made of? 42 00:04:35,743 --> 00:04:38,940 I think some of the things we're seeing with the children today... 43 00:04:39,46 --> 00:04:42,140 is a sign that the culture is in the wrong paradigm... 44 00:04:42,249 --> 00:04:45,980 and not appreciating the power of thought. 45 00:04:46,86 --> 00:04:48,850 Every age, every generation has its built-in assumptions... 46 00:04:48,956 --> 00:04:52,153 That the world is flat, or that the world is round, et cetera. 47 00:04:52,259 --> 00:04:54,159 There are hundreds of hidden assumptions... 48 00:04:54,261 --> 00:04:57,890 things we take for granted, that may or may not be true. 49 00:04:57,998 --> 00:05:01,832 Of course, in the vast majority of cases, historically, these things aren't true. 50 00:05:01,935 --> 00:05:04,495 So presumably, if history is any guide... 51 00:05:04,605 --> 00:05:09,599 much about what we take for granted about the world simply isn't true. 52 00:05:09,710 --> 00:05:13,874 But we're locked into these precepts without even knowing it oftentimes. 53 00:05:13,981 --> 00:05:15,949 That's a paradigm. 54 00:05:16,50 --> 00:05:18,814 Modern materialism... 55 00:05:18,919 --> 00:05:22,787 strips people of the need to feel responsible... 56 00:05:22,890 --> 00:05:25,950 and often enough, so does religion. 57 00:05:26,60 --> 00:05:29,587 But I think if you take quantum mechanics seriously enough... 58 00:05:29,697 --> 00:05:32,860 it puts the responsibility squarely in your lap. 59 00:05:32,966 --> 00:05:38,336 And it doesn't give answers that are clear-cut... 60 00:05:38,439 --> 00:05:40,873 and comforting. 61 00:05:40,974 --> 00:05:45,707 It says, yes, the world is a very big place. It's very mysterious. 62 00:05:45,813 --> 00:05:51,752 Mechanism is not the answer, but I'm not gonna tell you what the answer is... 63 00:05:51,852 --> 00:05:55,788 because you're old enough to decide for yourself. 64 00:05:57,491 --> 00:06:00,255 Is everyone a mystery? 65 00:06:00,361 --> 00:06:03,228 Is everyone an enigma? 66 00:06:03,330 --> 00:06:06,60 They most certainly are. 67 00:06:06,166 --> 00:06:11,729 Asking yourself these deeper questions opens up new ways of being in the world. 68 00:06:11,839 --> 00:06:14,273 It brings in a breath of fresh air. 69 00:06:14,375 --> 00:06:17,708 It makes life more joyful. 70 00:06:17,811 --> 00:06:22,145 The real trick to life is not to be in the know... 71 00:06:22,249 --> 00:06:24,274 but be in the mystery. 72 00:06:41,602 --> 00:06:45,231 Why do we keep re-creating the same reality? 73 00:06:45,339 --> 00:06:47,773 Why do we keep having the same relationships? 74 00:06:49,109 --> 00:06:51,09 Why do we keep getting the same jobs... 75 00:06:51,111 --> 00:06:54,512 over and over again? 76 00:06:54,615 --> 00:06:58,847 In this infinite sea of potentials that exist around us... 77 00:06:58,952 --> 00:07:03,321 how come we keep re-creating the same realities? 78 00:07:03,424 --> 00:07:07,485 Isn't it amazing that we have options and potentials that exist... 79 00:07:07,594 --> 00:07:10,654 but we're unaware of them? 80 00:07:10,764 --> 00:07:15,258 Is it possible that we're so conditioned to our daily lives... 81 00:07:15,369 --> 00:07:18,361 so conditioned to the way we create our lives... 82 00:07:18,472 --> 00:07:22,738 that we buy the idea that we have no control at all? 83 00:07:24,144 --> 00:07:26,78 We've been conditioned to believe... 84 00:07:26,180 --> 00:07:29,479 that the external world is more real than the internal world. 85 00:07:29,583 --> 00:07:32,518 This new model of science says just the opposite... 86 00:07:32,619 --> 00:07:37,488 It says what's happening within us will create what's happening outside of us. 87 00:07:37,591 --> 00:07:40,822 There's a physical reality that is absolutely rock-solid... 88 00:07:40,928 --> 00:07:44,227 and yet... it only... 89 00:07:44,331 --> 00:07:47,129 If you wanna put it this way, it only comes into existence... 90 00:07:47,234 --> 00:07:52,399 when it bumps up against some other piece of physical reality. 91 00:07:52,506 --> 00:07:56,237 That other piece may be us, and of course, we're partial to those moments... 92 00:07:56,343 --> 00:07:58,470 but it doesn't have to be either. 93 00:07:58,579 --> 00:08:03,448 You know, it could be just some incidental rock comes flying along... 94 00:08:03,550 --> 00:08:06,883 and interacts with this fuzzy mass of stuff... 95 00:08:06,987 --> 00:08:12,926 and sure enough, it provokes it into a particular state of existence. 96 00:08:13,26 --> 00:08:16,18 There were philosophers in the past that said, ''Look, if I kick a rock... 97 00:08:16,129 --> 00:08:18,29 ''and I hurt my toe, that's real. 98 00:08:18,131 --> 00:08:20,759 ''I feel that. It feels real. It's vivid. 99 00:08:20,868 --> 00:08:23,496 And that means that it's reality.'' 100 00:08:23,604 --> 00:08:28,541 But it's still an experience, and it's still this person's perception of it being real. 101 00:08:28,642 --> 00:08:33,636 Scientific experiments have shown that if we take a person and, uh... 102 00:08:33,747 --> 00:08:37,376 hook their brains up to certain PET scans or computer technology... 103 00:08:37,484 --> 00:08:41,420 and ask them to look at a certain object... 104 00:08:41,522 --> 00:08:44,980 and they watch, certain areas of the brain light up. 105 00:08:45,92 --> 00:08:47,686 And then they've asked them to close their eyes... 106 00:08:47,794 --> 00:08:50,456 and now imagine that same object. 107 00:08:50,564 --> 00:08:53,192 And when they imagine that same object... 108 00:08:53,300 --> 00:08:56,997 it produced the same areas of the brain to light up... 109 00:08:57,104 --> 00:08:59,163 as if they were actually visually looking at it. 110 00:08:59,273 --> 00:09:02,731 So it caused scientists to back up and ask this question. 111 00:09:02,843 --> 00:09:07,837 So who sees then? Does the brain see? Or do the eyes see? 112 00:09:07,948 --> 00:09:12,715 And what is reality? Is reality what we're seeing with our brain... 113 00:09:12,819 --> 00:09:15,515 or is reality what we're seeing with our eyes? 114 00:09:15,622 --> 00:09:18,989 And the truth is that the brain does not know the difference... 115 00:09:19,92 --> 00:09:22,493 between what it sees in its environment and what it remembers... 116 00:09:22,596 --> 00:09:26,760 because the same specific neural nets are then firing. 117 00:09:26,867 --> 00:09:30,963 So then it asks the question: What is reality? 118 00:09:36,777 --> 00:09:41,09 We're bombarded by huge amounts of information... 119 00:09:41,114 --> 00:09:43,742 and it's coming into our body, and we're processing it... 120 00:09:43,850 --> 00:09:46,785 coming in through our sense organs, and it's percolating up and up... 121 00:09:46,887 --> 00:09:50,186 and at each step we're eliminating information. 122 00:09:50,290 --> 00:09:53,259 And finally, what is bubbling up to consciousness is... 123 00:09:53,360 --> 00:09:56,761 the one that's the most self-serving. 124 00:09:56,863 --> 00:10:00,731 The brain processes 400 billion bits of information a second... 125 00:10:00,834 --> 00:10:03,29 but we're only aware of 2,000 of those. 126 00:10:03,136 --> 00:10:07,334 But our awareness of those 2,000 bits of information... 127 00:10:07,441 --> 00:10:11,673 are just about the environment, our body and about time. 128 00:10:26,893 --> 00:10:30,693 We're living in a world where all we see is the tip of the iceberg... 129 00:10:30,797 --> 00:10:35,359 the classical tip of an immense quantum mechanical iceberg. 130 00:10:36,970 --> 00:10:41,31 - Hey, wow! You got a lot of shots to develop? - No. 131 00:10:41,141 --> 00:10:45,475 Oh, bummer. Well, I'll catch you later. 132 00:11:03,96 --> 00:11:07,32 If the brain is processing 400 billion bits of information... 133 00:11:07,134 --> 00:11:09,762 and our awareness is only on 2,000... 134 00:11:09,870 --> 00:11:13,135 that means reality's happening in the brain all the time. 135 00:11:13,240 --> 00:11:18,143 It's receiving that information, and yet we haven't integrated it. 136 00:11:22,215 --> 00:11:24,410 The eyes are like the lens. 137 00:11:24,518 --> 00:11:28,10 But the tape that's really seeing is the back of the brain. 138 00:11:28,121 --> 00:11:30,112 It's called the visual cortex. It's right back here. 139 00:11:30,223 --> 00:11:33,488 It's like this camera and its tape. 140 00:11:33,593 --> 00:11:39,532 Did you know that the brain imprints what it has the ability to see? 141 00:11:39,633 --> 00:11:41,533 This is important. 142 00:11:41,635 --> 00:11:44,468 For example: 143 00:11:44,571 --> 00:11:48,871 This camera is seeing a lot more around me... 144 00:11:48,975 --> 00:11:51,842 than what is here... 145 00:11:51,945 --> 00:11:55,972 because it is... has no objection and no judgment. 146 00:12:01,488 --> 00:12:05,822 The only movie that's playing in the brain... 147 00:12:05,926 --> 00:12:09,987 is what we have the ability to see. 148 00:12:10,97 --> 00:12:12,861 So is it possible our eyes, our cameras... 149 00:12:12,966 --> 00:12:15,526 see more than what our brain... 150 00:12:15,635 --> 00:12:19,332 has the ability to consciously project? 151 00:12:21,808 --> 00:12:24,174 Well, the way our brain is wired up... 152 00:12:24,277 --> 00:12:27,576 we only see what we believe is possible. 153 00:12:27,681 --> 00:12:30,946 Um, we match patterns that already... 154 00:12:31,51 --> 00:12:34,646 uh, exist within ourselves through conditioning. 155 00:12:34,755 --> 00:12:38,384 So, a wonderful story that I believe is true... 156 00:12:38,492 --> 00:12:42,428 is that when the Indians... the Native American Indians... 157 00:12:42,529 --> 00:12:47,466 on the Caribbean Islands saw Columbus's ships approaching... 158 00:12:47,567 --> 00:12:49,558 they couldn't see them at all. 159 00:12:49,669 --> 00:12:51,830 Because it was so... 160 00:12:51,938 --> 00:12:55,135 unlike anything they had ever seen before, they couldn't see it. 161 00:12:55,242 --> 00:12:57,802 When Columbus's armada landed in the Caribbean... 162 00:12:57,911 --> 00:13:00,379 none of the natives were able to see the ships... 163 00:13:00,480 --> 00:13:02,846 even though they existed on the horizon. 164 00:13:02,949 --> 00:13:05,645 The reason that they never saw the ships was because... 165 00:13:05,752 --> 00:13:11,691 they had no knowledge in their brains, or no experience, that clipper ships existed. 166 00:13:11,792 --> 00:13:17,697 So the shaman starts to notice that there's ripples out in the ocean, 167 00:13:17,798 --> 00:13:20,596 but he sees no ship... but he starts to wonder what's causing the effect. 168 00:13:20,700 --> 00:13:24,33 So every day he goes out and looks and looks and looks. 169 00:13:24,137 --> 00:13:27,197 And after a period of time, he's able to see the ships. 170 00:13:27,307 --> 00:13:32,244 And once he sees the ships, he tells everybody else that ships exist out there. 171 00:13:32,345 --> 00:13:37,339 Because everybody trusted and believed in him, they saw them also. 172 00:14:05,478 --> 00:14:10,40 We create reality. We're reality-producing machines. 173 00:14:10,150 --> 00:14:13,586 We create the effects of reality all the time. 174 00:14:16,22 --> 00:14:21,585 We always perceive something after reflection in the mirror of memory. 175 00:14:26,466 --> 00:14:29,367 As far as whether or not we're just living in a big holodeck or not... 176 00:14:29,469 --> 00:14:31,801 it's a question we don't necessarily have a good answer to. 177 00:14:31,905 --> 00:14:35,136 I think this is a big philosophical problem we have to deal with... 178 00:14:35,242 --> 00:14:37,938 in terms of what science can say about our world... 179 00:14:38,44 --> 00:14:40,774 because we are always the observer in science. 180 00:14:40,881 --> 00:14:42,781 So we are still always constrained... 181 00:14:42,883 --> 00:14:46,114 by what is ultimately coming into the human brain... 182 00:14:46,219 --> 00:14:48,983 that allows us to see and perceive the things we do. 183 00:14:49,89 --> 00:14:52,957 So it is conceivable that all of this really is just a great illusion... 184 00:14:53,59 --> 00:14:58,156 that we have no way of really getting outside of to see what is really out there. 185 00:14:58,265 --> 00:15:01,428 Your brain doesn't know the difference between what's taking place out there... 