1 00:00:43,677 --> 00:00:46,578 What's going on, and why am I here? 2 00:00:52,386 --> 00:00:55,082 - Where do we come from? - What do quantum physics-- 3 00:00:55,188 --> 00:00:58,214 - Immense quantum mechanical isotopes. - Physics of possibility. 4 00:00:58,325 --> 00:01:01,089 Quantum mechanics allows-- 5 00:01:04,865 --> 00:01:06,924 Supreme mind. 6 00:01:07,034 --> 00:01:09,434 - Brain is capable of millions-- - A neural net. 7 00:01:09,536 --> 00:01:12,027 - Cascade of biochemical-- - An emotional response-- 8 00:01:12,139 --> 00:01:14,039 Molecules-- 9 00:01:14,141 --> 00:01:16,575 The brain does not know the difference between... 10 00:01:16,677 --> 00:01:19,407 what it sees in its environment and what it remembers. 11 00:01:19,513 --> 00:01:21,640 We are running the holodeck. 12 00:01:23,283 --> 00:01:26,582 Whatever way we observe the world around us-- 13 00:01:26,687 --> 00:01:31,454 So how can you continue to see the world as real... 14 00:01:31,558 --> 00:01:36,427 if the self that is determining it to be real is intangible? 15 00:02:35,155 --> 00:02:39,649 Are all realities existing simultaneously? 16 00:02:44,531 --> 00:02:46,897 Is there a possibility... 17 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:50,663 that all potentials exist side by side? 18 00:02:57,010 --> 00:03:01,879 Have you ever seen yourself through the eyes of someone else that you have become... 19 00:03:13,994 --> 00:03:18,727 and looked at yourself through the eyes of the ultimate observer? 20 00:03:23,136 --> 00:03:25,468 Who are we? 21 00:03:25,572 --> 00:03:29,064 Where do we come from, what should we do... 22 00:03:29,176 --> 00:03:32,202 and where are we going? 23 00:03:32,312 --> 00:03:37,113 Why are we here? Well, that is the ultimate question, isn't it? 24 00:03:37,217 --> 00:03:39,583 What is reality? 25 00:03:39,686 --> 00:03:43,144 What I thought was unreal, now for me... 26 00:03:43,256 --> 00:03:47,420 seems in some ways to be more real than what I think to be real... 27 00:03:47,527 --> 00:03:50,826 which seems now more to be unreal. 28 00:03:50,931 --> 00:03:52,831 You can't explain it, um... 29 00:03:52,933 --> 00:03:55,458 and anybody who gets too lost in try-- 30 00:03:55,569 --> 00:03:57,469 anybody who spends too much time trying to explain it... 31 00:03:57,571 --> 00:04:01,667 is likely to get lost forever down the rabbit hole of mysteriousness. 32 00:04:03,243 --> 00:04:05,438 I think the more you look at quantum physics... 33 00:04:05,545 --> 00:04:08,878 the more mysterious and wondrous it becomes. 34 00:04:08,982 --> 00:04:11,780 Quantum physics... 35 00:04:11,885 --> 00:04:16,049 very succinctly speaking... 36 00:04:16,156 --> 00:04:19,216 is a physics of possibilities. 37 00:04:20,260 --> 00:04:22,160 These are questions-- 38 00:04:22,262 --> 00:04:26,926 These are addressing questions, um, of how the world feels to us... 39 00:04:27,033 --> 00:04:30,298 of-of whether there's a difference between the way the world feels to us... 40 00:04:30,403 --> 00:04:32,667 and the way it really is. 41 00:04:32,773 --> 00:04:36,140 Have you ever thought about what thoughts are made of? 42 00:04:36,243 --> 00:04:39,440 I think some of the things we're seeing with the children today... 43 00:04:39,546 --> 00:04:42,640 is a sign that the culture is in the wrong paradigm... 44 00:04:42,749 --> 00:04:46,480 and not appreciating the power of thought. 45 00:04:46,586 --> 00:04:49,350 Every age, every generation has its built-in assumptions-- 46 00:04:49,456 --> 00:04:52,653 That the world is flat, or that the world is round, et cetera. 47 00:04:52,759 --> 00:04:54,659 There are hundreds of hidden assumptions... 48 00:04:54,761 --> 00:04:58,390 things we take for granted, that may or may not be true. 49 00:04:58,498 --> 00:05:02,332 Of course, in the vast majority of cases, historically, these things aren't true. 50 00:05:02,435 --> 00:05:04,995 So presumably, if history is any guide... 51 00:05:05,105 --> 00:05:10,099 much about what we take for granted about the world simply isn't true. 52 00:05:10,210 --> 00:05:14,374 But we're locked into these precepts without even knowing it oftentimes. 53 00:05:14,481 --> 00:05:16,449 That's a paradigm. 54 00:05:16,550 --> 00:05:19,314 Modern materialism... 55 00:05:19,419 --> 00:05:23,287 strips people of the need to feel responsible... 56 00:05:23,390 --> 00:05:26,450 and often enough, so does religion. 57 00:05:26,560 --> 00:05:30,087 But I think if you take quantum mechanics seriously enough... 58 00:05:30,197 --> 00:05:33,360 it puts the responsibility squarely in your lap. 59 00:05:33,466 --> 00:05:38,836 And it doesn't give answers that are clear-cut... 60 00:05:38,939 --> 00:05:41,373 and comforting. 61 00:05:41,474 --> 00:05:46,207 It says, yes, the world is a very big place. It's very mysterious. 62 00:05:46,313 --> 00:05:52,252 Mechanism is not the answer, but I'm not gonna tell you what the answer is... 63 00:05:52,352 --> 00:05:56,288 because you're old enough to decide for yourself. 64 00:05:57,991 --> 00:06:00,755 Is everyone a mystery? 65 00:06:00,861 --> 00:06:03,728 Is everyone an enigma? 66 00:06:03,830 --> 00:06:06,560 They most certainly are. 67 00:06:06,666 --> 00:06:12,229 Asking yourself these deeper questions opens up new ways of being in the world. 68 00:06:12,339 --> 00:06:14,773 It brings in a breath of fresh air. 69 00:06:14,875 --> 00:06:18,208 It makes life more joyful. 70 00:06:18,311 --> 00:06:22,645 The real trick to life is not to be in the know... 71 00:06:22,749 --> 00:06:24,774 but be in the mystery. 72 00:06:42,102 --> 00:06:45,731 Why do we keep re-creating the same reality? 73 00:06:45,839 --> 00:06:48,273 Why do we keep having the same relationships? 74 00:06:49,609 --> 00:06:51,509 Why do we keep getting the samejobs... 75 00:06:51,611 --> 00:06:55,012 over and over again? 76 00:06:55,115 --> 00:06:59,347 In this infinite sea of potentials that exist around us... 77 00:06:59,452 --> 00:07:03,821 how come we keep re-creating the same realities? 78 00:07:03,924 --> 00:07:07,985 Isn't it amazing that we have options and potentials that exist... 79 00:07:08,094 --> 00:07:11,154 but we're unaware of them? 80 00:07:11,264 --> 00:07:15,758 Is it possible that we're so conditioned to our daily lives... 81 00:07:15,869 --> 00:07:18,861 so conditioned to the way we create our lives... 82 00:07:18,972 --> 00:07:23,238 that we buy the idea that we have no control at all? 83 00:07:24,644 --> 00:07:26,578 We've been conditioned to believe... 84 00:07:26,680 --> 00:07:29,979 that the external world is more real than the internal world. 85 00:07:30,083 --> 00:07:33,018 This new model of science says just the opposite-- 86 00:07:33,119 --> 00:07:37,988 It says what's happening within us will create what's happening outside of us. 87 00:07:38,091 --> 00:07:41,322 There's a physical reality that is absolutely rock-solid... 88 00:07:41,428 --> 00:07:44,727 and yet... it only-- 89 00:07:44,831 --> 00:07:47,629 If you wanna put it this way, it only comes into existence... 90 00:07:47,734 --> 00:07:52,899 when it bumps up against some other piece of physical reality. 91 00:07:53,006 --> 00:07:56,737 That other piece may be us, and of course, we're partial to those moments... 92 00:07:56,843 --> 00:07:58,970 but it doesn't have to be either. 93 00:07:59,079 --> 00:08:03,948 You know, it could be just some incidental rock comes flying along... 94 00:08:04,050 --> 00:08:07,383 and interacts with this fuzzy mass of stuff... 95 00:08:07,487 --> 00:08:13,426 and sure enough, it provokes it into a particular state of existence. 96 00:08:13,526 --> 00:08:16,518 There were philosophers in the past that said, ''Look, if I kick a rock... 97 00:08:16,629 --> 00:08:18,529 ''and I hurt my toe, that's real. 98 00:08:18,631 --> 00:08:21,259 ''I feel that. It feels real. It's vivid. 99 00:08:21,368 --> 00:08:23,996 And that means that it's reality.'' 100 00:08:24,104 --> 00:08:29,041 But it's still an experience, and it's still this person's perception of it being real. 101 00:08:29,142 --> 00:08:34,136 Scientific experiments have shown that if we take a person and, uh... 102 00:08:34,247 --> 00:08:37,876 hook their brains up to certain PET scans or computer technology... 103 00:08:37,984 --> 00:08:41,920 and ask them to look at a certain object... 