186 00:15:01,534 --> 00:15:03,434 and what's taking place in here. 187 00:15:03,536 --> 00:15:08,235 There is no ''out there'' out there independent of what's going on in here. 188 00:15:15,682 --> 00:15:20,244 You okay? I heard you scream earlier. Was it another dream? 189 00:15:22,756 --> 00:15:25,657 You were an Indian... 190 00:15:25,759 --> 00:15:30,423 watching Columbus's ship materialize out of thin air. 191 00:15:30,530 --> 00:15:32,828 Wow. 192 00:15:32,933 --> 00:15:35,766 And this medicine man kept hitting you. 193 00:15:35,869 --> 00:15:39,202 Cool. That's... 194 00:15:39,306 --> 00:15:43,766 Hey, maybe it was a past life or a parallel reality... 195 00:15:43,877 --> 00:15:45,777 or a future life. 196 00:15:45,879 --> 00:15:47,813 Get real. 197 00:15:51,785 --> 00:15:54,720 Or maybe that dream was trying to tell you the truth. 198 00:15:54,821 --> 00:15:58,552 I guess it just depends on what you think is real. 199 00:15:58,658 --> 00:16:00,683 Maybe you should try different anxiety pills. 200 00:16:00,794 --> 00:16:03,661 My pills are fine, okay? Thank you. 201 00:16:05,65 --> 00:16:08,466 Well, I have to go get dressed. 202 00:16:10,503 --> 00:16:14,496 Mmm. I hope you feel better, Amanda. 203 00:16:22,549 --> 00:16:27,111 God, Amanda. You can be such an asshole. 204 00:16:38,598 --> 00:16:43,729 There actually are choices in the direction of how a life can go... 205 00:16:43,837 --> 00:16:49,366 that are contingent upon small-level quantum effects... 206 00:16:49,476 --> 00:16:52,240 not being washed out. 207 00:16:52,345 --> 00:16:55,542 First of all, let's talk about the subatomic world... 208 00:16:55,648 --> 00:16:58,82 and then we'll talk about what it's telling us about reality. 209 00:16:58,184 --> 00:17:00,243 The first thing I wanna tell you about the subatomic world... 210 00:17:00,353 --> 00:17:05,620 is it's totally a fantasy created by mad physicists trying to figure out... 211 00:17:05,725 --> 00:17:09,161 what the heck is goin' on when they do these little experiments. 212 00:17:09,262 --> 00:17:13,961 By little experiments, I mean big energy in little spaces in little pieces of time. 213 00:17:14,67 --> 00:17:16,695 It gets pretty nutty at that realm of things... 214 00:17:16,803 --> 00:17:20,933 and so subatomic physics was invented to try to figure that all out. 215 00:17:21,41 --> 00:17:24,533 We need a new science down there, and it's called quantum physics... 216 00:17:24,644 --> 00:17:30,48 and it is subject to a whole range of debatable hypotheses... 217 00:17:30,150 --> 00:17:35,486 thoughts, feelings, intuitions as to what the heck is really going on. 218 00:17:35,588 --> 00:17:38,751 Matter is not what we have long thought it to be. 219 00:17:38,858 --> 00:17:44,558 Uh... To the scientists, matter has always been thought of as sort of the ultimate... 220 00:17:44,664 --> 00:17:48,65 in that which is static and predictable. 221 00:17:48,168 --> 00:17:52,969 Within all the atoms and molecules, all the space within them... 222 00:17:53,73 --> 00:17:57,601 the particles take up an insignificant amount of the... 223 00:17:57,710 --> 00:18:00,941 of the volume of an atom or molecule, the fundamental particles. 224 00:18:01,47 --> 00:18:02,947 The rest of it is vacuum. 225 00:18:03,49 --> 00:18:06,644 What seems to happen is that particles appear and disappear all the time. 226 00:18:06,753 --> 00:18:09,779 So where do they go when they're not here? 227 00:18:09,889 --> 00:18:12,858 Now, that question is tricky. 228 00:18:12,959 --> 00:18:16,326 I'm gonna give you two answers... Answer number one: 229 00:18:16,429 --> 00:18:19,557 They go into an alternative universe... 230 00:18:19,666 --> 00:18:22,863 where the people in that universe are asking the same question... 231 00:18:22,969 --> 00:18:25,836 about those particles when they come into our universe. 232 00:18:25,939 --> 00:18:28,373 They say, ''Where do they go?'' 233 00:18:30,276 --> 00:18:34,975 There's a great mystery called the mystery of the direction of time. 234 00:18:35,81 --> 00:18:38,573 There's a certain sense in which the fundamental laws of physics that we have... 235 00:18:38,685 --> 00:18:42,746 don't make any interesting distinctions, say, between past and future. 236 00:18:42,856 --> 00:18:48,556 Um, for example, it's a puzzle from the standpoint of the fundamental laws of physics... 237 00:18:48,661 --> 00:18:51,391 why we should be able to... 238 00:18:51,498 --> 00:18:54,695 um, remember the past, um... 239 00:18:54,801 --> 00:18:58,862 and not have the same kind of epistemic access to the future. 240 00:18:58,972 --> 00:19:01,941 It's a puzzle from the standpoint of these laws... 241 00:19:02,41 --> 00:19:05,272 why we should think something like by acting now... 242 00:19:05,378 --> 00:19:08,541 we can affect the future but not the past. 243 00:19:08,648 --> 00:19:13,517 These things that we have a different kind of epistemic access to the past and future, 244 00:19:13,620 --> 00:19:16,555 that we have a different kind of control by acting now... 245 00:19:16,656 --> 00:19:18,920 over the future than we do over the past... 246 00:19:19,25 --> 00:19:23,985 these things are so fundamental to the way we experience the world... 247 00:19:24,97 --> 00:19:26,930 that, um... um... 248 00:19:27,33 --> 00:19:30,02 that it seems to me, not to be curious about them is to be... 249 00:19:30,103 --> 00:19:32,162 you know, three-quarters of the way to being dead. 250 00:19:42,182 --> 00:19:45,345 Wanna shoot some hoops? 251 00:19:49,389 --> 00:19:51,721 Now, you don't have to be like that. 252 00:19:51,824 --> 00:19:53,849 Come on and play. 253 00:19:53,960 --> 00:19:56,758 Look. He likes you. 254 00:19:56,863 --> 00:19:59,58 Don't you have time for a little one-on-one? 255 00:20:02,735 --> 00:20:04,862 How long has it been since you played? 256 00:20:06,406 --> 00:20:09,534 Come on. You got the ball. Take a shot. 257 00:20:11,77 --> 00:20:14,46 No, no, no, milady. Not from there. It's out-of-bounds. 258 00:20:14,147 --> 00:20:18,49 You gotta be on the court to be in play. 259 00:20:29,495 --> 00:20:34,228 Welcome to Duke Reginald's Court of Unending Possibilities. 260 00:21:02,795 --> 00:21:05,457 Court rules... Gotta sink the last one. 261 00:21:05,565 --> 00:21:08,329 - That hurt. - It never touched you. 262 00:21:08,434 --> 00:21:12,200 - Right. - And it's not solid. 263 00:21:12,305 --> 00:21:15,297 This ball is mostly empty. 264 00:21:15,408 --> 00:21:17,273 In fact, the universe is mostly empty. 265 00:21:23,16 --> 00:21:27,646 We like to think of space as empty and matter as solid. 266 00:21:27,754 --> 00:21:31,485 But in fact, there is essentially nothing to matter whatsoever. 267 00:21:31,591 --> 00:21:33,718 It's completely insubstantial. 268 00:21:35,662 --> 00:21:37,653 Take a look at an atom. 269 00:21:37,764 --> 00:21:41,256 We think of it as a kind of hard ball. 270 00:21:41,367 --> 00:21:43,267 Then we say, ''Oh, well, not really. 271 00:21:43,369 --> 00:21:48,306 ''It's this little tiny point of really dense matter right at the center... 272 00:21:48,408 --> 00:21:51,866 ''surrounded by a kind of fluffy probability cloud of electrons... 273 00:21:51,978 --> 00:21:54,606 popping in and out of existence. '' 274 00:21:56,49 --> 00:21:57,949 But then it turns out that that's not even right. 275 00:21:58,51 --> 00:22:01,43 Even the nucleus, which we think of as so dense... 276 00:22:01,154 --> 00:22:06,751 pops in and out of existence just as readily as the electrons do. 277 00:22:06,859 --> 00:22:11,159 The most solid thing you can say about all this insubstantial matter... 278 00:22:11,264 --> 00:22:13,198 is that it's more like a thought... 279 00:22:13,299 --> 00:22:17,201 it's like a concentrated bit of information. 280 00:22:18,805 --> 00:22:22,263 What makes up things are not more things... 281 00:22:22,375 --> 00:22:27,210 but what makes up things are ideas, concepts, information. 282 00:22:29,749 --> 00:22:33,378 And like I said, it never touches. 283 00:22:40,860 --> 00:22:42,760 Those electrons build up a charge... 284 00:22:42,862 --> 00:22:45,854 and push the other electrons away before they touch. 285 00:22:48,901 --> 00:22:52,29 So nobody touches nothin'. 286 00:22:52,138 --> 00:22:55,665 Come on. Put your stuff down. Nobody's gonna take it. 287 00:22:55,775 --> 00:22:58,243 Like I said, this is my court. It's no problem. 288 00:23:14,227 --> 00:23:17,162 - How long has it been? - I'll be late. 289 00:23:17,263 --> 00:23:21,757 It's only in conscious experience that it seems that we move forward in time. 290 00:23:21,868 --> 00:23:24,268 In quantum theory, you can also go backwards in time. 291 00:23:24,370 --> 00:23:27,567 You can always go back in time. 292 00:23:34,180 --> 00:23:38,310 What's the matter? Remember, it's empty. 293 00:23:38,418 --> 00:23:41,285 How do you know this shit? 294 00:23:41,387 --> 00:23:47,121 I read Dr. Quantum comics. Everybody thinks it's just kid stuff, but I know it's real. 295 00:23:47,226 --> 00:23:49,854 That's how I do my magic on the court. 296 00:23:49,962 --> 00:23:53,830 Yeah, I always choose the wonder boy first. 297 00:23:53,933 --> 00:23:57,164 - He's got the weirding way. - Well, Dr. Quantum says everybody's got it. 298 00:23:57,270 --> 00:23:59,465 Everybody's doing it. 299 00:23:59,572 --> 00:24:02,973 Doing it constantly, each and every time you look. 300 00:24:03,75 --> 00:24:05,305 When you ain't lookin', it's like a wave. 301 00:24:05,411 --> 00:24:07,777 When you are lookin', it's like a particle. 302 00:24:07,880 --> 00:24:10,280 When you are not looking, there are waves of possibility. 303 00:24:10,383 --> 00:24:13,750 When you are looking, there are particles of experience. 304 00:24:13,853 --> 00:24:16,822 A particle, which we think of as a solid thing... 305 00:24:16,923 --> 00:24:19,619 really exists in a so-called ''superposition, '' 306 00:24:19,725 --> 00:24:23,161 a spread-out wave of possible locations... 307 00:24:23,262 --> 00:24:25,196 and it's in all of those at once. 308 00:24:25,298 --> 00:24:27,391 The instance you check on it... 309 00:24:27,500 --> 00:24:30,992 it snaps into just one of those possible positions. 310 00:24:31,103 --> 00:24:33,469 Quantum superposition implies that... 311 00:24:33,573 --> 00:24:38,704 a particle can be in two or more places or states simultaneously. 312 00:24:38,811 --> 00:24:43,908 And this is a very bizarre concept, and one of the hallmarks of the quantum world. 313 00:24:44,16 --> 00:24:46,814 Superheroes use superposition... 314 00:24:46,919 --> 00:24:50,821 with the world being potential strips of reality until we choose. 315 00:24:50,923 --> 00:24:53,221 Heroes choose what they want... 316 00:24:53,326 --> 00:24:57,262 being in many places at once, experiencing many possibilities all at once... 317 00:24:57,363 --> 00:24:59,991 and then collapsing on the one. 318 00:25:02,468 --> 00:25:06,427 The question is, how far down the rabbit hole do you wanna go? 319 00:25:45,177 --> 00:25:48,78 Nice shot. 320 00:25:48,180 --> 00:25:52,896 How can a system or an object be in two or more states at the same time? 321 00:25:53,96 --> 00:25:56,546 It's very easy... Instead of thinking of things as things. 322 00:25:56,656 --> 00:26:02,94 We all have a habit of thinking that everything around us is already a thing... 323 00:26:02,194 --> 00:26:06,927 existing without my input, without my choice. 324 00:26:07,33 --> 00:26:08,933 You have to banish that kind of thinking. 325 00:26:09,35 --> 00:26:11,60 Instead, you really have to recognize... 326 00:26:11,170 --> 00:26:13,730 that even the material world around us... 327 00:26:13,839 --> 00:26:19,209 the chairs, the tables, the rooms, the carpet... camera included... 328 00:26:19,312 --> 00:26:24,181 all of these are nothing but possible movements of consciousness. 329 00:26:24,283 --> 00:26:27,719 And I'm choosing moment to moment out of those movements... 330 00:26:27,820 --> 00:26:32,416 to bring my actual experience into manifestation. 331 00:26:32,525 --> 00:26:35,358 This is the only radical thinking that you need to do. 332 00:26:35,461 --> 00:26:37,759 But it is so radical... It's so difficult... 333 00:26:37,863 --> 00:26:40,832 because our tendency is that the world is already out there... 334 00:26:40,933 --> 00:26:44,425 independent of my experience. 335 00:26:44,537 --> 00:26:47,973 It is not. Quantum physics has been so clear about it. 336 00:26:48,74 --> 00:26:50,440 Heisenberg himself, codiscoverer of quantum physics... 337 00:26:50,543 --> 00:26:55,139 said atoms are not things, they're only tendencies. 338 00:26:55,247 --> 00:26:58,341 So, instead of thinking of things... 339 00:26:58,451 --> 00:27:01,11 you have to think of possibilities. 340 00:27:01,120 --> 00:27:03,611 They're all possibilities of consciousness. 341 00:27:03,723 --> 00:27:07,716 You now can see in numerous labs around the United States... 342 00:27:07,827 --> 00:27:12,355 objects that are large enough to be seen by the naked eye... 343 00:27:12,465 --> 00:27:15,332 and they are in two places simultaneously. 344 00:27:15,434 --> 00:27:18,870 You can actually take a photograph of that. 345 00:27:18,971 --> 00:27:23,999 Now, I suppose if you showed a photograph, they'd say, ''Oh. Great. 346 00:27:24,110 --> 00:27:27,671 ''Here's this nice blob of colored light, and I see there's... 347 00:27:27,780 --> 00:27:31,11 ''a bit of it over here and another bit... So you've got a picture of two dots. 348 00:27:31,117 --> 00:27:33,17 What's the big deal?'' 349 00:27:33,119 --> 00:27:35,781 You say, ''Look right in the chamber. You can see it right there.'' 350 00:27:35,888 --> 00:27:38,618 ''I see two things there.'' ''No, no. That's not two things... 351 00:27:38,724 --> 00:27:42,524 That's one thing. It's the same thing in two places.'' 352 00:27:43,896 --> 00:27:47,662 I'm not sure that people's jaw would drop about it... 353 00:27:47,767 --> 00:27:50,327 because I think... 354 00:27:50,436 --> 00:27:52,404 I don't think people really believe it. 355 00:27:52,505 --> 00:27:56,771 And I don't mean that people say, ''Oh, you're lying,'' or ''Oh, the scientists are confused.'' 356 00:27:56,876 --> 00:28:02,109 I-I think it is so mysterious that you can't even understand how amazing it is. 357 00:28:02,214 --> 00:28:05,377 And then, furthermore, you've seen Star Trek and whatnot. 358 00:28:05,484 --> 00:28:08,146 ''Beam me up, Scotty.'' So it all seems sort of... 359 00:28:08,254 --> 00:28:10,848 ''Oh, well, what does that really mean?'' 360 00:28:10,956 --> 00:28:13,720 But you've gotta really stop and think about what that means... 361 00:28:13,826 --> 00:28:16,886 That it's the same object and it's in two places at once. 362 00:28:16,996 --> 00:28:20,454 When people tinker in the lab, and they get angry about things, and they have lunch... 363 00:28:20,566 --> 00:28:22,591 and they go home and they lead their lives... 364 00:28:22,702 --> 00:28:25,296 just as though nothing utterly astounding is happening... 365 00:28:25,404 --> 00:28:27,372 because that's how you have to go about it... 366 00:28:27,473 --> 00:28:31,671 And yet, there's this completely amazing magic... 367 00:28:31,777 --> 00:28:35,543 sitting right in front of your eyes. 368 00:28:35,648 --> 00:28:40,85 Quantum physics calculates only possibilities... 369 00:28:40,186 --> 00:28:44,282 but if we accept this, then the question immediately comes... 370 00:28:44,390 --> 00:28:47,450 who, what, chooses among these possibilities... 371 00:28:47,560 --> 00:28:50,495 to bring the actual event of experience? 372 00:28:50,596 --> 00:28:56,00 So we directly, immediately see that consciousness must be involved. 373 00:28:56,102 --> 00:28:59,799 The observer cannot be ignored. 374 00:29:02,708 --> 00:29:06,644 We know what an observer does from a point of view of quantum physics... 375 00:29:06,746 --> 00:29:11,547 but we don't know who or what the observer actually is. 376 00:29:11,650 --> 00:29:14,744 Doesn't mean we haven't tried to find an answer. We've looked. 377 00:29:14,854 --> 00:29:19,154 We've gone inside of your head. We've gone into every orifice you have... 378 00:29:19,258 --> 00:29:21,158 to find something called an observer. 379 00:29:21,260 --> 00:29:23,820 And there's nobody home. There's nobody in the brain. 380 00:29:23,929 --> 00:29:26,22 There's nobody in the cortical regions of the brain. 381 00:29:26,132 --> 00:29:29,101 There's nobody in the subcortical regions or the limbic regions of the brain. 382 00:29:29,201 --> 00:29:31,669 There's nobody there called an observer. 383 00:29:31,771 --> 00:29:36,470 And yet, we all have this experience of being something called an observer... 384 00:29:36,575 --> 00:29:38,475 observing the world out there. 385 00:29:38,577 --> 00:29:40,875 Is this the observer... 386 00:29:40,980 --> 00:29:45,110 and which is so intricate to understanding... 387 00:29:45,217 --> 00:29:47,515 the wacky, weird world... 388 00:29:47,620 --> 00:29:53,149 of quantum particles and how they react? 389 00:29:53,259 --> 00:29:57,662 Is this then the observer? 390 00:30:00,833 --> 00:30:04,428 In my modeling, the observer is the spirit... 391 00:30:04,537 --> 00:30:07,836 inside the four-layer biobodysuit. 392 00:30:07,940 --> 00:30:12,741 And so, it's like the ghost in the machine. 393 00:30:12,845 --> 00:30:17,908 It is the consciousness that's driving the vehicle... 394 00:30:18,17 --> 00:30:20,349 and it is observing the surround. 395 00:30:20,452 --> 00:30:26,391 The four layers of the biobodysuit have all kinds of sensory systems... 396 00:30:26,492 --> 00:30:29,188 to pick up signatures from the surround. 397 00:30:40,472 --> 00:30:42,497 Aw. Good boy. 398 00:31:17,09 --> 00:31:19,876 Where the hell are you? I've got a studio full of people... 399 00:31:19,979 --> 00:31:21,913 but, oh, my God! 400 00:31:22,14 --> 00:31:25,74 There's no photographer. 401 00:31:25,184 --> 00:31:27,618 Where, oh, where can she be? 402 00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:32,123 Aliens? Loch Ness monster? 403 00:31:32,224 --> 00:31:35,57 Or a hot date? 404 00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:37,958 In Washington, D.C., the so-called murder capital of the world... 405 00:31:38,63 --> 00:31:41,55 there was a big experiment in the summer of 1993... 406 00:31:41,166 --> 00:31:44,499 where 4,000 volunteers came from a hundred countries... 407 00:31:44,603 --> 00:31:48,664 to collectively meditate for long periods of time throughout the day. 408 00:31:48,774 --> 00:31:52,403 It was predicted in advance that with such a sized group... 409 00:31:52,511 --> 00:31:55,207 you would have a 25% drop in violent crime... 410 00:31:55,314 --> 00:31:58,408 as defined by the F.B.I. in Washington that summer. 411 00:31:58,517 --> 00:32:02,419 Well, the chief of police went on television saying that... 412 00:32:02,521 --> 00:32:05,115 ''Look. It's gonna take two feet of snow... 413 00:32:05,224 --> 00:32:09,24 to reduce crime by 25% in Washington, D.C. this summer.'' 414 00:32:09,128 --> 00:32:13,758 But by the end, the police department became a collaborator and author of this study... 415 00:32:13,866 --> 00:32:19,395 because the results in fact showed a 25% drop in violent crime in Washington, D.C... 416 00:32:19,505 --> 00:32:22,997 which we could predict on the basis of 48 previous studies... 417 00:32:23,108 --> 00:32:25,633 that had already been done on a smaller scale. 418 00:32:25,744 --> 00:32:28,838 This leads naturally to wonder do people... 419 00:32:28,948 --> 00:32:32,281 are people affecting the world of reality that they see? 420 00:32:32,384 --> 00:32:34,284 You betcha they are. 421 00:32:34,386 --> 00:32:37,787 Every single one of us affects the reality that we see... 422 00:32:37,890 --> 00:32:41,690 even if we try to hide from that and play victim. 423 00:32:41,794 --> 00:32:43,819 We all are doin' it. 424 00:32:46,265 --> 00:32:50,167 Just tell me where you are. 425 00:32:50,269 --> 00:32:52,860 Good. But hurry, will ya, please? Because these models 426 00:32:53,60 --> 00:32:56,02 - are giving me a headache. - Ten minutes! 427 00:33:33,12 --> 00:33:38,541 Our subway exhibit comes to us from Japan and Mr. Masaru Emoto. 428 00:33:38,650 --> 00:33:41,448 Mr. Emoto became terribly interested... 429 00:33:41,553 --> 00:33:46,252 in the molecular structure of water and what affects it. 430 00:33:46,358 --> 00:33:51,22 Now, water is the most receptive of the four elements. 431 00:33:51,130 --> 00:33:55,760 Mr. Emoto thought perhaps it would respond to non-physical events. 432 00:33:55,868 --> 00:34:00,202 So he set up a series of studies, applied mental stimuli... 433 00:34:00,305 --> 00:34:03,638 and photographed it with a dark field microscope. 434 00:34:03,742 --> 00:34:09,612 This first picture is a picture of water from the Fujiwara Dam. 435 00:34:11,350 --> 00:34:14,786 And this picture is the same water... 436 00:34:14,887 --> 00:34:18,948 after receiving a blessing from a Zen Buddhist monk. 437 00:34:23,195 --> 00:34:25,755 Now in this next series of pictures... 438 00:34:25,864 --> 00:34:30,961 Mr. Emoto printed out words, taped them to bottles of distilled water... 439 00:34:31,70 --> 00:34:33,402 and left them out overnight. 440 00:34:33,505 --> 00:34:38,465 This first photograph is the picture of the pure distilled water... 441 00:34:38,577 --> 00:34:40,477 just the essence of itself. 442 00:34:40,579 --> 00:34:43,480 These subsequent photographs, as you can see, are each different. 443 00:34:43,582 --> 00:34:45,846 This is the ''Chi of Love.'' 444 00:34:48,353 --> 00:34:52,153 And we move along here to ''Thank You. '' 445 00:34:52,257 --> 00:34:55,818 And you can see where he taped that, uh, to this bottle here. 446 00:34:55,928 --> 00:34:58,590 But if you read Japanese, you already knew that. 447 00:35:01,834 --> 00:35:05,793 Now, Mr. Emoto speaks of the thought or intent... 448 00:35:05,904 --> 00:35:08,702 being the driving force in all of this. 449 00:35:08,807 --> 00:35:13,05 The science of how that actually affects the molecules is unknown... 450 00:35:13,112 --> 00:35:16,946 except to the water molecules, of course. 451 00:35:17,49 --> 00:35:19,950 And it's really fascinating when you keep in mind... 452 00:35:20,52 --> 00:35:23,21 that 90% of our bodies are water. 453 00:35:34,133 --> 00:35:36,567 Makes you wonder, doesn't it? 454 00:35:36,668 --> 00:35:39,762 If thoughts can do that to water... 455 00:35:39,872 --> 00:35:42,500 imagine what our thoughts can do to us. 456 00:35:59,458 --> 00:36:02,586 Absolutely thought alone can completely change the body. 457 00:36:02,694 --> 00:36:07,757 Most people don't affect reality in a consistent, substantial way... 458 00:36:07,866 --> 00:36:11,29 because they don't believe they can. 459 00:36:11,136 --> 00:36:14,105 They write an intention... 460 00:36:14,206 --> 00:36:17,266 and then they erase it, because they think that's silly... 461 00:36:17,376 --> 00:36:21,437 I mean... I can't do that. And then they write it again, and then they erase it. 462 00:36:21,547 --> 00:36:24,175 So time average, it's a very small effect. 463 00:36:24,283 --> 00:36:29,448 And it really comes down to the fact that they believe they can't do it. 464 00:36:29,555 --> 00:36:32,683 If you accept with every rudiment of your being... 465 00:36:32,791 --> 00:36:35,157 that you will walk on water, will it happen? 466 00:36:35,260 --> 00:36:37,160 Yes, it will. 467 00:36:37,262 --> 00:36:40,823 But you know, it's, uh... it's like positive thinking. 468 00:36:40,933 --> 00:36:43,731 It's a wonderful idea, positive thinking... 469 00:36:43,835 --> 00:36:49,569 but what it usually means is that I have a little smear of positive thinking... 470 00:36:49,675 --> 00:36:53,406 covering a whole mass of negative thinking. 471 00:36:53,512 --> 00:36:56,37 So thinking positive is not really thinking positive. 472 00:36:56,148 --> 00:36:59,879 It's just disguising the negative thinking that we have. 473 00:36:59,985 --> 00:37:04,854 When we think of things, then we make the reality more concrete than it is... 474 00:37:04,957 --> 00:37:07,50 and that's why we become stuck. 475 00:37:07,159 --> 00:37:09,150 We become stuck in the sameness of reality. 476 00:37:09,261 --> 00:37:13,721 Because if reality is concrete, obviously, I am insignificant. I cannot really change it. 477 00:37:13,832 --> 00:37:19,464 But if reality is my possibility... possibility of consciousness itself... 478 00:37:19,571 --> 00:37:23,63 then immediately comes the question of how can I change it? 479 00:37:23,175 --> 00:37:25,507 How can I make it better? How can I make it happier? 