104 00:08:42,022 --> 00:08:45,480 and they watch, certain areas of the brain light up. 105 00:08:45,592 --> 00:08:48,186 And then they've asked them to close their eyes... 106 00:08:48,294 --> 00:08:50,956 and now imagine that same object. 107 00:08:51,064 --> 00:08:53,692 And when they imagine that same object... 108 00:08:53,800 --> 00:08:57,497 it produced the same areas of the brain to light up... 109 00:08:57,604 --> 00:08:59,663 as if they were actually visually looking at it. 110 00:08:59,773 --> 00:09:03,231 So it caused scientists to back up and ask this question. 111 00:09:03,343 --> 00:09:08,337 So who sees then? Does the brain see? Or do the eyes see? 112 00:09:08,448 --> 00:09:13,215 And what is reality? Is reality what we're seeing with our brain... 113 00:09:13,319 --> 00:09:16,015 or is reality what we're seeing with our eyes? 114 00:09:16,122 --> 00:09:19,489 And the truth is is that the brain does not know the difference... 115 00:09:19,592 --> 00:09:22,993 between what it sees in its environment and what it remembers... 116 00:09:23,096 --> 00:09:27,260 because the same specific neural nets are then firing. 117 00:09:27,367 --> 00:09:31,463 So then it asks the question: What is reality? 118 00:09:37,277 --> 00:09:41,509 We're bombarded by huge amounts of information... 119 00:09:41,614 --> 00:09:44,242 and it's coming into our body, and we're processing it-- 120 00:09:44,350 --> 00:09:47,285 coming in through our sense organs, and it's percolating up and up... 121 00:09:47,387 --> 00:09:50,686 - and at each step we're eliminating information. 122 00:09:50,790 --> 00:09:53,759 And finally, what is bubbling up to consciousness is... 123 00:09:53,860 --> 00:09:57,261 the one that's the most self-serving. 124 00:09:57,363 --> 00:10:01,231 The brain processes 400 billion bits of information a second... 125 00:10:01,334 --> 00:10:03,529 but we're only aware of 2,000 of those. 126 00:10:03,636 --> 00:10:07,834 But our awareness of those 2,000 bits of information... 127 00:10:07,941 --> 00:10:12,173 arejust about the environment, our body and about time. 128 00:10:27,393 --> 00:10:31,193 We're living in a world where all we see is the tip of the iceberg-- 129 00:10:31,297 --> 00:10:35,859 the classical tip of an immense quantum mechanical iceberg. 130 00:10:37,470 --> 00:10:41,531 - Hey, wow! You got a lot of shots to develop? - No. 131 00:10:41,641 --> 00:10:45,975 Oh, bummer. Well, I'll catch you later. 132 00:11:03,596 --> 00:11:07,532 If the brain is processing 400 billion bits of information... 133 00:11:07,634 --> 00:11:10,262 and our awareness is only on 2,000-- 134 00:11:10,370 --> 00:11:13,635 - that means reality's happening in the brain all the time. 135 00:11:13,740 --> 00:11:18,643 It's receiving that information, and yet we haven't integrated it. 136 00:11:22,715 --> 00:11:24,910 The eyes are like the lens. 137 00:11:25,018 --> 00:11:28,510 But the tape that's really seeing is the back of the brain. 138 00:11:28,621 --> 00:11:30,612 It's called the visual cortex. It's right back here. 139 00:11:30,723 --> 00:11:33,988 It's like this camera and its tape. 140 00:11:34,093 --> 00:11:40,032 Did you know that the brain imprints what it has the ability to see? 141 00:11:40,133 --> 00:11:42,033 This is important. 142 00:11:42,135 --> 00:11:44,968 For example: 143 00:11:45,071 --> 00:11:49,371 This camera is seeing a lot more around me... 144 00:11:49,475 --> 00:11:52,342 than what is here... 145 00:11:52,445 --> 00:11:56,472 because it is-- has no objection and no judgment. 146 00:12:01,988 --> 00:12:06,322 The only movie that's playing in the brain... 147 00:12:06,426 --> 00:12:10,487 is what we have the ability to see. 148 00:12:10,597 --> 00:12:13,361 So is it possible our eyes, our cameras... 149 00:12:13,466 --> 00:12:16,026 see more than what our brain... 150 00:12:16,135 --> 00:12:19,832 has the ability to consciously project? 151 00:12:22,308 --> 00:12:24,674 Well, the way our brain is wired up... 152 00:12:24,777 --> 00:12:28,076 we only see what we believe is possible. 153 00:12:28,181 --> 00:12:31,446 Um, we match patterns that already... 154 00:12:31,551 --> 00:12:35,146 uh, exist within ourselves through conditioning. 155 00:12:35,255 --> 00:12:38,884 So, a wonderful story that I believe is true... 156 00:12:38,992 --> 00:12:42,928 is that when the Indians-- the Native American Indians... 157 00:12:43,029 --> 00:12:47,966 on the Caribbean Islands saw Columbus's ships approaching... 158 00:12:48,067 --> 00:12:50,058 they couldn't see them at all. 159 00:12:50,169 --> 00:12:52,330 Because it was so... 160 00:12:52,438 --> 00:12:55,635 unlike anything they had ever seen before, they couldn't see it. 161 00:12:55,742 --> 00:12:58,302 When Columbus's armada landed in the Caribbean... 162 00:12:58,411 --> 00:13:00,879 none of the natives were able to see the ships... 163 00:13:00,980 --> 00:13:03,346 even though they existed on the horizon. 164 00:13:03,449 --> 00:13:06,145 The reason that they never saw the ships was because... 165 00:13:06,252 --> 00:13:12,191 they had no knowledge in their brains, or no experience, that clipper ships existed. 166 00:13:12,292 --> 00:13:18,197 So the shaman starts to notice that there's ripples out in the ocean, but he sees no ship... 167 00:13:18,298 --> 00:13:21,096 but he starts to wonder what's causing the effect. 168 00:13:21,200 --> 00:13:24,533 So every day he goes out and looks and looks and looks. 169 00:13:24,637 --> 00:13:27,697 And after a period of time, he's able to see the ships. 170 00:13:27,807 --> 00:13:32,744 And once he sees the ships, he tells everybody else that ships exist out there. 171 00:13:32,845 --> 00:13:37,839 Because everybody trusted and believed in him, they saw them also. 172 00:14:05,978 --> 00:14:10,540 We create reality. We're reality-producing machines. 173 00:14:10,650 --> 00:14:14,086 We create the effects of reality all the time. 174 00:14:16,522 --> 00:14:22,085 We always perceive something after reflection in the mirror of memory. 175 00:14:26,966 --> 00:14:29,867 As far as whether or not we're just living in a big holodeck or not... 176 00:14:29,969 --> 00:14:32,301 it's a question we don't necessarily have a good answer to. 177 00:14:32,405 --> 00:14:35,636 I think this is a big philosophical problem we have to deal with... 178 00:14:35,742 --> 00:14:38,438 in terms of what science can say about our world... 179 00:14:38,544 --> 00:14:41,274 because we are always the observer in science. 180 00:14:41,381 --> 00:14:43,281 So we are still always constrained... 181 00:14:43,383 --> 00:14:46,614 by what is ultimately coming into the human brain... 182 00:14:46,719 --> 00:14:49,483 that allows us to see and perceive the things we do. 183 00:14:49,589 --> 00:14:53,457 So it is conceivable that all of this really is just a great illusion... 184 00:14:53,559 --> 00:14:58,656 that we have no way of really getting outside of to see what is really out there. 185 00:14:58,765 --> 00:15:01,928 Your brain doesn't know the difference between what's taking place out there... 186 00:15:02,034 --> 00:15:03,934 and what's taking place in here. 187 00:15:04,036 --> 00:15:08,735 There is no ''out there'' out there independent of what's going on in here. 188 00:15:16,182 --> 00:15:20,744 You okay? I heard you scream earlier. Was it another dream? 189 00:15:23,256 --> 00:15:26,157 - You were an Indian... 190 00:15:26,259 --> 00:15:30,923 watching Columbus's ship materialize out of thin air. 191 00:15:31,030 --> 00:15:33,328 Wow. 192 00:15:33,433 --> 00:15:36,266 And this medicine man kept hitting you. 193 00:15:36,369 --> 00:15:39,702 Cool. That's-- 194 00:15:39,806 --> 00:15:44,266 Hey, maybe it was a past life or a parallel reality... 195 00:15:44,377 --> 00:15:46,277 or a future life. 196 00:15:46,379 --> 00:15:48,313 Get real. 197 00:15:52,285 --> 00:15:55,220 Or maybe that dream was trying to tell you the truth. 198 00:15:55,321 --> 00:15:59,052 I guess it just depends on what you think is real. 199 00:15:59,158 --> 00:16:01,183 Maybe you should try different anxiety pills. 200 00:16:01,294 --> 00:16:04,161 My pills are fine, okay? Thank you. 201 00:16:05,565 --> 00:16:08,966 Well, I have to go get dressed. 202 00:16:11,003 --> 00:16:14,996 Mmm. I hope you feel better, Amanda. 203 00:16:23,049 --> 00:16:27,611 God, Amanda. You can be such an asshole. 