480 00:37:25,611 --> 00:37:29,479 You see how we are extending the image of ourselves? 481 00:37:29,581 --> 00:37:32,744 In the old thinking, I cannot change anything... 482 00:37:32,851 --> 00:37:36,116 because I don't have any role at all in reality. 483 00:37:36,221 --> 00:37:40,385 Reality is already there. It's material objects moving in their own way... 484 00:37:40,492 --> 00:37:42,619 from deterministic laws... 485 00:37:42,728 --> 00:37:47,324 and mathematics determines what they will do in a given situation. 486 00:37:47,432 --> 00:37:51,163 I, the experiencer, have no role at all. 487 00:37:51,270 --> 00:37:54,797 In the new view, yes, mathematics can give us something. 488 00:37:54,906 --> 00:38:00,503 It gives us the possibilities that all these movements can assume. 489 00:38:00,612 --> 00:38:06,312 But it cannot give us the actual experience that I'll be having in my consciousness. 490 00:38:06,418 --> 00:38:08,477 I choose that experience. 491 00:38:08,587 --> 00:38:13,251 And therefore, literally, I create my own reality. 492 00:38:13,358 --> 00:38:17,795 It may sound like a tremendous, bombastic claim by some New Agey... 493 00:38:17,896 --> 00:38:20,763 without any understanding of physics whatsoever... 494 00:38:20,866 --> 00:38:23,300 but really quantum physics is telling us that. 495 00:38:38,383 --> 00:38:40,783 Hey! How was the shoot? 496 00:38:40,886 --> 00:38:43,411 Sucked. 497 00:38:47,626 --> 00:38:52,86 Your boss called. He's worried about you. 498 00:39:03,275 --> 00:39:06,608 Amanda, I wanna thank you for letting me stay here. 499 00:39:08,180 --> 00:39:10,910 I know I'm a bit much sometimes... 500 00:39:11,16 --> 00:39:15,578 and that it's been tough after Bob and all. 501 00:39:15,687 --> 00:39:18,588 And, um, you've just been so wonderful. 502 00:39:18,690 --> 00:39:20,783 I mean, I make a mess and... 503 00:39:20,892 --> 00:39:24,293 Well, I clean up afterwards, but it's not really your style. 504 00:39:25,764 --> 00:39:28,232 Sometimes I think you make me sane. 505 00:39:28,333 --> 00:39:30,927 Me? 506 00:39:31,36 --> 00:39:34,335 The day I make someone sane, they're in trouble. 507 00:39:36,241 --> 00:39:39,608 Anyway, um... 508 00:39:39,711 --> 00:39:43,704 I made you something as a thank-you gift. 509 00:39:51,423 --> 00:39:53,823 Open it. 510 00:40:06,405 --> 00:40:09,203 I went through your pictures and picked my favorite ones. 511 00:40:09,307 --> 00:40:13,141 And it took me forever because there are so many good ones. 512 00:40:16,882 --> 00:40:19,578 This... 513 00:40:19,684 --> 00:40:24,87 That's for all the wonderful photos you will be taking. 514 00:40:36,301 --> 00:40:39,532 - Oh! - I've had a strange day. 515 00:40:42,140 --> 00:40:44,40 Thank you. 516 00:41:01,259 --> 00:41:03,523 What is my life? Why is your life? 517 00:41:03,628 --> 00:41:05,721 What is the purpose of life? 518 00:41:05,831 --> 00:41:07,799 Where am I going? What happens when I die? 519 00:41:07,899 --> 00:41:11,596 - Why is there anything at all? - What is reality? 520 00:41:11,703 --> 00:41:14,69 It makes you wonder, doesn't it? 521 00:41:16,441 --> 00:41:19,535 If thoughts can do that to water... 522 00:41:19,644 --> 00:41:22,442 imagine what our thoughts can do to us. 523 00:41:24,616 --> 00:41:28,746 - These are... - Reality comes down to experiences. 524 00:41:28,854 --> 00:41:32,847 - Is this... - Successful... 525 00:41:32,958 --> 00:41:35,620 Have you ever thought about what thoughts are made of?. 526 00:41:35,727 --> 00:41:38,218 Is there a substance of thought? 527 00:41:39,798 --> 00:41:42,460 I guess it just depends on what you think is real. 528 00:41:42,567 --> 00:41:46,59 The world being possible timelines of reality... 529 00:41:47,706 --> 00:41:49,799 until we choose. 530 00:41:49,908 --> 00:41:53,844 Are all realities in the quantum field existing simultaneously? 531 00:41:53,945 --> 00:41:57,39 My definition of an addiction is something you can't stop... 532 00:41:57,148 --> 00:42:01,16 There are different worlds in which we live. 533 00:42:01,119 --> 00:42:05,522 There's the macroscopic world that we see. There's the world of our cells. 534 00:42:05,624 --> 00:42:08,821 There's the world of our atoms. There's the world of our nuclei. 535 00:42:08,927 --> 00:42:11,555 These are each totally different worlds. 536 00:42:11,663 --> 00:42:13,961 They have their own language. They have their own mathematics. 537 00:42:14,65 --> 00:42:17,193 They're not just smaller... Each is totally different. 538 00:42:17,302 --> 00:42:20,703 But they're complementary, because I am my atoms... 539 00:42:20,805 --> 00:42:22,705 but I am also my cells. 540 00:42:22,807 --> 00:42:24,707 I'm also my macroscopic physiology. 541 00:42:24,809 --> 00:42:28,301 It's all true. They're just different levels of truth. 542 00:42:28,413 --> 00:42:32,372 The deepest level of truth uncovered by science and by philosophy... 543 00:42:32,484 --> 00:42:35,146 is the fundamental truth of unity. 544 00:42:35,253 --> 00:42:38,620 At that deepest subnuclear level of our reality... 545 00:42:38,723 --> 00:42:41,89 you and I are literally one... 546 00:42:41,192 --> 00:42:43,717 one... one... one... 547 00:42:57,943 --> 00:43:00,935 I wake up in the morning... 548 00:43:01,46 --> 00:43:04,743 and I consciously create my day the way I want it to happen. 549 00:43:04,849 --> 00:43:07,977 Now, sometimes... 550 00:43:08,86 --> 00:43:12,716 because my mind is examining all the things that I need to get done... 551 00:43:12,824 --> 00:43:16,157 it takes me a little bit to settle down and get to the point... 552 00:43:16,261 --> 00:43:19,424 of where I am actually intentionally creating my day. 553 00:43:19,531 --> 00:43:22,728 But here's the thing. When I create my day... 554 00:43:22,834 --> 00:43:27,498 and out of nowhere little things happen... 555 00:43:27,606 --> 00:43:31,702 that are so unexplainable... 556 00:43:31,810 --> 00:43:36,08 I know that they are the process or the result of my creation. 557 00:43:36,114 --> 00:43:40,744 And the more I do that, the more I build a neural net in my brain... 558 00:43:40,852 --> 00:43:43,616 that I accept that that's possible... 559 00:43:43,722 --> 00:43:47,556 it gives me the power and the incentive to do it the next day. 560 00:43:52,30 --> 00:43:56,865 In addiction, we have a supreme, beautiful opportunity... 561 00:43:56,968 --> 00:43:59,198 to decipher the difference between... 562 00:43:59,304 --> 00:44:04,71 our intangibility of our nobleness of character... 563 00:44:04,175 --> 00:44:08,09 and the day-to-day business of how that character is revealed... 564 00:44:08,113 --> 00:44:12,174 in a three-dimensional world through our bodies. 565 00:44:30,635 --> 00:44:34,332 - I hate weddings. - And what we will learn... 566 00:44:34,439 --> 00:44:36,339 is that addiction is... 567 00:44:36,441 --> 00:44:40,775 the feeling of a chemical rush... 568 00:44:40,879 --> 00:44:44,610 that is cascaded through the bodies... 569 00:44:44,716 --> 00:44:49,210 through a whole assortment of glands and ductless glands... 570 00:44:49,320 --> 00:44:52,118 and through the spinal fluid... 571 00:44:52,223 --> 00:44:55,590 a feeling that some would call... 572 00:44:55,694 --> 00:44:58,322 a sexual fantasy. 573 00:44:58,430 --> 00:45:03,595 It only takes one sexual fantasy for a man to have a hard-on. 574 00:45:03,702 --> 00:45:06,364 In other words, it only takes one thought here... 575 00:45:06,471 --> 00:45:09,907 for a man to have an erection in his member. 576 00:45:10,08 --> 00:45:13,569 And yet, there was nothing outside of him that gave him that. 577 00:45:13,678 --> 00:45:16,738 It was what was within him that gave him that. 578 00:45:21,252 --> 00:45:23,777 Hey, Amanda. I-I didn't know you were there. 579 00:45:25,23 --> 00:45:27,617 Guilty. 580 00:45:27,726 --> 00:45:29,626 A wedding? 581 00:45:29,728 --> 00:45:31,958 Come on, Frank! 582 00:45:32,63 --> 00:45:35,55 This is a good assignment, if you'd see it that way. 583 00:45:35,166 --> 00:45:37,66 What's to see? 584 00:45:37,168 --> 00:45:39,728 ''I do.'' They did. 585 00:45:39,838 --> 00:45:42,671 Aw, God, Amanda. I mean, y-you live in your past... 586 00:45:42,774 --> 00:45:46,73 and everything with you is about ''what happened.'' 587 00:45:46,177 --> 00:45:50,511 You hate churches. You hate weddings. You hate guys. 588 00:45:53,118 --> 00:45:55,18 Now I want you to go scope it out. 589 00:45:56,121 --> 00:45:58,521 Don't need to. I got married there. 590 00:45:58,623 --> 00:46:02,150 I know. I took the pictures, remember? 591 00:46:02,260 --> 00:46:05,93 You got too many memories clouding your vision. 592 00:46:05,196 --> 00:46:07,96 Oh, Amanda, Amanda, Amanda. 593 00:46:07,198 --> 00:46:10,292 You know you're the best technical photographer I have. 594 00:46:10,401 --> 00:46:13,928 And I wanna have some great pictures. 595 00:46:14,38 --> 00:46:15,972 You know what? You need a good Polish wedding. 596 00:46:16,74 --> 00:46:17,488 And watch out for those good Catholic boys, huh? 597 00:46:17,688 --> 00:46:19,373 You mean the priests? 598 00:46:19,911 --> 00:46:22,940 - Come on. Get outta here. - Bye. 599 00:46:24,783 --> 00:46:26,683 When I was younger, um... 600 00:46:26,785 --> 00:46:29,345 I had lots of ideas about what God was. 601 00:46:29,454 --> 00:46:32,150 And now I realize I'm not conscious enough... 602 00:46:32,257 --> 00:46:36,353 to truly understand what that concept means. 603 00:46:40,632 --> 00:46:44,329 That I am at one with the great being that made me and brought me here... 604 00:46:44,435 --> 00:46:48,30 and that formed the galaxies and the universes, et cetera... 605 00:46:48,139 --> 00:46:50,107 how did that get taken out of religion? 606 00:46:50,208 --> 00:46:52,199 It was not hard. 607 00:47:06,791 --> 00:47:12,161 Most of the problems that religion and various philosophical movements... 608 00:47:12,263 --> 00:47:14,857 down through the centuries have produced... 609 00:47:14,966 --> 00:47:18,766 have been errors because that's where they're started... 610 00:47:18,870 --> 00:47:21,930 That God is a distinct separate being from us... 611 00:47:22,40 --> 00:47:26,409 to whom I must offer worship, whom I must cultivate... 612 00:47:26,511 --> 00:47:32,450 humor, please and hope to attain a reward from at the very end of my life. 613 00:47:32,550 --> 00:47:35,246 That is not what God is. 614 00:47:35,353 --> 00:47:37,753 That is a blasphemy. 615 00:47:37,856 --> 00:47:39,756 God is such a broad thing... 616 00:47:39,858 --> 00:47:42,884 um, some parts of which... most of the parts of which... 617 00:47:42,994 --> 00:47:46,20 that are associated with organized religion... 618 00:47:46,130 --> 00:47:48,223 is something that I sort of recoil at. 619 00:47:48,333 --> 00:47:51,894 It's something I think has done a lot of harm to the world, done harm to women... 620 00:47:52,03 --> 00:47:57,134 done harm to oppressed peoples, done harm to the World Trade Center. 621 00:47:57,242 --> 00:47:59,335 And yet, and the same point... 622 00:47:59,444 --> 00:48:04,74 we have the epitome of a great science. 623 00:48:04,182 --> 00:48:07,709 The closest science has ever come... 624 00:48:07,819 --> 00:48:11,84 to explaining Jesus' interpretation that... 625 00:48:11,189 --> 00:48:14,784 the mustard seed was larger than the kingdom of heaven... 626 00:48:14,893 --> 00:48:20,798 and the only science that can fit into that analogy is quantum physics. 627 00:48:28,72 --> 00:48:33,408 Now, we have... 628 00:48:33,511 --> 00:48:36,537 we have great technology... 629 00:48:36,648 --> 00:48:39,208 from antigravity magnets... 630 00:48:39,317 --> 00:48:42,878 and magnetic fields... zero-point energy... 631 00:48:42,987 --> 00:48:46,821 We have all that, and we still have this ugly, superstitious... 632 00:48:46,925 --> 00:48:48,950 backwater concept of God. 633 00:49:06,44 --> 00:49:09,13 People fall into line very readily when they're threatened... 634 00:49:09,113 --> 00:49:12,708 by these cosmic sentences of everlasting punishment. 635 00:49:12,817 --> 00:49:14,842 But this is not how God is. 636 00:49:14,953 --> 00:49:20,50 And once you start to question the traditional images, caricatures of God... 637 00:49:20,158 --> 00:49:22,888 people feel you are an agnostic or an atheist... 