204 00:16:39,098 --> 00:16:44,229 There actually are choices in the direction ofhow a life can go... 205 00:16:44,337 --> 00:16:49,866 that are contingent upon small-level quantum effects... 206 00:16:49,976 --> 00:16:52,740 not being washed out. 207 00:16:52,845 --> 00:16:56,042 First of all, let's talk about the subatomic world... 208 00:16:56,148 --> 00:16:58,582 and then we'll talk about what it's telling us about reality. 209 00:16:58,684 --> 00:17:00,743 The first thing I wanna tell you about the subatomic world... 210 00:17:00,853 --> 00:17:06,120 is it's totally a fantasy created by mad physicists trying to figure out... 211 00:17:06,225 --> 00:17:09,661 what the heck is goin' on when they do these little experiments. 212 00:17:09,762 --> 00:17:14,461 By little experiments, I mean big energy in little spaces in little pieces of time. 213 00:17:14,567 --> 00:17:17,195 It gets pretty nutty at that realm of things... 214 00:17:17,303 --> 00:17:21,433 and so subatomic physics was invented to try to figure that all out. 215 00:17:21,541 --> 00:17:25,033 We need a new science down there, and it's called quantum physics... 216 00:17:25,144 --> 00:17:30,548 and it is subject to a whole range of debatable hypotheses... 217 00:17:30,650 --> 00:17:35,986 thoughts, feelings, intuitions as to what the heck is really going on. 218 00:17:36,088 --> 00:17:39,251 Matter is not what we have long thought it to be. 219 00:17:39,358 --> 00:17:45,058 Uh-- To the scientists, matter has always been thought of as sort of the ultimate... 220 00:17:45,164 --> 00:17:48,565 in that which is static and predictable. 221 00:17:48,668 --> 00:17:53,469 Within all the atoms and molecules, all the space within them... 222 00:17:53,573 --> 00:17:58,101 the particles take up an insignificant amount of the-- 223 00:17:58,210 --> 00:18:01,441 of the volume of an atom or molecule, the fundamental particles. 224 00:18:01,547 --> 00:18:03,447 The rest of it is vacuum. 225 00:18:03,549 --> 00:18:07,144 What seems to happen is that particles appear and disappear all the time. 226 00:18:07,253 --> 00:18:10,279 So where do they go when they're not here? 227 00:18:10,389 --> 00:18:13,358 Now, that question is tricky. 228 00:18:13,459 --> 00:18:16,826 I'm gonna give you two answers-- Answer number one: 229 00:18:16,929 --> 00:18:20,057 They go into an alternative universe... 230 00:18:20,166 --> 00:18:23,363 where the people in that universe are asking the same question... 231 00:18:23,469 --> 00:18:26,336 about those particles when they come into our universe. 232 00:18:26,439 --> 00:18:28,873 They say, ''Where do they go?'' 233 00:18:30,776 --> 00:18:35,475 There's a great mystery called the mystery of the direction of time. 234 00:18:35,581 --> 00:18:39,073 There's a certain sense in which the fundamental laws of physics that we have... 235 00:18:39,185 --> 00:18:43,246 don't make any interesting distinctions, say, between past and future. 236 00:18:43,356 --> 00:18:49,056 Um, for example, it's a puzzle from the standpoint of the fundamental laws of physics... 237 00:18:49,161 --> 00:18:51,891 why we should be able to... 238 00:18:51,998 --> 00:18:55,195 um, remember the past, um... 239 00:18:55,301 --> 00:18:59,362 and not have the same kind of epistemic access to the future. 240 00:18:59,472 --> 00:19:02,441 It's a puzzle from the standpoint of these laws... 241 00:19:02,541 --> 00:19:05,772 why we should think something like by acting now... 242 00:19:05,878 --> 00:19:09,041 we can affect the future but not the past. 243 00:19:09,148 --> 00:19:14,017 These things-- that we have a different kind of epistemic access to the past and future... 244 00:19:14,120 --> 00:19:17,055 that we have a different kind of control by acting now... 245 00:19:17,156 --> 00:19:19,420 over the future than we do over the past... 246 00:19:19,525 --> 00:19:24,485 these things are so fundamental to the way we experience the world... 247 00:19:24,597 --> 00:19:27,430 that, um-- um-- 248 00:19:27,533 --> 00:19:30,502 that it seems to me, not to be curious about them is to be... 249 00:19:30,603 --> 00:19:32,662 you know, three-quarters of the way to being dead. 250 00:19:42,682 --> 00:19:45,845 Wanna shoot some hoops? 251 00:19:49,889 --> 00:19:52,221 Now, you don't have to be like that. 252 00:19:52,324 --> 00:19:54,349 Come on and play. 253 00:19:54,460 --> 00:19:57,258 Look. He likes you. 254 00:19:57,363 --> 00:19:59,558 Don't you have time for a little one-on-one? 255 00:20:03,235 --> 00:20:05,362 How long has it been since you played? 256 00:20:06,906 --> 00:20:10,034 Come on. You got the ball. Take a shot. 257 00:20:11,577 --> 00:20:14,546 No, no, no, milady. Not from there. It's out-of-bounds. 258 00:20:14,647 --> 00:20:18,549 You gotta be on the court to be in play. 259 00:20:29,995 --> 00:20:34,728 Welcome to Duke Reginald's Court of Unending Possibilities. 260 00:21:03,295 --> 00:21:05,957 - Court rules-- Gotta sink the last one. 261 00:21:06,065 --> 00:21:08,829 - That hurt. - It never touched you. 262 00:21:08,934 --> 00:21:12,700 - Right. - And it's not solid. 263 00:21:12,805 --> 00:21:15,797 This ball is mostly empty. 264 00:21:15,908 --> 00:21:17,773 In fact, the universe is mostly empty. 265 00:21:23,516 --> 00:21:28,146 We like to think of space as empty and matter as solid. 266 00:21:28,254 --> 00:21:31,985 But in fact, there is essentially nothing to matter whatsoever. 267 00:21:32,091 --> 00:21:34,218 It's completely insubstantial. 268 00:21:36,162 --> 00:21:38,153 Take a look at an atom. 269 00:21:38,264 --> 00:21:41,756 We think of it as a kind ofhard ball. 270 00:21:41,867 --> 00:21:43,767 Then we say, ''Oh, well, not really. 271 00:21:43,869 --> 00:21:48,806 ''It's this little tiny point of really dense matter right at the center... 272 00:21:48,908 --> 00:21:52,366 ''surrounded by a kind of fluffy probability cloud of electrons... 273 00:21:52,478 --> 00:21:55,106 popping in and out of existence. '' 274 00:21:56,549 --> 00:21:58,449 But then it turns out that that's not even right. 275 00:21:58,551 --> 00:22:01,543 Even the nucleus, which we think of as so dense... 276 00:22:01,654 --> 00:22:07,251 pops in and out of existence just as readily as the electrons do. 277 00:22:07,359 --> 00:22:11,659 The most solid thing you can say about all this insubstantial matter... 278 00:22:11,764 --> 00:22:13,698 is that it's more like a thought-- 279 00:22:13,799 --> 00:22:17,701 it's like a concentrated bit of information. 280 00:22:19,305 --> 00:22:22,763 What makes up things are not more things... 281 00:22:22,875 --> 00:22:27,710 but what makes up things are ideas, concepts, information. 282 00:22:30,249 --> 00:22:33,878 And like I said, it never touches. 283 00:22:41,360 --> 00:22:43,260 Those electrons build up a charge... 284 00:22:43,362 --> 00:22:46,354 and push the other electrons away before they touch. 285 00:22:49,401 --> 00:22:52,529 So nobody touches nothin'. 286 00:22:52,638 --> 00:22:56,165 Come on. Put your stuff down. Nobody's gonna take it. 287 00:22:56,275 --> 00:22:58,743 Like I said, this is my court. It's no problem. 288 00:23:14,727 --> 00:23:17,662 - How long has it been? - I'll be late. 289 00:23:17,763 --> 00:23:22,257 It's only in conscious experience that it seems that we move forward in time. 290 00:23:22,368 --> 00:23:24,768 In quantum theory, you can also go backwards in time. 291 00:23:24,870 --> 00:23:28,067 You can always go back in time. 292 00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:38,810 What's the matter? Remember, it's empty. 293 00:23:38,918 --> 00:23:41,785 How do you know this shit? 294 00:23:41,887 --> 00:23:47,621 I read Dr. Quantum comics. Everybody thinks it's just kid stuff, but I know it's real. 295 00:23:47,726 --> 00:23:50,354 That's how I do my magic on the court. 296 00:23:50,462 --> 00:23:54,330 Yeah, I always choose the wonder boy first. 297 00:23:54,433 --> 00:23:57,664 - He's got the weirding way. - Well, Dr. Quantum says everybody's got it. 298 00:23:57,770 --> 00:23:59,965 Everybody's doing it. 299 00:24:00,072 --> 00:24:03,473 Doing it constantly, each and every time you look. 300 00:24:03,575 --> 00:24:05,805 When you ain't lookin', it's like a wave. 301 00:24:05,911 --> 00:24:08,277 When you are lookin', it's like a particle. 302 00:24:08,380 --> 00:24:10,780 When you are not looking, there are waves of possibility. 303 00:24:10,883 --> 00:24:14,250 - When you are looking, there are particles of experience. 304 00:24:14,353 --> 00:24:17,322 Aparticle, which we think of as a solid thing... 305 00:24:17,423 --> 00:24:20,119 really exists in a so-called ''superposition, '' 306 00:24:20,225 --> 00:24:23,661 a spread-out wave of possible locations... 307 00:24:23,762 --> 00:24:25,696 and it's in all of those at once. 308 00:24:25,798 --> 00:24:27,891 The instance you check on it... 309 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:31,492 it snaps intojust one of those possible positions. 310 00:24:31,603 --> 00:24:33,969 Quantum superposition implies that... 311 00:24:34,073 --> 00:24:39,204 a particle can be in two or more places or states simultaneously. 312 00:24:39,311 --> 00:24:44,408 And this is a very bizarre concept, and one of the hallmarks of the quantum world. 313 00:24:44,516 --> 00:24:47,314 Superheroes use superposition... 314 00:24:47,419 --> 00:24:51,321 with the world being potential strips of reality until we choose. 315 00:24:51,423 --> 00:24:53,721 Heroes choose what they want-- 316 00:24:53,826 --> 00:24:57,762 being in many places at once, experiencing many possibilities all at once... 317 00:24:57,863 --> 00:25:00,491 and then collapsing on the one. 318 00:25:02,968 --> 00:25:06,927 The question is, how far down the rabbit hole do you wanna go? 319 00:25:45,677 --> 00:25:48,578 Nice shot. 320 00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:49,381 How can a system or an object be in two or more states at the same time? 321 00:25:49,381 --> 00:25:53,374 How can a system or an object be in two or more states at the same time? 322 00:25:53,485 --> 00:25:57,046 It's very easy-- Instead of thinking of things as things. 323 00:25:57,156 --> 00:26:02,594 We all have a habit of thinking that everything around us is already a thing... 324 00:26:02,694 --> 00:26:07,427 existing without my input, without my choice. 325 00:26:07,533 --> 00:26:09,433 You have to banish that kind of thinking. 326 00:26:09,535 --> 00:26:11,560 Instead, you really have to recognize... 327 00:26:11,670 --> 00:26:14,230 that even the material world around us-- 328 00:26:14,339 --> 00:26:19,709 the chairs, the tables, the rooms, the carpet-- camera included-- 329 00:26:19,812 --> 00:26:24,681 all of these are nothing but possible movements of consciousness. 330 00:26:24,783 --> 00:26:28,219 And I'm choosing moment to moment out of those movements... 331 00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:32,916 to bring my actual experience into manifestation. 332 00:26:33,025 --> 00:26:35,858 This is the only radical thinking that you need to do. 333 00:26:35,961 --> 00:26:38,259 But it is so radical-- It's so difficult... 334 00:26:38,363 --> 00:26:41,332 because our tendency is that the world is already out there... 335 00:26:41,433 --> 00:26:44,925 independent of my experience. 336 00:26:45,037 --> 00:26:48,473 It is not. Quantum physics has been so clear about it. 337 00:26:48,574 --> 00:26:50,940 Heisenberg himself, codiscoverer of quantum physics... 338 00:26:51,043 --> 00:26:55,639 said atoms are not things, they're only tendencies. 339 00:26:55,747 --> 00:26:58,841 So, instead of thinking of things... 340 00:26:58,951 --> 00:27:01,511 you have to think of possibilities. 341 00:27:01,620 --> 00:27:04,111 They're all possibilities of consciousness. 342 00:27:04,223 --> 00:27:08,216 You now can see in numerous labs around the United States... 343 00:27:08,327 --> 00:27:12,855 objects that are large enough to be seen by the naked eye... 344 00:27:12,965 --> 00:27:15,832 and they are in two places simultaneously. 345 00:27:15,934 --> 00:27:19,370 - You can actually take a photograph of that. 346 00:27:19,471 --> 00:27:24,499 Now, I suppose if you showed a photograph, they'd say, ''Oh. Great. 347 00:27:24,610 --> 00:27:28,171 ''Here's this nice blob of colored light, and I see there's... 348 00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:31,511 ''a bit of it over here and another bit-- So you've got a picture of two dots. 349 00:27:31,617 --> 00:27:33,517 What's the big deal?'' 350 00:27:33,619 --> 00:27:36,281 You say, ''Look right in the chamber. You can see it right there.'' 351 00:27:36,388 --> 00:27:39,118 ''I see two things there.'' ''No, no. That's not two things-- 352 00:27:39,224 --> 00:27:43,024 That's one thing. It's the same thing in two places.'' 353 00:27:44,396 --> 00:27:48,162 I'm not sure that people's jaw would drop about it... 354 00:27:48,267 --> 00:27:50,827 because I think-- 355 00:27:50,936 --> 00:27:52,904 I don't think people really believe it. 356 00:27:53,005 --> 00:27:57,271 And I don't mean that people say, ''Oh, you're lying,'' or ''Oh, the scientists are confused.'' 357 00:27:57,376 --> 00:28:02,609 I-I think it is so mysterious that you can't even understand how amazing it is. 358 00:28:02,714 --> 00:28:05,877 And then, furthermore, you've seen Star Trek and whatnot. 359 00:28:05,984 --> 00:28:08,646 ''Beam me up, Scotty.'' So it all seems sort of... 360 00:28:08,754 --> 00:28:11,348 ''Oh, well, what does that really mean?'' 361 00:28:11,456 --> 00:28:14,220 But you've gotta really stop and think about what that means-- 362 00:28:14,326 --> 00:28:17,386 That it's the same object and it's in two places at once. 363 00:28:17,496 --> 00:28:20,954 When people tinker in the lab, and they get angry about things, and they have lunch... 364 00:28:21,066 --> 00:28:23,091 and they go home and they lead their lives... 365 00:28:23,202 --> 00:28:25,796 just as though nothing utterly astounding is happening... 366 00:28:25,904 --> 00:28:27,872 because that's how you have to go about it-- 367 00:28:27,973 --> 00:28:32,171 And yet, there's this completely amazing magic... 368 00:28:32,277 --> 00:28:36,043 sitting right in front of your eyes. 369 00:28:36,148 --> 00:28:40,585 Quantum physics calculates only possibilities... 370 00:28:40,686 --> 00:28:44,782 but if we accept this, then the question immediately comes... 371 00:28:44,890 --> 00:28:47,950 who, what, chooses among these possibilities... 372 00:28:48,060 --> 00:28:50,995 to bring the actual event of experience? 373 00:28:51,096 --> 00:28:56,500 So we directly, immediately see that consciousness must be involved. 374 00:28:56,602 --> 00:29:00,299 The observer cannot be ignored. 375 00:29:03,208 --> 00:29:07,144 We know what an observer does from a point of view of quantum physics... 376 00:29:07,246 --> 00:29:12,047 but we don't know who or what the observer actually is. 377 00:29:12,150 --> 00:29:15,244 Doesn't mean we haven't tried to find an answer. We've looked. 378 00:29:15,354 --> 00:29:19,654 We've gone inside of your head. We've gone into every orifice you have... 379 00:29:19,758 --> 00:29:21,658 to find something called an observer. 380 00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:24,320 And there's nobody home. There's nobody in the brain. 381 00:29:24,429 --> 00:29:26,522 There's nobody in the cortical regions of the brain. 382 00:29:26,632 --> 00:29:29,601 There's nobody in the subcortical regions or the limbic regions of the brain. 383 00:29:29,701 --> 00:29:32,169 There's nobody there called an observer. 384 00:29:32,271 --> 00:29:36,970 And yet, we all have this experience of being something called an observer... 385 00:29:37,075 --> 00:29:38,975 observing the world out there. 386 00:29:39,077 --> 00:29:41,375 Is this the observer... 387 00:29:41,480 --> 00:29:45,610 and which is so intricate to understanding... 388 00:29:45,717 --> 00:29:48,015 the wacky, weird world... 389 00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:53,649 of quantum particles and how they react? 390 00:29:53,759 --> 00:29:58,162 Is this then the observer? 391 00:30:01,333 --> 00:30:04,928 In my modeling, the observer is the spirit... 392 00:30:05,037 --> 00:30:08,336 inside the four-layer biobodysuit. 393 00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:13,241 And so, it's like the ghost in the machine. 394 00:30:13,345 --> 00:30:18,408 It is the consciousness that's driving the vehicle... 395 00:30:18,517 --> 00:30:20,849 and it is observing the surround. 396 00:30:20,952 --> 00:30:26,891 The four layers of the biobodysuit have all kinds of sensory systems... 