638 00:49:22,994 --> 00:49:27,624 or a subverter of the social order. 639 00:49:27,732 --> 00:49:32,362 God must be greater than the greatest of human weaknesses... 640 00:49:32,470 --> 00:49:34,370 and indeed... 641 00:49:34,472 --> 00:49:36,906 the greatness of human skill. 642 00:49:37,08 --> 00:49:41,911 That God must even transcend our most remarkable... 643 00:49:42,13 --> 00:49:45,39 to emulate nature in its absolute splendor. 644 00:49:47,285 --> 00:49:52,552 How can any man or woman sin against such a greatness of mind? 645 00:49:52,657 --> 00:49:57,754 How can any one little carbon unit... 646 00:49:57,862 --> 00:50:02,697 on Earth in the backwaters of... 647 00:50:02,800 --> 00:50:06,600 indeed, the Milky Way, the boondocks... 648 00:50:06,704 --> 00:50:10,37 betray God Almighty? 649 00:50:10,141 --> 00:50:12,109 That is impossible. 650 00:50:12,210 --> 00:50:15,907 The height of arrogance is the height of control... 651 00:50:16,14 --> 00:50:18,710 of those who create God in their own image. 652 00:50:31,229 --> 00:50:33,288 I now present to you... 653 00:50:33,398 --> 00:50:38,62 Mr. and Mrs. Richard ''Buck'' Filipowski. 654 00:51:00,758 --> 00:51:03,955 Brain, when it fires its thoughts... 655 00:51:04,62 --> 00:51:08,999 is likened unto the landscape of a thundercloud. 656 00:51:09,100 --> 00:51:11,864 And the synaptic cleft is the sky between... 657 00:51:11,969 --> 00:51:17,464 the storm and the Earth... the Earth receptor sight. 658 00:51:17,575 --> 00:51:22,478 And you see this foreboding dark cloud... 659 00:51:22,580 --> 00:51:25,515 boiling in the sky... 660 00:51:25,616 --> 00:51:28,779 and you see electrical impulses moving through it... 661 00:51:28,886 --> 00:51:31,81 veins of electric light... 662 00:51:31,189 --> 00:51:35,250 and then you see it hit the ground. 663 00:51:35,359 --> 00:51:39,318 The brain looks like a thunderstorm... 664 00:51:39,430 --> 00:51:43,366 when it is presenting a coherent thought. 665 00:51:43,468 --> 00:51:47,700 So no one is ever seeing the thought. 666 00:51:47,805 --> 00:51:50,603 What they do see in neurophysics... 667 00:51:50,708 --> 00:51:54,405 is that they see a storm raging... 668 00:51:54,512 --> 00:51:57,03 around different quadrants of the brain. 669 00:51:57,115 --> 00:52:01,711 Those are areas that are mapped in the body... 670 00:52:01,819 --> 00:52:04,481 and what a person must be responding to... 671 00:52:04,589 --> 00:52:08,150 a holographic image... 672 00:52:08,259 --> 00:52:11,660 rage, murder, hate... 673 00:52:11,762 --> 00:52:14,230 compassion, love. 674 00:52:14,332 --> 00:52:16,960 The brain does not know the difference between... 675 00:52:17,68 --> 00:52:20,902 what it sees in its environment and what it remembers... 676 00:52:21,05 --> 00:52:24,736 because the same specific neural nets are then firing. 677 00:52:24,842 --> 00:52:28,505 The brain is made up of tiny nerve cells called ''neurons. '' 678 00:52:28,613 --> 00:52:30,877 These neurons have tiny branches that reach out... 679 00:52:30,982 --> 00:52:33,883 and connect to other neurons to form a neural net. 680 00:52:33,985 --> 00:52:37,978 Each place where they connect is incubated into a thought or a memory. 681 00:52:38,89 --> 00:52:42,219 Now, the brain builds up all its concepts by the law of associative memory. 682 00:52:42,326 --> 00:52:45,159 For example, ideas, thoughts and feelings... 683 00:52:45,263 --> 00:52:48,494 are all constructed and interconnected in this neural net... 684 00:52:48,599 --> 00:52:51,830 and all have a possible relationship with one another. 685 00:52:51,936 --> 00:52:54,29 The concept and the feeling of love, for instance... 686 00:52:54,138 --> 00:52:56,698 is stored in this vast neural net. 687 00:52:56,807 --> 00:53:00,265 But we build the concept of love from many other different ideas. 688 00:53:00,378 --> 00:53:03,404 Some people have love connected to disappointment. 689 00:53:03,514 --> 00:53:06,608 When they think about love, they experience the memory of pain... 690 00:53:06,717 --> 00:53:09,447 sorrow, anger and even rage. 691 00:53:09,554 --> 00:53:12,250 Rage may be linked to hurt, which may be linked to a person... 692 00:53:12,356 --> 00:53:16,258 which then is connected back to love. 693 00:53:16,360 --> 00:53:21,24 We build up models of how we see the world outside of us. 694 00:53:21,132 --> 00:53:26,434 And the more information that we have, the more we refine our model one way or another. 695 00:53:26,537 --> 00:53:30,98 And what we ultimately do is tell ourselves a story... 696 00:53:30,208 --> 00:53:32,802 about what the outside world is. 697 00:53:32,910 --> 00:53:38,576 Any information that we process, any information that we take in from the environment... 698 00:53:38,683 --> 00:53:43,416 is always colored by the experiences that we've had... 699 00:53:43,521 --> 00:53:47,617 and an emotional response that we're having to what we're bringing in. 700 00:53:47,725 --> 00:53:52,788 Who is in the driver's seat when we control our emotions or we respond to our emotions? 701 00:53:52,897 --> 00:53:57,129 We know physiologically that nerve cells that fire together wire together. 702 00:53:57,235 --> 00:54:01,672 If you practice something over and over, those nerve cells have a long-term relationship. 703 00:54:01,772 --> 00:54:06,106 If you get angry on a daily basis, if you get frustrated on a daily basis... 704 00:54:06,210 --> 00:54:08,576 if you suffer on a daily basis... 705 00:54:08,679 --> 00:54:12,809 if you give reason for the victimization in your life... 706 00:54:12,917 --> 00:54:16,751 you're rewiring and reintegrating that neural net on a daily basis... 707 00:54:16,854 --> 00:54:19,846 and that neural net now has a long-term relationship... 708 00:54:19,957 --> 00:54:23,17 with all those other nerve cells called an ''identity.'' 709 00:54:23,127 --> 00:54:28,190 We also know that nerve cells that don't fire together no longer wire together. 710 00:54:28,299 --> 00:54:30,859 They lose their long-term relationship... 711 00:54:30,968 --> 00:54:32,868 because every time we interrupt... 712 00:54:32,970 --> 00:54:36,599 the thought process that produces a chemical response in the body... 713 00:54:36,707 --> 00:54:41,701 every time we interrupt it, those nerve cells that are connected to each other... 714 00:54:41,812 --> 00:54:45,373 start breaking the long-term relationship. 715 00:54:45,483 --> 00:54:48,782 When we start interrupting and observing... 716 00:54:48,886 --> 00:54:52,515 not by stimulus and response and that automatic reaction... 717 00:54:52,623 --> 00:54:55,854 but by observing the effects it takes... 718 00:54:55,960 --> 00:55:00,454 then we are no longer the body-mind conscious emotional person... 719 00:55:00,564 --> 00:55:04,125 that's responding to its environment as if it is automatic. 720 00:55:19,850 --> 00:55:22,978 Does that mean emotions are good or emotions are bad? 721 00:55:23,87 --> 00:55:26,750 No, emotions are designed so that it reinforces chemically... 722 00:55:26,857 --> 00:55:29,155 something into long-term memory. 723 00:55:29,260 --> 00:55:31,660 That's why we have them. 724 00:55:31,762 --> 00:55:36,358 All emotion is holographically imprinted chemicals. 725 00:55:36,467 --> 00:55:39,868 The most sophisticated pharmacy in the universe is in here. 726 00:55:39,970 --> 00:55:43,565 There's a part of the brain called the hypothalamus... 727 00:55:43,674 --> 00:55:45,835 and the hypothalamus is like a little mini factory... 728 00:55:45,943 --> 00:55:50,04 and it is a place that assembles certain chemicals... 729 00:55:50,114 --> 00:55:53,379 that matches certain emotions that we experience. 730 00:55:53,484 --> 00:55:56,351 And those particular chemicals are called ''peptides. '' 731 00:55:56,454 --> 00:56:00,49 They're small-chain amino acid sequences. 732 00:56:00,157 --> 00:56:02,216 The body's basically a carbon unit... 733 00:56:02,326 --> 00:56:06,285 that makes about 20 different amino acids altogether... 734 00:56:06,397 --> 00:56:08,592 to formulate its physical structure. 735 00:56:08,699 --> 00:56:11,190 The body is a protein-producing machine. 736 00:56:11,302 --> 00:56:16,239 In the hypothalamus, we take small-chain proteins called peptides... 737 00:56:16,340 --> 00:56:21,801 and we assemble them into certain neuropeptides or neurohormones... 738 00:56:21,912 --> 00:56:26,645 that match the emotional states that we experience on a daily basis. 739 00:56:26,751 --> 00:56:31,313 So there's chemicals for anger, and there's chemicals for sadness... 740 00:56:31,422 --> 00:56:33,720 and there's chemicals for victimization. 741 00:56:33,824 --> 00:56:36,850 There's chemicals for lust. There's a chemical that matches... 742 00:56:36,961 --> 00:56:39,725 every emotional state that we experience. 743 00:56:39,830 --> 00:56:45,632 And the moment that we experience that emotional state in our body or in our brain... 744 00:56:45,736 --> 00:56:49,433 that hypothalamus will immediately assemble the peptide... 745 00:56:49,540 --> 00:56:53,840 and then releases it through the pituitary into the bloodstream. 746 00:56:53,944 --> 00:56:56,572 The moment it makes it into the bloodstream... 747 00:56:56,680 --> 00:57:00,343 it finds its way to different centers or different parts of the body. 748 00:57:00,451 --> 00:57:03,249 Now, every single cell in the body... 749 00:57:03,354 --> 00:57:05,652 has these receptors on the outside. 750 00:57:05,756 --> 00:57:09,192 Now one cell can have thousands of receptors... 751 00:57:09,293 --> 00:57:13,753 studding its surface, kind of opening up to the outside world. 752 00:57:13,864 --> 00:57:16,594 And when a peptide docks on a cell... 753 00:57:16,700 --> 00:57:21,330 it literally, uh, like a key going into a lock... 754 00:57:21,439 --> 00:57:24,966 sits on the receptor surface and attaches to it... 755 00:57:25,75 --> 00:57:27,134 and kind of moves the receptor... 756 00:57:27,244 --> 00:57:31,544 and kind of like a doorbell buzzing, sends a signal into the cell. 757 00:57:31,649 --> 00:57:34,641 It's party time! 758 00:58:20,531 --> 00:58:22,590 What happens in adulthood... 759 00:58:22,700 --> 00:58:26,33 is that most of us who've had our glitches along the way... 760 00:58:26,136 --> 00:58:30,197 are operating in an emotionally detached place... 761 00:58:30,307 --> 00:58:35,244 or we're operating as if today were yesterday. 762 00:58:35,346 --> 00:58:37,940 - What is it? - Mixed. 763 00:58:53,30 --> 00:58:56,329 In either the disconnected place... 764 00:58:56,433 --> 00:58:58,799 or the overly emotional reactive place... 765 00:58:58,903 --> 00:59:03,465 because they've gone to an earlier time in reality... 766 00:59:04,808 --> 00:59:08,938 the person is not operating as an integrated whole. 767 00:59:35,72 --> 00:59:36,972 Along the outside of the cell... 768 00:59:37,74 --> 00:59:39,42 are these billions of receptor sites... 769 00:59:39,143 --> 00:59:42,806 that are really just receivers of incoming information. 770 00:59:42,913 --> 00:59:46,872 A receptor that has a peptide sitting in it, um... 771 00:59:46,984 --> 00:59:49,43 changes the cell in many ways. 772 00:59:49,153 --> 00:59:52,714 It sets off a whole cascade of biochemical events... 773 00:59:52,823 --> 00:59:57,317 some of which wind up with changes in the actual nucleus of the cell. 774 00:59:59,563 --> 01:00:01,690 Hi. 775 01:00:01,799 --> 01:00:04,199 When I grow up, I want to become a photographer just like you. 776 01:00:04,301 --> 01:00:06,428 - Oh? - Got any tips? 777 01:00:06,537 --> 01:00:09,97 - Take lots of pictures. - Thanks! 778 01:00:11,909 --> 01:00:13,934 Each cell is definitely alive... 779 01:00:14,44 --> 01:00:16,376 and, uh, each cell has a consciousness... 780 01:00:16,480 --> 01:00:18,607 particularly if we define consciousness... 781 01:00:18,716 --> 01:00:20,843 as the point of view of an observer. 782 01:00:20,951 --> 01:00:23,78 There is always the perspective of the cell. 783 01:00:32,229 --> 01:00:34,197 In fact, the cell is... 784 01:00:34,298 --> 01:00:36,892 the smallest unit of consciousness in the body. 785 01:00:37,01 --> 01:00:38,969 I'm hungry! 786 01:00:39,69 --> 01:00:42,785 Oh. Yeah. 787 01:00:43,974 --> 01:00:45,874 Oh, yeah! 788 01:00:45,976 --> 01:00:50,208 We've commandeered an entire serving platter. 