397 00:30:26,992 --> 00:30:29,688 to pick up signatures from the surround. 398 00:30:40,972 --> 00:30:42,997 Aw. Good boy. 399 00:31:17,509 --> 00:31:20,376 Where the hell are you? I've got a studio full of people... 400 00:31:20,479 --> 00:31:22,413 but, oh, my God.! 401 00:31:22,514 --> 00:31:25,574 There's no photographer. 402 00:31:25,684 --> 00:31:28,118 Where, oh, where can she be? 403 00:31:28,220 --> 00:31:32,623 Aliens? Loch Ness monster? 404 00:31:32,724 --> 00:31:35,557 Or a hot date? 405 00:31:35,660 --> 00:31:38,458 In Washington, D.C., the so-called murder capital of the world... 406 00:31:38,563 --> 00:31:41,555 there was a big experiment in the summer of 1 993... 407 00:31:41,666 --> 00:31:44,999 where 4,000 volunteers came from a hundred countries... 408 00:31:45,103 --> 00:31:49,164 to collectively meditate for long periods of time throughout the day. 409 00:31:49,274 --> 00:31:52,903 It was predicted in advance that with such a sized group... 410 00:31:53,011 --> 00:31:55,707 you would have a 25% drop in violent crime... 411 00:31:55,814 --> 00:31:58,908 as defined by the F.B.I. in Washington that summer. 412 00:31:59,017 --> 00:32:02,919 Well, the chief of police went on television saying that... 413 00:32:03,021 --> 00:32:05,615 ''Look. It's gonna take two feet of snow... 414 00:32:05,724 --> 00:32:09,524 to reduce crime by 25% in Washington, D.C. this summer.'' 415 00:32:09,628 --> 00:32:14,258 But by the end, the police department became a collaborator and author of this study... 416 00:32:14,366 --> 00:32:19,895 because the results in fact showed a 25% drop in violent crime in Washington, D.C.... 417 00:32:20,005 --> 00:32:23,497 which we could predict on the basis of 48 previous studies... 418 00:32:23,608 --> 00:32:26,133 that had already been done on a smaller scale. 419 00:32:26,244 --> 00:32:29,338 This leads naturally to wonder do people-- 420 00:32:29,448 --> 00:32:32,781 are people affecting the world of reality that they see? 421 00:32:32,884 --> 00:32:34,784 You betcha they are. 422 00:32:34,886 --> 00:32:38,287 Every single one of us affects the reality that we see... 423 00:32:38,390 --> 00:32:42,190 even if we try to hide from that and play victim. 424 00:32:42,294 --> 00:32:44,319 We all are doin' it. 425 00:32:46,765 --> 00:32:50,667 Just tell me where you are. 426 00:32:50,769 --> 00:32:52,669 Good. But hurry, will ya, please? 427 00:32:52,771 --> 00:32:56,502 - Because these models are giving me a headache. - Ten minutes! 428 00:33:33,512 --> 00:33:39,041 Our subway exhibit comes to us from Japan and Mr. Masaru Emoto. 429 00:33:39,150 --> 00:33:41,948 Mr. Emoto became terribly interested... 430 00:33:42,053 --> 00:33:46,752 in the molecular structure of water and what affects it. 431 00:33:46,858 --> 00:33:51,522 Now, water is the most receptive of the four elements. 432 00:33:51,630 --> 00:33:56,260 Mr. Emoto thought perhaps it would respond to nonphysical events. 433 00:33:56,368 --> 00:34:00,702 So he set up a series of studies, applied mental stimuli... 434 00:34:00,805 --> 00:34:04,138 and photographed it with a dark field microscope. 435 00:34:04,242 --> 00:34:10,112 This first picture is a picture of water from the Fujiwara Dam. 436 00:34:11,850 --> 00:34:15,286 And this picture is the same water... 437 00:34:15,387 --> 00:34:19,448 after receiving a blessing from a Zen Buddhist monk. 438 00:34:23,695 --> 00:34:26,255 Now in this next series of pictures... 439 00:34:26,364 --> 00:34:31,461 Mr. Emoto printed out words, taped them to bottles of distilled water... 440 00:34:31,570 --> 00:34:33,902 and left them out overnight. 441 00:34:34,005 --> 00:34:38,965 This first photograph is the picture of the pure distilled water-- 442 00:34:39,077 --> 00:34:40,977 just the essence of itself. 443 00:34:41,079 --> 00:34:43,980 These subsequent photographs, as you can see, are each different. 444 00:34:44,082 --> 00:34:46,346 This is the ''Chi of Love.'' 445 00:34:48,853 --> 00:34:52,653 And we move along here to ''Thank You. '' 446 00:34:52,757 --> 00:34:56,318 And you can see where he taped that, uh, to this bottle here. 447 00:34:56,428 --> 00:34:59,090 But if you read Japanese, you already knew that. 448 00:35:02,334 --> 00:35:06,293 Now, Mr. Emoto speaks of the thought or intent... 449 00:35:06,404 --> 00:35:09,202 being the driving force in all of this. 450 00:35:09,307 --> 00:35:13,505 The science of how that actually affects the molecules is unknown... 451 00:35:13,612 --> 00:35:17,446 except to the water molecules, of course. 452 00:35:17,549 --> 00:35:20,450 And it's really fascinating when you keep in mind... 453 00:35:20,552 --> 00:35:23,521 that 90% of our bodies are water. 454 00:35:34,633 --> 00:35:37,067 Makes you wonder, doesn't it? 455 00:35:37,168 --> 00:35:40,262 If thoughts can do that to water... 456 00:35:40,372 --> 00:35:43,000 imagine what our thoughts can do to us. 457 00:35:59,958 --> 00:36:03,086 Absolutely thought alone can completely change the body. 458 00:36:03,194 --> 00:36:08,257 Most people don't affect reality in a consistent, substantial way... 459 00:36:08,366 --> 00:36:11,529 because they don't believe they can. 460 00:36:11,636 --> 00:36:14,605 They write an intention... 461 00:36:14,706 --> 00:36:17,766 and then they erase it, because they think that's silly-- 462 00:36:17,876 --> 00:36:21,937 I mean-- I can't do that. And then they write it again, and then they erase it. 463 00:36:22,047 --> 00:36:24,675 So time average, it's a very small effect. 464 00:36:24,783 --> 00:36:29,948 And it really comes down to the fact that they believe they can't do it. 465 00:36:30,055 --> 00:36:33,183 If you accept with every rudiment of your being... 466 00:36:33,291 --> 00:36:35,657 that you will walk on water, will it happen? 467 00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:37,660 Yes, it will. 468 00:36:37,762 --> 00:36:41,323 But you know, it's, uh-- it's like positive thinking. 469 00:36:41,433 --> 00:36:44,231 It's a wonderful idea, positive thinking... 470 00:36:44,335 --> 00:36:50,069 but what it usually means is that I have a little smear of positive thinking... 471 00:36:50,175 --> 00:36:53,906 covering a whole mass of negative thinking. 472 00:36:54,012 --> 00:36:56,537 So thinking positive is not really thinking positive. 473 00:36:56,648 --> 00:37:00,379 It's just disguising the negative thinking that we have. 474 00:37:00,485 --> 00:37:05,354 When we think of things, then we make the reality more concrete than it is... 475 00:37:05,457 --> 00:37:07,550 and that's why we become stuck. 476 00:37:07,659 --> 00:37:09,650 We become stuck in the sameness of reality. 477 00:37:09,761 --> 00:37:14,221 Because if reality is concrete, obviously, I am insignificant. I cannot really change it. 478 00:37:14,332 --> 00:37:19,964 But if reality is my possibility-- possibility of consciousness itself-- 479 00:37:20,071 --> 00:37:23,563 then immediately comes the question of how can I change it? 480 00:37:23,675 --> 00:37:26,007 How can I make it better? How can I make it happier? 481 00:37:26,111 --> 00:37:29,979 You see how we are extending the image of ourselves? 482 00:37:30,081 --> 00:37:33,244 In the old thinking, I cannot change anything... 483 00:37:33,351 --> 00:37:36,616 because I don't have any role at all in reality. 484 00:37:36,721 --> 00:37:40,885 Reality is already there. It's material objects moving in their own way... 485 00:37:40,992 --> 00:37:43,119 from deterministic laws... 486 00:37:43,228 --> 00:37:47,824 and mathematics determines what they will do in a given situation. 487 00:37:47,932 --> 00:37:51,663 I, the experiencer, have no role at all. 488 00:37:51,770 --> 00:37:55,297 In the new view, yes, mathematics can give us something. 489 00:37:55,406 --> 00:38:01,003 It gives us the possibilities that all these movements can assume. 490 00:38:01,112 --> 00:38:06,812 But it cannot give us the actual experience that I'll be having in my consciousness. 491 00:38:06,918 --> 00:38:08,977 I choose that experience. 492 00:38:09,087 --> 00:38:13,751 And therefore, literally, I create my own reality. 493 00:38:13,858 --> 00:38:18,295 It may sound like a tremendous, bombastic claim by some New Agey... 494 00:38:18,396 --> 00:38:21,263 without any understanding of physics whatsoever... 495 00:38:21,366 --> 00:38:23,800 but really quantum physics is telling us that. 496 00:38:38,883 --> 00:38:41,283 Hey! How was the shoot? 497 00:38:41,386 --> 00:38:43,911 Sucked. 498 00:38:48,126 --> 00:38:52,586 Your boss called. He's worried about you. 499 00:39:03,775 --> 00:39:07,108 Amanda, I wanna thank you for letting me stay here. 500 00:39:08,680 --> 00:39:11,410 I know I'm a bit much sometimes... 501 00:39:11,516 --> 00:39:16,078 and that it's been tough after Bob and all. 502 00:39:16,187 --> 00:39:19,088 And, um,you'vejust been so wonderful. 503 00:39:19,190 --> 00:39:21,283 I mean, I make a mess and-- 504 00:39:21,392 --> 00:39:24,793 Well, I clean up afterwards, but it's not really your style. 505 00:39:26,264 --> 00:39:28,732 Sometimes I think you make me sane. 506 00:39:28,833 --> 00:39:31,427 Me? 507 00:39:31,536 --> 00:39:34,835 The day I make someone sane, they're in trouble. 508 00:39:36,741 --> 00:39:40,108 Anyway, um... 509 00:39:40,211 --> 00:39:44,204 I made you something as a thank-you gift. 510 00:39:51,923 --> 00:39:54,323 Open it. 511 00:40:06,905 --> 00:40:09,703 I went through your pictures and picked my favorite ones. 512 00:40:09,807 --> 00:40:13,641 And it took me forever because there are so many good ones. 513 00:40:17,382 --> 00:40:20,078 This-- 514 00:40:20,184 --> 00:40:24,587 That's for all the wonderful photos you will be taking. 515 00:40:36,801 --> 00:40:40,032 - Oh! - I've had a strange day. 516 00:40:42,640 --> 00:40:44,540 Thank you. 517 00:41:01,759 --> 00:41:04,023 What is my life? Why is your life? 518 00:41:04,128 --> 00:41:06,221 What is the purpose oflife? 519 00:41:06,331 --> 00:41:08,299 Where am I going? What happens when I die? 520 00:41:08,399 --> 00:41:12,096 - Why is there anything at all? - What is reality? 521 00:41:12,203 --> 00:41:14,569 It makes you wonder, doesn't it? 522 00:41:16,941 --> 00:41:20,035 If thoughts can do that to water... 523 00:41:20,144 --> 00:41:22,942 imagine what our thoughts can do to us. 524 00:41:25,116 --> 00:41:29,246 These-- - Reality comes down to experiences. 525 00:41:29,354 --> 00:41:33,347 - Is this-- - Successful-- 526 00:41:33,458 --> 00:41:36,120 Have you ever thought about what thoughts are made of?. 527 00:41:36,227 --> 00:41:38,718 Is there a substance of thought? 528 00:41:40,298 --> 00:41:42,960 I guess itjust depends on what you think is real. 529 00:41:43,067 --> 00:41:46,559 The world being possible timelines of reality... 530 00:41:48,206 --> 00:41:50,299 until we choose. 531 00:41:50,408 --> 00:41:54,344 Are all realities in the quantum field existing simultaneously? 532 00:41:54,445 --> 00:41:57,539 - My definition of an addiction is something-- 533 00:41:57,648 --> 00:42:01,516 - Something that you can't stop. - There are different worlds in which we live. 534 00:42:01,619 --> 00:42:06,022 There's the macroscopic world that we see. There's the world of our cells. 535 00:42:06,124 --> 00:42:09,321 There's the world of our atoms. There's the world of our nuclei. 536 00:42:09,427 --> 00:42:12,055 These are each totally different worlds. 537 00:42:12,163 --> 00:42:14,461 They have their own language. They have their own mathematics. 538 00:42:14,565 --> 00:42:17,693 They're notjust smaller-- Each is totally different. 539 00:42:17,802 --> 00:42:21,203 But they're complementary, because I am my atoms... 540 00:42:21,305 --> 00:42:23,205 but I am also my cells. 541 00:42:23,307 --> 00:42:25,207 I'm also my macroscopic physiology. 542 00:42:25,309 --> 00:42:28,801 It's all true. They're just different levels of truth. 543 00:42:28,913 --> 00:42:32,872 The deepest level of truth uncovered by science and by philosophy... 544 00:42:32,984 --> 00:42:35,646 is the fundamental truth of unity. 545 00:42:35,753 --> 00:42:39,120 At that deepest subnuclear level of our reality... 546 00:42:39,223 --> 00:42:41,589 you and I are literally one-- 547 00:42:58,443 --> 00:43:01,435 - I wake up in the morning... 548 00:43:01,546 --> 00:43:05,243 and I consciously create my day the way I want it to happen. 549 00:43:05,349 --> 00:43:08,477 Now, sometimes... 550 00:43:08,586 --> 00:43:13,216 because my mind is examining all the things that I need to get done... 551 00:43:13,324 --> 00:43:16,657 it takes me a little bit to settle down and get to the point... 552 00:43:16,761 --> 00:43:19,924 of where I am actually intentionally creating my day. 553 00:43:20,031 --> 00:43:23,228 But here's the thing. When I create my day... 554 00:43:23,334 --> 00:43:27,998 and out of nowhere little things happen... 555 00:43:28,106 --> 00:43:32,202 that are so unexplainable... 556 00:43:32,310 --> 00:43:36,508 I know that they are the process or the result of my creation. 557 00:43:36,614 --> 00:43:41,244 And the more I do that, the more I build a neural net in my brain... 558 00:43:41,352 --> 00:43:44,116 that I accept that that's possible... 559 00:43:44,222 --> 00:43:48,056 it gives me the power and the incentive to do it the next day. 560 00:43:52,530 --> 00:43:57,365 In addiction, we have a supreme, beautiful opportunity... 561 00:43:57,468 --> 00:43:59,698 to decipher the difference between... 562 00:43:59,804 --> 00:44:04,571 our intangibility of our nobleness of character... 563 00:44:04,675 --> 00:44:08,509 and the day-to-day business ofhow that character is revealed... 564 00:44:08,613 --> 00:44:12,674 in a three-dimensional world through our bodies. 565 00:44:31,135 --> 00:44:34,832 - I hate weddings. - And what we will learn... 566 00:44:34,939 --> 00:44:36,839 is that addiction is... 567 00:44:36,941 --> 00:44:41,275 the feeling of a chemical rush... 568 00:44:41,379 --> 00:44:45,110 that is cascaded through the bodies... 569 00:44:45,216 --> 00:44:49,710 through a whole assortment of glands and ductless glands... 570 00:44:49,820 --> 00:44:52,618 and through the spinal fluid-- 571 00:44:52,723 --> 00:44:56,090 a feeling that some would call... 572 00:44:56,194 --> 00:44:58,822 a sexual fantasy. 573 00:44:58,930 --> 00:45:04,095 It only takes one sexual fantasy for a man to have a hard-on. 574 00:45:04,202 --> 00:45:06,864 In other words, it only takes one thought here... 575 00:45:06,971 --> 00:45:10,407 for a man to have an erection in his member. 576 00:45:10,508 --> 00:45:14,069 And yet, there was nothing outside of him that gave him that. 577 00:45:14,178 --> 00:45:17,238 It was what was within him that gave him that. 578 00:45:21,752 --> 00:45:24,277 Hey, Amanda. I-I didn't know you were there. 579 00:45:25,523 --> 00:45:28,117 Guilty. 580 00:45:28,226 --> 00:45:30,126 A wedding? 581 00:45:30,228 --> 00:45:32,458 Come on, Frank! 582 00:45:32,563 --> 00:45:35,555 This is a good assignment, if you'd see it that way. 583 00:45:35,666 --> 00:45:37,566 What's to see? 584 00:45:37,668 --> 00:45:40,228 ''I do.'' They did. 585 00:45:40,338 --> 00:45:43,171 Aw, God, Amanda. I mean, y-you live in your past... 586 00:45:43,274 --> 00:45:46,573 and everything with you is about ''what happened.'' 587 00:45:46,677 --> 00:45:51,011 You hate churches. You hate weddings. You hate guys. 588 00:45:53,618 --> 00:45:55,518 Now I want you to go scope it out. 589 00:45:56,621 --> 00:45:59,021 Don't need to. I got married there. 590 00:45:59,123 --> 00:46:02,650 I know. I took the pictures, remember? 591 00:46:02,760 --> 00:46:05,593 You got too many memories clouding your vision. 592 00:46:05,696 --> 00:46:07,596 Oh, Amanda, Amanda, Amanda. 593 00:46:07,698 --> 00:46:10,792 You know you're the best technical photographer I have. 594 00:46:10,901 --> 00:46:14,428 And I wanna have some great pictures. 595 00:46:14,538 --> 00:46:16,472 You know what? You need a good Polish wedding. 596 00:46:16,574 --> 00:46:19,668 - And watch out for those good Catholic boys, huh? - You mean the priests? 597 00:46:19,777 --> 00:46:23,440 Come on. Get outta here. - Bye. 598 00:46:25,283 --> 00:46:27,183 When I was younger, um... 599 00:46:27,285 --> 00:46:29,845 I had lots of ideas about what God was. 600 00:46:29,954 --> 00:46:32,650 And now I realize I'm not conscious enough... 601 00:46:32,757 --> 00:46:36,853 to truly understand what that concept means. 602 00:46:41,132 --> 00:46:44,829 That I am at one with the great being that made me and brought me here... 603 00:46:44,935 --> 00:46:48,530 and that formed the galaxies and the universes, et cetera-- 604 00:46:48,639 --> 00:46:50,607 how did that get taken out of religion? 