789 01:01:00,624 --> 01:01:03,593 Yeah! Keep it coming. Keep it coming. Yeah. 790 01:01:04,695 --> 01:01:07,220 - Delicious. - Oh, yeah. Oh. 791 01:01:09,333 --> 01:01:12,234 Well, my definition of an addiction is something really simple: 792 01:01:13,303 --> 01:01:15,203 something that you can't stop. 793 01:01:18,709 --> 01:01:23,942 Don't make me suffer please. Oh, I hurt! 794 01:01:26,684 --> 01:01:29,175 We bring to ourselves situations that will fulfill... 795 01:01:29,286 --> 01:01:31,914 the biochemical craving of the cells of our body... 796 01:01:32,22 --> 01:01:34,684 by creating situations that meet our chemical needs. 797 01:01:34,792 --> 01:01:36,885 It always happens to me. 798 01:01:36,994 --> 01:01:38,962 - Every day! - Why me? 799 01:01:39,63 --> 01:01:42,362 And the addict will always need a little bit more... 800 01:01:42,466 --> 01:01:45,924 in order to get a rush or a high of what they're looking for chemically. 801 01:01:46,36 --> 01:01:49,403 Don't tell me to calm down! You're always bossing me around. 802 01:01:49,506 --> 01:01:53,374 So my definition really means that if you can't control your emotional state... 803 01:01:53,477 --> 01:01:55,377 you must be addicted to it. 804 01:01:55,479 --> 01:01:58,971 Oh, I knew this was gonna happen. 805 01:01:59,83 --> 01:02:02,314 That's not what we agreed upon! You're not going to screw me... 806 01:02:02,419 --> 01:02:04,80 Why don't you read the contract? 807 01:02:04,188 --> 01:02:06,418 - You won't do anything, so I will. - No, no, ma'am. 808 01:02:06,523 --> 01:02:09,924 Don't dip your half-eaten shrimp back into the cocktail sauce. 809 01:02:10,27 --> 01:02:13,121 Screw you and your health codes! I am the bride's sister. 810 01:02:13,230 --> 01:02:16,427 I'll stick my ass in the cocktail sauce if I damn well please. 811 01:02:16,533 --> 01:02:20,902 What are you standing there for? Get out and serve. Make sure everybody has a full platter. 812 01:02:21,04 --> 01:02:24,167 Fun, fun, fun! Listen, Steven. 813 01:02:24,274 --> 01:02:26,834 You won't do anything about it, so... 814 01:02:26,944 --> 01:02:29,03 I want to be a photographer just like you. 815 01:02:56,73 --> 01:03:00,840 So how can anyone really say they're in love with a specific person... 816 01:03:00,944 --> 01:03:02,912 for example? 817 01:03:03,13 --> 01:03:05,641 They're only in love with the anticipation... 818 01:03:05,749 --> 01:03:09,48 of the emotions they're addicted to. 819 01:03:09,153 --> 01:03:14,56 Because the same person could fall out of favor the next week by not complying. 820 01:03:14,158 --> 01:03:17,127 My goodness, doesn't that change the landscape... 821 01:03:17,227 --> 01:03:22,130 of our emotional outlook on personal needs and identities? 822 01:03:39,750 --> 01:03:41,980 Amanda! 823 01:04:07,711 --> 01:04:11,238 How can you not fucking see? 824 01:04:13,16 --> 01:04:15,484 No! No, no, no, no. 825 01:04:15,586 --> 01:04:17,486 You got the... the punch line wrong. 826 01:04:17,588 --> 01:04:20,386 It's a... It's a photographer's joke. 827 01:04:20,490 --> 01:04:23,84 Go on about your, uh... 828 01:04:23,193 --> 01:04:25,787 Uh, music? 829 01:04:30,334 --> 01:04:32,632 Are... Are you okay? 830 01:04:32,736 --> 01:04:35,534 Well, I... 831 01:04:35,639 --> 01:04:40,08 I saw that groom fucking some girl! 832 01:04:40,110 --> 01:04:42,78 Uh, when? 833 01:04:42,179 --> 01:04:46,138 Just now! 834 01:04:46,250 --> 01:04:49,515 I was with the, uh... the groom... 835 01:04:49,620 --> 01:04:51,588 Hey, I can read lips! 836 01:04:51,688 --> 01:04:56,591 Uh, I'm sorry. Uh, I was with the groom just now. 837 01:04:56,693 --> 01:04:59,594 Yeah, he loves Paulette. 838 01:04:59,696 --> 01:05:02,688 Where? 839 01:05:16,380 --> 01:05:19,76 Polacks... They all look the same in a tux. 840 01:05:19,182 --> 01:05:21,150 You're not Polish, are... Uh, hi. 841 01:05:21,251 --> 01:05:24,15 Thanks. Here. 842 01:05:24,121 --> 01:05:26,89 This... This'll help. 843 01:05:34,865 --> 01:05:37,993 - Oh, thank you. - No problem. 844 01:05:38,101 --> 01:05:41,662 That was in my mouth. Forget it. 845 01:05:49,46 --> 01:05:52,607 So, what's your name? 846 01:05:52,716 --> 01:05:56,49 - Elliot. Hi. - Yeah. 847 01:05:56,153 --> 01:05:58,53 - It's a... - I'm Amanda. 848 01:05:58,155 --> 01:06:01,124 Hey, Amanda. I should've asked you what your name... 849 01:06:03,393 --> 01:06:07,830 - You photograph a lot of weddings? - Yeah. I hate it. 850 01:06:07,931 --> 01:06:11,890 I'm doing the thing again with my hands. I'm sorry. 851 01:06:12,02 --> 01:06:15,460 We are emotions and emotions are us. 852 01:06:15,572 --> 01:06:17,540 Again I can't separate emotions. 853 01:06:17,641 --> 01:06:20,201 When you consider that, um... 854 01:06:20,310 --> 01:06:22,278 every aspect of your digestion... 855 01:06:22,379 --> 01:06:24,347 every sphincter that opens and closes... 856 01:06:24,448 --> 01:06:27,246 every group of cells that come in for nourishment... 857 01:06:27,351 --> 01:06:31,947 and then moves out to, um... 858 01:06:32,55 --> 01:06:34,523 heal something or repair something... 859 01:06:34,624 --> 01:06:38,185 Those are all under the influence of the molecules of emotion. 860 01:06:38,295 --> 01:06:40,695 I mean, it's this total buzz. 861 01:06:44,334 --> 01:06:47,565 So you ask if emotions are bad. 862 01:06:47,671 --> 01:06:49,935 Emotions are not bad. They're life. 863 01:06:50,40 --> 01:06:54,500 They color the richness of our experience. It's our addiction that's the problem. 864 01:06:54,611 --> 01:06:56,943 The thing that most people don't realize is that... 865 01:06:57,47 --> 01:06:59,948 when they understand that they are addicted to emotions... 866 01:07:00,50 --> 01:07:03,611 - Another drink? - It's not just psychological. 867 01:07:03,720 --> 01:07:06,18 It's biochemical. Think about this. 868 01:07:06,123 --> 01:07:08,785 Heroin uses the same receptor mechanisms on the cells... 869 01:07:08,892 --> 01:07:10,951 that our emotional chemicals use. 870 01:07:11,61 --> 01:07:14,292 It's easy to see then that if we can be addicted to heroin... 871 01:07:14,398 --> 01:07:18,266 then we can be addicted to any neural peptide, any emotion. 872 01:07:18,368 --> 01:07:20,928 - To the groom! - To the groom. 873 01:07:21,38 --> 01:07:23,472 Whoo! 874 01:07:26,309 --> 01:07:28,209 - What's up, guys? - What's up, man? 875 01:07:28,311 --> 01:07:30,211 - Hello. - What do we need? 876 01:07:30,313 --> 01:07:32,213 - Some foxes. - Who put out. 877 01:07:32,315 --> 01:07:34,283 Yeah, baby! 878 01:07:48,331 --> 01:07:50,663 Cheers. 879 01:07:54,738 --> 01:07:56,831 So... 880 01:07:58,775 --> 01:08:01,437 The relevant search command that's going on... 881 01:08:01,545 --> 01:08:05,641 is related to finding a certain emotional state. 882 01:08:05,749 --> 01:08:08,377 I mean, we can't even direct our eyes... 883 01:08:08,485 --> 01:08:11,181 without having an emotional aspect to it. 884 01:08:31,875 --> 01:08:35,436 Oh. Oh, gosh. 885 01:08:35,545 --> 01:08:37,672 She wouldn't fall for me. 886 01:08:37,781 --> 01:08:41,342 Oh, mama! Whoo! 887 01:08:41,451 --> 01:08:44,420 What the hell are you waitin' for? 888 01:08:44,521 --> 01:08:48,981 Come on, ya little pussies! Geez! I can't believe you guys! 889 01:08:49,92 --> 01:08:53,222 What are you... Ooh! Come on. Come on. Just get the hell out of the way. 890 01:08:53,330 --> 01:08:55,924 Hi there, honey! 891 01:08:56,32 --> 01:08:58,00 Come on, baby. You know you want it. 892 01:08:58,101 --> 01:09:00,467 Oh, don't give me that look. 893 01:09:06,843 --> 01:09:08,970 Now... 894 01:09:09,79 --> 01:09:12,640 what about people who are addicted to sex? 895 01:09:24,828 --> 01:09:26,887 Whoa! 896 01:09:26,997 --> 01:09:30,194 - Whew! - Hello there, big boy. 897 01:09:33,837 --> 01:09:37,705 Is there a rocket in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me? 898 01:10:04,601 --> 01:10:06,899 Yeow! 899 01:10:56,419 --> 01:11:00,355 Snap out of it! Over here! 900 01:11:15,739 --> 01:11:17,639 - I want to hear some... - Hold on. 901 01:11:17,741 --> 01:11:20,608 Would you not touch anything? That's very expensive equipment. All right? 902 01:11:32,88 --> 01:11:35,717 I want to hear some polka music, okay? 903 01:11:35,825 --> 01:11:39,352 These people want to hear some polka music. You can't have a Polish wedding... 904 01:11:39,462 --> 01:11:43,956 without polka music! 905 01:11:47,437 --> 01:11:49,667 No! Would you leave it alone? Keep your... 906 01:11:49,773 --> 01:11:54,335 How can you have a Polish wedding without any... Polish music? 907 01:11:54,444 --> 01:11:57,174 Get your... hands off my equipment! 908 01:12:01,818 --> 01:12:04,582 Like I said before... 909 01:12:04,688 --> 01:12:08,215 it ain't a Polish wedding without a polka! 910 01:14:53,89 --> 01:14:57,856 Our mind literally creates our body. 911 01:14:57,961 --> 01:15:02,227 So it all starts in the cell. The cell is a protein-producing machine... 912 01:15:02,332 --> 01:15:05,927 but it gets its signal from the brain. 913 01:15:06,35 --> 01:15:10,335 One of the things about receptors is they change in their sensitivity. 914 01:15:10,440 --> 01:15:15,707 If a given receptor for a given drug or internal juice... 915 01:15:15,812 --> 01:15:20,977 is being bombarded for a long time at a high intensity... 916 01:15:21,84 --> 01:15:23,518 it will literally shrink up. 917 01:15:23,620 --> 01:15:25,611 There will be less of them. 918 01:15:25,722 --> 01:15:28,520 Or it will be hooked up in such a way... 919 01:15:28,625 --> 01:15:32,527 that it is desensitized or down regulated. 920 01:15:32,629 --> 01:15:36,429 So the same amount of drug or internal juice... 921 01:15:36,533 --> 01:15:39,593 will elicit a much smaller response. 922 01:16:18,975 --> 01:16:23,605 If we're bombarding the cell with the same attitude and the same chemistry... 923 01:16:23,713 --> 01:16:26,181 over and over again on a daily basis... 924 01:16:26,282 --> 01:16:30,582 when that cell finally decides to divide... 925 01:16:30,687 --> 01:16:34,487 when it produces a sister cell or a daughter cell... 926 01:16:34,591 --> 01:16:39,51 that next cell will have more receptor sites... 927 01:16:39,162 --> 01:16:42,325 for those particular emotional neuropeptides... 928 01:16:42,432 --> 01:16:44,400 and less receptor sites... 929 01:16:44,500 --> 01:16:47,663 for vitamins, minerals, nutrients, fluid exchange... 930 01:16:47,770 --> 01:16:50,170 or even the release of waste products or toxins. 931 01:16:50,273 --> 01:16:54,733 Now, all aging is the result of improper protein production. 932 01:16:54,844 --> 01:16:57,39 What happens when we age? 933 01:16:57,146 --> 01:16:59,774 Our skin gets... loses elasticity. 934 01:16:59,882 --> 01:17:02,350 Well, elastin is a protein. 935 01:17:02,452 --> 01:17:05,250 What happens to our enzymes? We don't digest as well. 936 01:17:05,355 --> 01:17:07,721 What happens to our synovial fluid? 937 01:17:07,824 --> 01:17:10,384 Those are proteins that become brittle and stiff. 938 01:17:10,493 --> 01:17:12,859 What happens to our bones? They become thin. 939 01:17:12,962 --> 01:17:17,58 So all aging is a result of improper protein production. 940 01:17:17,166 --> 01:17:19,66 So then the question arises... 941 01:17:19,168 --> 01:17:21,966 does it really matter what we eat? 942 01:17:22,71 --> 01:17:24,631 And does nutrition really have an effect... 943 01:17:24,741 --> 01:17:27,107 if the cell doesn't even have the receptor sites... 944 01:17:27,210 --> 01:17:30,08 after 20 years of emotional abuse... 945 01:17:30,113 --> 01:17:33,571 to even receive, or to let in... 946 01:17:33,683 --> 01:17:36,481 the nutrients that are necessary for its health? 947 01:17:53,202 --> 01:17:56,660 Okay, guys. It's time for a course correction... 948 01:17:56,773 --> 01:18:00,300 on our trajectory, along the path of our adventure. 949 01:18:00,410 --> 01:18:04,39 And that course correction is the movement to a new paradigm... 950 01:18:04,147 --> 01:18:06,138 just an expansion of the old... 951 01:18:06,249 --> 01:18:11,585 just as the universe is larger than we thought it was in our modeling. 952 01:18:11,688 --> 01:18:15,249 And it's always larger than we think it is. 953 01:18:20,63 --> 01:18:22,31 I hate you. 954 01:18:44,187 --> 01:18:46,815 I hate you. 955 01:19:01,270 --> 01:19:03,170 You idiot! 