605 00:46:50,708 --> 00:46:52,699 It was not hard. 606 00:47:07,291 --> 00:47:12,661 Most of the problems that religion and various philosophical movements... 607 00:47:12,763 --> 00:47:15,357 down through the centuries have produced... 608 00:47:15,466 --> 00:47:19,266 have been errors because that's where they're started-- 609 00:47:19,370 --> 00:47:22,430 That God is a distinct separate being from us... 610 00:47:22,540 --> 00:47:26,909 to whom I must offer worship, whom I must cultivate... 611 00:47:27,011 --> 00:47:32,950 humor, please and hope to attain a reward from at the very end of my life. 612 00:47:33,050 --> 00:47:35,746 That is not what God is. 613 00:47:35,853 --> 00:47:38,253 That is a blasphemy. 614 00:47:38,356 --> 00:47:40,256 God is such a broad thing... 615 00:47:40,358 --> 00:47:43,384 um, some parts of which-- most of the parts of which... 616 00:47:43,494 --> 00:47:46,520 that are associated with organized religion... 617 00:47:46,630 --> 00:47:48,723 is something that I sort of recoil at. 618 00:47:48,833 --> 00:47:52,394 It's something I think has done a lot ofharm to the world, done harm to women... 619 00:47:52,503 --> 00:47:57,634 done harm to oppressed peoples, done harm to the World Trade Center. 620 00:47:57,742 --> 00:47:59,835 And yet, and the same point... 621 00:47:59,944 --> 00:48:04,574 we have the epitome of a great science. 622 00:48:04,682 --> 00:48:08,209 The closest science has ever come... 623 00:48:08,319 --> 00:48:11,584 to explaining Jesus' interpretation that... 624 00:48:11,689 --> 00:48:15,284 the mustard seed was larger than the kingdom ofheaven... 625 00:48:15,393 --> 00:48:21,298 and the only science that can fit into that analogy is quantum physics. 626 00:48:28,572 --> 00:48:33,908 Now, we have-- 627 00:48:34,011 --> 00:48:37,037 we have great technology... 628 00:48:37,148 --> 00:48:39,708 from antigravity magnets... 629 00:48:39,817 --> 00:48:43,378 and magnetic fields-- zero-point energy-- 630 00:48:43,487 --> 00:48:47,321 We have all that, and we still have this ugly, superstitious... 631 00:48:47,425 --> 00:48:49,450 backwater concept of God. 632 00:49:06,544 --> 00:49:09,513 People fall into line very readily when they're threatened... 633 00:49:09,613 --> 00:49:13,208 by these cosmic sentences of everlasting punishment. 634 00:49:13,317 --> 00:49:15,342 But this is not how God is. 635 00:49:15,453 --> 00:49:20,550 And once you start to question the traditional images, caricatures of God... 636 00:49:20,658 --> 00:49:23,388 people feel you are an agnostic or an atheist... 637 00:49:23,494 --> 00:49:28,124 or a subverter of the social order. 638 00:49:28,232 --> 00:49:32,862 God must be greater than the greatest of human weaknesses... 639 00:49:32,970 --> 00:49:34,870 and indeed... 640 00:49:34,972 --> 00:49:37,406 the greatness of human skill. 641 00:49:37,508 --> 00:49:42,411 That God must even transcend our most remarkable... 642 00:49:42,513 --> 00:49:45,539 to emulate nature in its absolute splendor. 643 00:49:47,785 --> 00:49:53,052 How can any man or woman sin against such a greatness of mind? 644 00:49:53,157 --> 00:49:58,254 How can any one little carbon unit... 645 00:49:58,362 --> 00:50:03,197 on Earth in the backwaters of... 646 00:50:03,300 --> 00:50:07,100 indeed, the Milky Way, the boondocks... 647 00:50:07,204 --> 00:50:10,537 betray God Almighty? 648 00:50:10,641 --> 00:50:12,609 That is impossible. 649 00:50:12,710 --> 00:50:16,407 The height of arrogance is the height of control... 650 00:50:16,514 --> 00:50:19,210 of those who create God in their own image. 651 00:50:31,729 --> 00:50:33,788 - I now present to you... 652 00:50:33,898 --> 00:50:38,562 - Mr. and Mrs. Richard ''Buck'' Filipowski. 653 00:51:01,258 --> 00:51:04,455 Brain, when it fires its thoughts... 654 00:51:04,562 --> 00:51:09,499 is likened unto the landscape of a thundercloud. 655 00:51:09,600 --> 00:51:12,364 And the synaptic cleft is the sky between... 656 00:51:12,469 --> 00:51:17,964 - the storm and the Earth-- the Earth receptor sight. 657 00:51:18,075 --> 00:51:22,978 And you see this foreboding dark cloud... 658 00:51:23,080 --> 00:51:26,015 boiling in the sky... 659 00:51:26,116 --> 00:51:29,279 and you see electrical impulses moving through it... 660 00:51:29,386 --> 00:51:31,581 veins of electric light... 661 00:51:31,689 --> 00:51:35,750 and then you see it hit the ground. 662 00:51:35,859 --> 00:51:39,818 - The brain looks like a thunderstorm-- 663 00:51:39,930 --> 00:51:43,866 when it is presenting a coherent thought. 664 00:51:43,968 --> 00:51:48,200 - So no one is ever seeing the thought. 665 00:51:48,305 --> 00:51:51,103 What they do see in neurophysics... 666 00:51:51,208 --> 00:51:54,905 is that they see a storm raging... 667 00:51:55,012 --> 00:51:57,503 around different quadrants of the brain. 668 00:51:57,615 --> 00:52:02,211 - Those are areas that are mapped in the body... 669 00:52:02,319 --> 00:52:04,981 and what a person must be responding to-- 670 00:52:05,089 --> 00:52:08,650 a holographic image-- 671 00:52:08,759 --> 00:52:12,160 rage, murder, hate... 672 00:52:12,262 --> 00:52:14,730 compassion, love. 673 00:52:14,832 --> 00:52:17,460 The brain does not know the difference between... 674 00:52:17,568 --> 00:52:21,402 what it sees in its environment and what it remembers... 675 00:52:21,505 --> 00:52:25,236 because the same specific neural nets are then firing. 676 00:52:25,342 --> 00:52:29,005 The brain is made up of tiny nerve cells called ''neurons. '' 677 00:52:29,113 --> 00:52:31,377 These neurons have tiny branches that reach out... 678 00:52:31,482 --> 00:52:34,383 and connect to other neurons to form a neural net. 679 00:52:34,485 --> 00:52:38,478 Each place where they connect is incubated into a thought or a memory. 680 00:52:38,589 --> 00:52:42,719 Now, the brain builds up all its concepts by the law of associative memory. 681 00:52:42,826 --> 00:52:45,659 For example, ideas, thoughts and feelings... 682 00:52:45,763 --> 00:52:48,994 are all constructed and interconnected in this neural net... 683 00:52:49,099 --> 00:52:52,330 - and all have a possible relationship with one another. 684 00:52:52,436 --> 00:52:54,529 The concept and the feeling oflove, for instance... 685 00:52:54,638 --> 00:52:57,198 is stored in this vast neural net. 686 00:52:57,307 --> 00:53:00,765 But we build the concept oflove from many other different ideas. 687 00:53:00,878 --> 00:53:03,904 - Some people have love connected to disappointment. 688 00:53:04,014 --> 00:53:07,108 When they think about love, they experience the memory of pain... 689 00:53:07,217 --> 00:53:09,947 sorrow, anger and even rage. 690 00:53:10,054 --> 00:53:12,750 Rage may be linked to hurt, which may be linked to a person... 691 00:53:12,856 --> 00:53:16,758 which then is connected back to love. 692 00:53:16,860 --> 00:53:21,524 We build up models of how we see the world outside of us. 693 00:53:21,632 --> 00:53:26,934 And the more information that we have, the more we refine our model one way or another. 694 00:53:27,037 --> 00:53:30,598 And what we ultimately do is tell ourselves a story... 695 00:53:30,708 --> 00:53:33,302 about what the outside world is. 696 00:53:33,410 --> 00:53:39,076 Any information that we process, any information that we take in from the environment... 697 00:53:39,183 --> 00:53:43,916 is always colored by the experiences that we've had... 698 00:53:44,021 --> 00:53:48,117 and an emotional response that we're having to what we're bringing in. 699 00:53:48,225 --> 00:53:53,288 Who is in the driver's seat when we control our emotions or we respond to our emotions? 700 00:53:53,397 --> 00:53:57,629 We know physiologically that nerve cells that fire together wire together. 701 00:53:57,735 --> 00:54:02,172 If you practice something over and over, those nerve cells have a long-term relationship. 702 00:54:02,272 --> 00:54:06,606 If you get angry on a daily basis, if you get frustrated on a daily basis... 703 00:54:06,710 --> 00:54:09,076 if you suffer on a daily basis... 704 00:54:09,179 --> 00:54:13,309 if you give reason for the victimization in your life... 705 00:54:13,417 --> 00:54:17,251 you're rewiring and reintegrating that neural net on a daily basis... 706 00:54:17,354 --> 00:54:20,346 and that neural net now has a long-term relationship... 