956 01:19:05,775 --> 01:19:07,970 You suck! Look at you! 957 01:19:08,77 --> 01:19:10,136 You're fat! You're ugly! 958 01:19:10,246 --> 01:19:13,773 You are worth nothing! You're getting old! 959 01:19:13,883 --> 01:19:17,512 I hate you! 960 01:19:36,506 --> 01:19:39,407 It makes you wonder, doesn't it? 961 01:19:40,843 --> 01:19:43,812 If thoughts can do that to water... 962 01:19:43,913 --> 01:19:48,714 imagine what our thoughts can do to us. 963 01:20:04,834 --> 01:20:06,995 No one has ever came along... 964 01:20:07,103 --> 01:20:13,42 and ever given you sufficient, intelligent knowledge... 965 01:20:13,142 --> 01:20:15,633 about your beautiful self... 966 01:20:15,745 --> 01:20:19,704 how you work from the inside out. 967 01:20:19,816 --> 01:20:23,445 Why do you have addictions? Because you have nothing better. 968 01:20:23,553 --> 01:20:25,521 You have dreamt of nothing better... 969 01:20:25,621 --> 01:20:28,590 because no one has ever taught you how to dream better. 970 01:20:33,196 --> 01:20:36,893 Do I think that you are bad? I don't think you're bad. 971 01:20:36,999 --> 01:20:39,797 Do I think you're good? I don't think you're good either. 972 01:20:39,902 --> 01:20:41,870 I think you're God. 973 01:20:46,943 --> 01:20:50,504 In general, the field of psychiatry really doesn't... 974 01:20:50,613 --> 01:20:54,549 allow for enough... 975 01:20:54,650 --> 01:20:56,948 freedom of action on people's part... 976 01:20:57,53 --> 01:21:00,250 meaning an awful lot of problems... not all of them, to be sure... 977 01:21:00,356 --> 01:21:04,315 but an awful lot of problems that get labeled as psychological problems... 978 01:21:04,427 --> 01:21:07,294 really amount to people making rotten choices. 979 01:21:07,396 --> 01:21:10,559 And they ought to be instructed to make different ones. 980 01:21:12,368 --> 01:21:14,598 Can I... 981 01:21:17,06 --> 01:21:18,974 Wow. 982 01:21:19,75 --> 01:21:22,442 um, borrow some toothpaste? 983 01:21:31,687 --> 01:21:33,814 Thanks. 984 01:21:38,194 --> 01:21:40,219 When I talk about ''we'' disappearing... 985 01:21:40,329 --> 01:21:42,991 I don't mean that we physically disappear. 986 01:21:43,99 --> 01:21:46,591 What I mean is that we move out of the area of the brain... 987 01:21:46,702 --> 01:21:48,670 that has to do with our personality... 988 01:21:48,771 --> 01:21:53,401 that has to do with our association to people, our association to places... 989 01:21:53,509 --> 01:21:57,468 our association to things and times and events. 990 01:21:57,580 --> 01:22:02,313 We don't exist in the associative centers in our brain... 991 01:22:02,418 --> 01:22:06,377 that reaffirms our identity and reaffirms our personality. 992 01:22:06,489 --> 01:22:09,720 For the average person in the world who lives life... 993 01:22:09,825 --> 01:22:13,818 and considers their life boring or uninspiring... 994 01:22:13,930 --> 01:22:15,898 it's because they've made no attempt... 995 01:22:15,998 --> 01:22:18,694 to gain knowledge and information that will inspire them. 996 01:22:18,801 --> 01:22:22,430 They're so hypnotized by their environment... 997 01:22:22,538 --> 01:22:26,440 through the media, through television... 998 01:22:26,542 --> 01:22:30,638 through people living and creating ideals... 999 01:22:30,746 --> 01:22:33,374 that everybody struggles to become... 1000 01:22:33,482 --> 01:22:35,450 that no one can actually become... 1001 01:22:35,551 --> 01:22:37,746 in terms of physical appearance... 1002 01:22:37,853 --> 01:22:41,482 and definitions of beauty and valor... 1003 01:22:41,590 --> 01:22:43,558 that are all illusions... 1004 01:22:43,659 --> 01:22:48,358 that most people surrender and live their life in mediocracy. 1005 01:22:48,464 --> 01:22:51,433 And they may live that life and the soul may never really... 1006 01:22:51,534 --> 01:22:54,503 their desire may never really rise to the surface... 1007 01:22:54,603 --> 01:22:57,504 so they may want to be something else. 1008 01:22:57,606 --> 01:23:00,74 But if it does rise to the surface... 1009 01:23:00,176 --> 01:23:04,44 and, uh, they ask themselves if there is something more... 1010 01:23:04,146 --> 01:23:07,843 Or, why am I here? What is the purpose of life? 1011 01:23:07,950 --> 01:23:10,214 Where am I going? What happens when I die? 1012 01:23:10,319 --> 01:23:12,617 They start to ask those questions. 1013 01:23:12,722 --> 01:23:16,954 They start to flirt and interact with the perception... 1014 01:23:17,59 --> 01:23:19,254 that they may be having a nervous breakdown... 1015 01:23:19,362 --> 01:23:22,854 and in reality, what they're doing is that their old concepts... 1016 01:23:22,965 --> 01:23:27,561 of how they viewed their life and the world start to fall apart. 1017 01:24:30,933 --> 01:24:34,562 We're in completely new territory in our brain... 1018 01:24:34,670 --> 01:24:36,638 and because we're in completely new territory... 1019 01:24:36,739 --> 01:24:39,299 we're rewiring the brain... 1020 01:24:39,408 --> 01:24:42,969 literally reconnecting to a new concept. 1021 01:24:43,79 --> 01:24:47,379 Then ultimately it changes us from the inside out. 1022 01:24:49,318 --> 01:24:51,878 If I change my mind, will I change my choices? 1023 01:24:51,987 --> 01:24:54,455 If I change my choices, will my life change? 1024 01:24:54,557 --> 01:24:57,117 Why can't I change? What am I addicted to? 1025 01:24:57,226 --> 01:24:59,888 What will I lose that I'm chemically attached to... 1026 01:24:59,995 --> 01:25:03,21 and what person, place, thing, time or event... 1027 01:25:03,132 --> 01:25:06,624 that I'm chemically attached to that I don't want to lose... 1028 01:25:06,735 --> 01:25:10,831 because I may have to experience the chemical withdrawal from that? 1029 01:25:10,940 --> 01:25:13,238 Hence the human drama. 1030 01:25:25,721 --> 01:25:29,487 Amanda, it's Bob, and I'm just calling to say... 1031 01:25:29,592 --> 01:25:32,618 I hope that you can come tonight. 1032 01:25:32,728 --> 01:25:36,596 I really want to see you. I, uh, really want to talk to ya. 1033 01:25:36,699 --> 01:25:38,826 I know we can work things out. 1034 01:25:47,276 --> 01:25:49,744 What's the only planet in the Milky Way... 1035 01:25:49,845 --> 01:25:52,609 that has habitation that is steeped... 1036 01:25:52,715 --> 01:25:58,585 in enormous subjugation of religion? 1037 01:25:58,687 --> 01:26:00,848 You know why that is? 1038 01:26:00,956 --> 01:26:04,858 It's because people have set up right and wrong. 1039 01:26:04,960 --> 01:26:07,895 If I do this, I'm going to get punished by God. 1040 01:26:07,997 --> 01:26:10,693 If I do the other thing, I'm going to get rewarded. 1041 01:26:10,799 --> 01:26:13,700 This is a really poor description... 1042 01:26:13,802 --> 01:26:17,636 that tries to map out a path in life for us to follow... 1043 01:26:17,740 --> 01:26:19,867 but with deplorable results. 1044 01:26:19,975 --> 01:26:23,536 Because there really is no such thing as good or bad. 1045 01:26:23,646 --> 01:26:27,82 We're judging things far too superficially that way. 1046 01:26:27,183 --> 01:26:31,745 Does that mean you're in favor of sin and licentiousness and depravity? No. 1047 01:26:31,854 --> 01:26:35,415 It simply means that you need to improve... 1048 01:26:35,524 --> 01:26:39,255 your expression and understanding of what you're dealing with here. 1049 01:26:39,361 --> 01:26:42,956 There are things that I do, and I know they'll evolve me. 1050 01:26:43,65 --> 01:26:45,260 There are other things that will not evolve me. 1051 01:26:45,367 --> 01:26:49,497 But it's not good or bad. There's no God waiting to punish you... 1052 01:26:49,605 --> 01:26:52,335 because you did one or the other. 1053 01:26:52,441 --> 01:26:56,309 There is no God condemning people. 1054 01:26:56,412 --> 01:26:59,347 Everyone is gods. 1055 01:26:59,448 --> 01:27:03,407 At the same time, God is, um... 1056 01:27:03,519 --> 01:27:05,749 is this sort of placeholder name... 1057 01:27:05,854 --> 01:27:09,312 for those parts of our experience of the world... 1058 01:27:09,425 --> 01:27:12,952 which are somehow transcendent, somehow sublime. 1059 01:27:13,62 --> 01:27:17,362 I have no idea what God is. 1060 01:27:17,466 --> 01:27:20,128 Yet I have an experience that God is. 1061 01:27:20,236 --> 01:27:23,296 There is something very real about this presence called God... 1062 01:27:23,405 --> 01:27:26,738 although I have no idea how to define God... 1063 01:27:26,842 --> 01:27:29,242 to see God as a person or a thing. 1064 01:27:29,345 --> 01:27:31,939 I can't... I can't seem to do it. 1065 01:27:32,47 --> 01:27:37,679 It's kind of like asking a human being to explain what God is... 1066 01:27:37,786 --> 01:27:43,452 is similar to asking a fish to explain the water in which the fish swims. 1067 01:27:43,559 --> 01:27:49,259 God is a superposition of all the spirit from all things. 1068 01:27:50,766 --> 01:27:53,428 You are a God in the making... 1069 01:27:53,535 --> 01:27:56,333 and you have to walk this path. 1070 01:27:56,438 --> 01:28:01,205 But someday, you have to love the abstract... 1071 01:28:01,310 --> 01:28:04,438 as much as you love the condition of addiction. 1072 01:28:07,216 --> 01:28:11,175 The only way that I will ever be great to myself... 1073 01:28:11,287 --> 01:28:14,120 is not what I do to my body... 1074 01:28:14,223 --> 01:28:16,350 but what I do to my mind. 1075 01:28:24,733 --> 01:28:28,533 So if we're consciously designing our destiny... 1076 01:28:28,637 --> 01:28:31,697 and if we're consciously, from a spiritual standpoint... 1077 01:28:31,807 --> 01:28:33,775 throwing in with the idea... 1078 01:28:33,876 --> 01:28:38,176 that our thoughts can affect our reality or affect our life... 1079 01:28:38,280 --> 01:28:40,646 'cause reality equals life... 1080 01:28:40,749 --> 01:28:45,618 then I have this little pact that I have when I create my day. 1081 01:28:45,721 --> 01:28:48,815 I say, ''I'm taking this time to create my day... 1082 01:28:48,924 --> 01:28:52,917 ''and I'm infecting the quantum field. 1083 01:28:53,28 --> 01:28:58,898 ''Now, if in fact the observer's watching me the whole time that I'm doing this... 1084 01:28:59,01 --> 01:29:02,198 ''and there is a spiritual aspect to myself... 1085 01:29:02,304 --> 01:29:05,705 ''then show me a sign today that you paid attention... 1086 01:29:05,808 --> 01:29:08,606 ''to any one of these things that I created... 1087 01:29:08,711 --> 01:29:12,511 ''and bring them in a way that I won't expect... 1088 01:29:12,614 --> 01:29:16,710 ''so I'm as surprised at my ability to be able to experience these things... 1089 01:29:16,819 --> 01:29:21,756 and make it so that I have no doubt that it's come from you.'' 1090 01:29:49,451 --> 01:29:52,11 So the brain is capable of millions of different things... 1091 01:29:52,121 --> 01:29:55,386 that people just really should learn... 1092 01:29:55,491 --> 01:29:58,756 how incredible they actually are and how incredible their minds actually are... 1093 01:29:58,861 --> 01:30:02,58 and that not only do they have this unbelievable thing within their head... 1094 01:30:02,164 --> 01:30:04,27 that can do so many things for them and can help us learn 1095 01:30:04,227 --> 01:30:07,279 and can actually change and adapt... it can make us something better 1096 01:30:07,479 --> 01:30:08,728 than what we actually are... 1097 01:30:08,837 --> 01:30:11,328 and it can actually help us to transcend ourselves... 1098 01:30:11,440 --> 01:30:14,00 There may be some way that it can actually take us... 1099 01:30:14,109 --> 01:30:16,373 to a higher level of our existence... 1100 01:30:16,478 --> 01:30:19,504 where we can actually understand the world in a deeper way... 1101 01:30:19,615 --> 01:30:23,210 where we can understand our relationship to things and people in a deeper way... 1102 01:30:23,318 --> 01:30:26,287 and we can ultimately make more meaning for ourselves in our world. 1103 01:30:26,388 --> 01:30:29,84 We can show that there's a spiritual part of our brain... 1104 01:30:29,191 --> 01:30:33,355 but it's a part that we all can have access to and it's something that we can all do. 1105 01:30:44,573 --> 01:30:47,406 We have to formulate what we want... 1106 01:30:47,509 --> 01:30:51,70 and be so concentrated on it and so focused on it... 1107 01:30:51,180 --> 01:30:53,546 and have so much of our awareness of it... 1108 01:30:53,649 --> 01:30:56,584 that we lose track of ourselves. 1109 01:30:56,685 --> 01:30:58,653 We lose track of time. 1110 01:30:58,754 --> 01:31:00,881 We lose track of our identity. 1111 01:31:00,989 --> 01:31:04,948 And the moment we become so involved in that experience... 1112 01:31:05,60 --> 01:31:09,292 that we lose track of ourselves, we lose track of time... 1113 01:31:09,398 --> 01:31:12,526 that picture is the only picture that's real. 1114 01:31:12,634 --> 01:31:15,262 And everybody's had that experience... 1115 01:31:15,370 --> 01:31:17,998 when they've made up their mind that they've wanted something. 1116 01:31:18,106 --> 01:31:20,74 That's quantum physics in action. 1117 01:31:20,175 --> 01:31:24,805 That's manifesting reality. That's the observer in full effect. 1118 01:31:27,382 --> 01:31:30,840 Your consciousness influences others around you. 1119 01:31:32,287 --> 01:31:34,915 It influences material properties. 1120 01:31:37,292 --> 01:31:39,419 It influences your future. 1121 01:31:41,396 --> 01:31:44,24 You are co-creating your future. 1122 01:32:10,192 --> 01:32:13,161 Show me a sign today that you paid attention... 1123 01:32:13,262 --> 01:32:15,730 to any one of these things that I created... 1124 01:32:15,831 --> 01:32:19,130 and bring them in a way that I won't expect... 1125 01:32:19,234 --> 01:32:23,466 so I'm as surprised at my ability to be able to experience these things... 1126 01:32:23,572 --> 01:32:27,872 and make it so that I have no doubt that it's come from you. 1127 01:32:32,681 --> 01:32:34,876 Do we really know each other? 1128 01:32:34,983 --> 01:32:37,144 What is my life? 1129 01:32:37,252 --> 01:32:39,812 Consciousness of religion is something fundamental. 1130 01:32:48,664 --> 01:32:51,155 Have you ever seen yourself... 1131 01:32:51,266 --> 01:32:54,963 through the eyes of someone else that you have become? 1132 01:32:58,373 --> 01:33:01,342 What an initiation. 1133 01:33:07,716 --> 01:33:12,779 Have you ever stopped for a moment and looked at yourself... 1134 01:33:12,888 --> 01:33:17,257 through the eyes of the ultimate observer? 1135 01:34:02,771 --> 01:34:06,02 I am much more than I think I am. 1136 01:34:06,108 --> 01:34:08,668 I can be much more even than that. 1137 01:34:10,45 --> 01:34:14,345 I can influence my environment, the people. 1138 01:34:15,584 --> 01:34:19,418 I can influence space itself. 1139 01:34:19,521 --> 01:34:22,319 I can influence the future. 1140 01:34:23,425 --> 01:34:25,586 I am responsible for all those things. 1141 01:34:27,963 --> 01:34:31,330 I and the surround are not separate. 1142 01:34:31,433 --> 01:34:33,901 They're part of one. 1143 01:34:34,02 --> 01:34:36,300 I'm connected to it all. 1144 01:34:37,873 --> 01:34:39,841 I'm not alone. 1145 01:34:44,446 --> 01:34:47,813 Knowing that there's this interconnectedness of the universe... 1146 01:34:47,916 --> 01:34:51,477 that we are all interconnected and that we are connected to the universe... 1147 01:34:51,586 --> 01:34:53,554 at its fundamental level... 1148 01:34:53,655 --> 01:34:56,920 I think is as good an explanation for spirituality as there is. 1149 01:34:57,25 --> 01:35:00,984 It is my belief that our purpose here... 1150 01:35:01,96 --> 01:35:05,897 is to develop our gifts of intentionality... 1151 01:35:06,01 --> 01:35:10,802 and learn how to be effective creators. 1152 01:35:10,906 --> 01:35:13,340 We are here to be creators. 1153 01:35:13,442 --> 01:35:18,243 We are here to infiltrate space... 1154 01:35:18,346 --> 01:35:22,578 with ideas and mansions of thought. 1155 01:35:22,684 --> 01:35:25,881 We are here to make something of this life. 1156 01:35:25,987 --> 01:35:28,46 To acknowledge the quantum self... 1157 01:35:28,156 --> 01:35:31,387 to acknowledge the place where we really have choice... 1158 01:35:31,493 --> 01:35:33,825 to acknowledge mind... 1159 01:35:33,929 --> 01:35:37,330 When that shift of perspective takes place... 1160 01:35:37,432 --> 01:35:40,560 we say that somebody has been enlightened. 1161 01:35:46,408 --> 01:35:51,38 Quantum mechanics allows for the intangible... 1162 01:35:51,146 --> 01:35:53,706 phenomenon of freedom... 1163 01:35:53,815 --> 01:35:57,410 to be woven into human nature. 1164 01:35:59,154 --> 01:36:03,113 Quantum physics, very succinctly speaking... 1165 01:36:03,225 --> 01:36:06,353 is a physics of possibilities. 1166 01:36:06,461 --> 01:36:10,56 It opens fundamentally the question of whose possibilities... 1167 01:36:10,165 --> 01:36:13,532 and who chooses from these possibilities... 1168 01:36:13,635 --> 01:36:16,468 to give us the actual event of experience. 1169 01:36:16,571 --> 01:36:20,735 The only answer that is satisfactory both logically and meaningfully... 1170 01:36:20,842 --> 01:36:25,472 is the answer that consciousness is the ground of all being. 1171 01:36:25,580 --> 01:36:29,175 We must pursue knowledge... 1172 01:36:29,284 --> 01:36:32,253 without any interference of our addictions... 1173 01:36:32,354 --> 01:36:36,814 and if we can do that, we will manifest knowledge in reality... 1174 01:36:36,925 --> 01:36:39,655 and our bodies will experience it... 1175 01:36:39,761 --> 01:36:44,425 in new ways, in new chemistry, in new holograms... 1176 01:36:44,533 --> 01:36:48,697 new elsewheres of thought... 1177 01:36:48,804 --> 01:36:51,329 beyond our wildest dreams. 1178 01:36:51,439 --> 01:36:54,897 All of us one day will reach the level of the avatars... 1179 01:36:55,10 --> 01:36:57,535 that we have read about in history... 1180 01:36:57,646 --> 01:36:59,773 the Buddhas and the Jesus. 1181 01:37:02,150 --> 01:37:05,119 Welcome to the kingdom of heaven... 1182 01:37:05,220 --> 01:37:09,179 without judgment, without hate... 1183 01:37:09,291 --> 01:37:13,250 without testing, without anything. 1184 01:37:13,361 --> 01:37:18,663 That we simply are has allowed this reality we call real... 1185 01:37:18,767 --> 01:37:21,258 from the power of intangibility... 1186 01:37:21,369 --> 01:37:25,271 to pull out of inertness, action... chaos... 1187 01:37:25,373 --> 01:37:27,739 and hold it into its form... 1188 01:37:27,843 --> 01:37:30,471 and we call it matter. 1189 01:37:47,162 --> 01:37:49,130 How can we measure the effects? 1190 01:37:49,231 --> 01:37:53,691 We get to live our life and see then if somewhere in our lives... 1191 01:37:53,802 --> 01:37:56,600 something's changed. 1192 01:37:58,707 --> 01:38:00,607 And then if it has changed... 1193 01:38:00,709 --> 01:38:04,236 we become the scientists to our life... 1194 01:38:04,346 --> 01:38:06,814 which is the whole reason why we're here. 1195 01:38:49,758 --> 01:38:52,727 Don't just take it at face value. 1196 01:38:52,827 --> 01:38:55,295 Test it out and see whether it's true. 1197 01:39:08,643 --> 01:39:12,443 - Hey, you're back. - I'm back. 1198 01:39:12,547 --> 01:39:16,643 - So you never answered my question. - What question? 1199 01:39:16,751 --> 01:39:20,448 How far down the rabbit hole do you want to go? 1200 01:39:43,144 --> 01:39:45,510 Ponder that for a while. 1201 01:39:55,490 --> 01:39:58,254 My name's David Albert. Um... 1202 01:39:58,360 --> 01:40:02,319 I, uh, got a Ph.D. in theoretical physics. 1203 01:40:05,367 --> 01:40:09,565 I studied biochemistry at Rutgers University... 1204 01:40:09,671 --> 01:40:11,639 and then went to chiropractic college... 1205 01:40:11,740 --> 01:40:14,72 at Life University in Atlanta, Georgia. 1206 01:40:14,175 --> 01:40:17,611 My postgraduate training is in anatomy and physiology... 1207 01:40:17,712 --> 01:40:20,704 neurochemistry, neurophysiology and genetics. 1208 01:40:22,884 --> 01:40:25,512 I study quantum physics. I sometimes teach it. 1209 01:40:25,620 --> 01:40:28,350 I have written a book on quantum physics and many books... 1210 01:40:28,456 --> 01:40:31,425 explicating the meaning of quantum physics. 1211 01:40:34,629 --> 01:40:37,325 After my Ph.D. from Harvard, I went to CERN... 1212 01:40:37,432 --> 01:40:39,400 a European laboratory for particle research... 1213 01:40:39,501 --> 01:40:41,469 and then joined faculty at Stanford. 1214 01:40:41,569 --> 01:40:45,198 And my work there has been the development of unified quantum field theories. 1215 01:40:45,306 --> 01:40:49,03 I have about a hundred publications in this area, but perhaps I'm best known... 1216 01:40:49,110 --> 01:40:52,546 for the discovery of super symmetric flipped SU5... 1217 01:40:52,647 --> 01:40:54,615 grand unified field theory. 1218 01:40:59,721 --> 01:41:02,121 I make my living as an anesthesiologist... 1219 01:41:02,223 --> 01:41:04,691 and every day as I put my patients to sleep... 1220 01:41:04,793 --> 01:41:07,921 I kind of wonder where they go and why they're there in the first place. 1221 01:41:08,29 --> 01:41:09,997 That's one of the reasons that attracted me... 1222 01:41:10,98 --> 01:41:12,498 to anesthesia and the study of consciousness. 1223 01:41:17,38 --> 01:41:19,63 My name is Miceal Ledwith... 1224 01:41:19,174 --> 01:41:24,635 and for most of my life I was a professor of theology. 1225 01:41:27,916 --> 01:41:30,510 I'm Dr. Daniel Monti. I'm a physician... 1226 01:41:30,618 --> 01:41:33,485 with specialty training in psychiatry and human behavior. 1227 01:41:33,588 --> 01:41:37,46 I'm on the full-time faculty at the Jefferson Medical College. 1228 01:41:38,760 --> 01:41:40,660 I actually got very interested in studying... 1229 01:41:40,762 --> 01:41:43,128 this whole topic of the brain and spirituality... 1230 01:41:43,231 --> 01:41:46,997 because it had to do with the questions I was asking since I was a child... 1231 01:41:47,102 --> 01:41:51,95 about reality and how we understood truth and what was real. 1232 01:41:51,206 --> 01:41:53,731 As I grew up and as I realized that... 1233 01:41:53,842 --> 01:41:56,367 while spirituality was, in some senses... 1234 01:41:56,478 --> 01:41:58,605 a very important part of trying to find those answers... 1235 01:41:58,713 --> 01:42:00,681 science also was a very crucial part. 1236 01:42:00,782 --> 01:42:03,478 I was ultimately looking for some way... 1237 01:42:03,585 --> 01:42:05,917 of bringing those two forces together. 1238 01:42:10,658 --> 01:42:12,558 Well, my name is Candace Pert... 1239 01:42:12,660 --> 01:42:16,619 and I'm a professor at Georgetown in the medical school. 1240 01:42:19,400 --> 01:42:21,960 Here we are actually filming great thinkers. 1241 01:42:22,70 --> 01:42:24,538 Everyone in this room is a great thinker... 1242 01:42:24,639 --> 01:42:27,437 now that we got 'em thinking. 1243 01:42:27,542 --> 01:42:29,510 That's always a trick, isn't it? 1244 01:42:32,13 --> 01:42:35,676 I should make it clear that I'm a graduate student in physics. 1245 01:42:35,783 --> 01:42:39,241 I'm not a full-fledged theoretical physicist yet. 1246 01:42:39,354 --> 01:42:42,448 Uh, but if fortune smiles on me... 1247 01:42:42,557 --> 01:42:47,153 and I continue to work like a dog on my problem sets and exams and whatnot... 1248 01:42:47,262 --> 01:42:49,492 eventually what I hope to do with this is... 1249 01:42:49,597 --> 01:42:53,431 is to apply fundamental quantum theory... 1250 01:42:53,535 --> 01:42:56,504 to quantum information processing. 1251 01:42:58,973 --> 01:43:02,340 So I decided, well, if I gave up being department chairman... 1252 01:43:02,443 --> 01:43:04,877 and if I gave up all my professional committees... 1253 01:43:04,979 --> 01:43:09,279 and I gave up all my government committees, I would have a block of time... 1254 01:43:09,384 --> 01:43:11,716 that I could put to work. 1255 01:43:11,819 --> 01:43:14,14 Of course I gave up all my power positions... 1256 01:43:14,122 --> 01:43:16,352 but you have to sacrifice something. 1257 01:43:16,457 --> 01:43:20,18 I had to keep my day job because my family needed to be fed. 1258 01:43:27,335 --> 01:43:30,566 I presume that you're asking me how a scientist can sound this wacko... 1259 01:43:30,672 --> 01:43:35,371 because I must be sounding wacko. 1260 01:43:35,476 --> 01:43:40,277 It's really an interesting question. If you study science long enough... 1261 01:43:40,381 --> 01:43:43,680 and seriously enough and dig deeply enough... 1262 01:43:43,785 --> 01:43:46,481 if you don't come out feeling wacko about it... 1263 01:43:46,588 --> 01:43:48,556 you haven't understood a thing.