707 00:54:20,457 --> 00:54:23,517 with all those other nerve cells called an ''identity.'' 708 00:54:23,627 --> 00:54:28,690 We also know that nerve cells that don't fire together no longer wire together. 709 00:54:28,799 --> 00:54:31,359 They lose their long-term relationship... 710 00:54:31,468 --> 00:54:33,368 because every time we interrupt... 711 00:54:33,470 --> 00:54:37,099 the thought process that produces a chemical response in the body-- 712 00:54:37,207 --> 00:54:42,201 every time we interrupt it, those nerve cells that are connected to each other... 713 00:54:42,312 --> 00:54:45,873 start breaking the long-term relationship. 714 00:54:45,983 --> 00:54:49,282 When we start interrupting and observing... 715 00:54:49,386 --> 00:54:53,015 not by stimulus and response and that automatic reaction... 716 00:54:53,123 --> 00:54:56,354 but by observing the effects it takes... 717 00:54:56,460 --> 00:55:00,954 then we are no longer the body-mind conscious emotional person... 718 00:55:01,064 --> 00:55:04,625 that's responding to its environment as if it is automatic. 719 00:55:20,350 --> 00:55:23,478 Does that mean emotions are good or emotions are bad? 720 00:55:23,587 --> 00:55:27,250 No, emotions are designed so that it reinforces chemically... 721 00:55:27,357 --> 00:55:29,655 something into long-term memory. 722 00:55:29,760 --> 00:55:32,160 That's why we have them. 723 00:55:32,262 --> 00:55:36,858 All emotion is is holographically imprinted chemicals. 724 00:55:36,967 --> 00:55:40,368 The most sophisticated pharmacy in the universe is in here. 725 00:55:40,470 --> 00:55:44,065 There's a part of the brain called the hypothalamus... 726 00:55:44,174 --> 00:55:46,335 and the hypothalamus is like a little mini factory... 727 00:55:46,443 --> 00:55:50,504 and it is a place that assembles certain chemicals... 728 00:55:50,614 --> 00:55:53,879 that matches certain emotions that we experience. 729 00:55:53,984 --> 00:55:56,851 And those particular chemicals are called ''peptides. '' 730 00:55:56,954 --> 00:56:00,549 They're small-chain amino acid sequences. 731 00:56:00,657 --> 00:56:02,716 The body's basically a carbon unit... 732 00:56:02,826 --> 00:56:06,785 that makes about 20 different amino acids altogether... 733 00:56:06,897 --> 00:56:09,092 to formulate its physical structure. 734 00:56:09,199 --> 00:56:11,690 The body is a protein-producing machine. 735 00:56:11,802 --> 00:56:16,739 In the hypothalamus, we take small-chain proteins called peptides... 736 00:56:16,840 --> 00:56:22,301 and we assemble them into certain neuropeptides or neurohormones... 737 00:56:22,412 --> 00:56:27,145 that match the emotional states that we experience on a daily basis. 738 00:56:27,251 --> 00:56:31,813 So there's chemicals for anger, and there's chemicals for sadness... 739 00:56:31,922 --> 00:56:34,220 and there's chemicals for victimization. 740 00:56:34,324 --> 00:56:37,350 There's chemicals for lust. There's a chemical that matches... 741 00:56:37,461 --> 00:56:40,225 every emotional state that we experience. 742 00:56:40,330 --> 00:56:46,132 And the moment that we experience that emotional state in our body or in our brain... 743 00:56:46,236 --> 00:56:49,933 that hypothalamus will immediately assemble the peptide... 744 00:56:50,040 --> 00:56:54,340 and then releases it through the pituitary into the bloodstream. 745 00:56:54,444 --> 00:56:57,072 The moment it makes it into the bloodstream... 746 00:56:57,180 --> 00:57:00,843 it finds its way to different centers or different parts of the body. 747 00:57:00,951 --> 00:57:03,749 Now, every single cell in the body... 748 00:57:03,854 --> 00:57:06,152 - has these receptors on the outside. 749 00:57:06,256 --> 00:57:09,692 Now one cell can have thousands of receptors... 750 00:57:09,793 --> 00:57:14,253 studding its surface, kind of opening up to the outside world. 751 00:57:14,364 --> 00:57:17,094 And when a peptide docks on a cell... 752 00:57:17,200 --> 00:57:21,830 it literally, uh, like a key going into a lock... 753 00:57:21,939 --> 00:57:25,466 sits on the receptor surface and attaches to it... 754 00:57:25,575 --> 00:57:27,634 and kind of moves the receptor... 755 00:57:27,744 --> 00:57:32,044 and kind oflike a doorbell buzzing, sends a signal into the cell. 756 00:57:32,149 --> 00:57:35,141 - It's party time! 757 00:58:21,031 --> 00:58:23,090 What happens in adulthood... 758 00:58:23,200 --> 00:58:26,533 is that most of us who've had our glitches along the way... 759 00:58:26,636 --> 00:58:30,697 are operating in an emotionally detached place... 760 00:58:30,807 --> 00:58:35,744 or we're operating as if today were yesterday. 761 00:58:35,846 --> 00:58:38,440 - What is it? - Mixed. 762 00:58:53,530 --> 00:58:56,829 In either the disconnected place... 763 00:58:56,933 --> 00:58:59,299 or the overly emotional reactive place... 764 00:58:59,403 --> 00:59:03,965 because they've gone to an earlier time in reality... 765 00:59:05,308 --> 00:59:09,438 the person is not operating as an integrated whole. 766 00:59:35,572 --> 00:59:37,472 Along the outside of the cell... 767 00:59:37,574 --> 00:59:39,542 are these billions of receptor sites... 768 00:59:39,643 --> 00:59:43,306 that are really just receivers of incoming information. 769 00:59:43,413 --> 00:59:47,372 A receptor that has a peptide sitting in it, um... 770 00:59:47,484 --> 00:59:49,543 changes the cell in many ways. 771 00:59:49,653 --> 00:59:53,214 It sets off a whole cascade ofbiochemical events... 772 00:59:53,323 --> 00:59:57,817 some of which wind up with changes in the actual nucleus of the cell. 773 01:00:00,063 --> 01:00:02,190 - Hi. 774 01:00:02,299 --> 01:00:04,699 When I grow up, I want to become a photographer just like you. 775 01:00:04,801 --> 01:00:06,928 - Oh? - Got any tips? 776 01:00:07,037 --> 01:00:09,597 - Take lots of pictures. - Thanks! 777 01:00:12,409 --> 01:00:14,434 Each cell is definitely alive... 778 01:00:14,544 --> 01:00:16,876 and, uh, each cell has a consciousness... 779 01:00:16,980 --> 01:00:19,107 particularly if we define consciousness... 780 01:00:19,216 --> 01:00:21,343 as the point of view of an observer. 781 01:00:21,451 --> 01:00:23,578 There is always the perspective of the cell. 782 01:00:32,729 --> 01:00:34,697 In fact, the cell is... 783 01:00:34,798 --> 01:00:37,392 the smallest unit of consciousness in the body. 784 01:00:37,501 --> 01:00:39,469 I'm hungry! 785 01:00:46,476 --> 01:00:50,708 - We've commandeered an entire serving platter. 786 01:01:01,124 --> 01:01:04,093 Yeah! Keep it coming. Keep it coming. Yeah. 787 01:01:05,195 --> 01:01:07,720 - Delicious. - Oh, yeah. Oh. 788 01:01:09,833 --> 01:01:12,734 Well, my definition of an addiction is something really simple: 789 01:01:13,803 --> 01:01:15,703 something that you can't stop. 790 01:01:19,209 --> 01:01:24,442 Don't make me suffer please. Oh, I hurt! 791 01:01:27,184 --> 01:01:29,675 We bring to ourselves situations that will fulfill... 792 01:01:29,786 --> 01:01:32,414 the biochemical craving of the cells of our body... 793 01:01:32,522 --> 01:01:35,184 by creating situations that meet our chemical needs. 794 01:01:35,292 --> 01:01:37,385 It always happens to me. 795 01:01:37,494 --> 01:01:39,462 - Every day! - Why me? 796 01:01:39,563 --> 01:01:42,862 And the addict will always need a little bit more... 797 01:01:42,966 --> 01:01:46,424 in order to get a rush or a high of what they're looking for chemically. 798 01:01:46,536 --> 01:01:49,903 Don't tell me to calm down! You're always bossing me around. 799 01:01:50,006 --> 01:01:53,874 So my definition really means that if you can't control your emotional state... 800 01:01:53,977 --> 01:01:55,877 you must be addicted to it. 801 01:01:55,979 --> 01:01:59,471 Oh, I knew this was gonna happen. 802 01:01:59,583 --> 01:02:02,814 That's not what we agreed upon.! You're not going to screw me-- 803 01:02:02,919 --> 01:02:04,580 Why don't you read the contract? 804 01:02:04,688 --> 01:02:06,918 - You won't do anything, so I will. - No, no, ma'am. 805 01:02:07,023 --> 01:02:10,424 Don't dip your half-eaten shrimp back into the cocktail sauce. 806 01:02:10,527 --> 01:02:13,621 Screw you and your health codes! I am the bride's sister. 807 01:02:13,730 --> 01:02:16,927 I'll stick my ass in the cocktail sauce if I damn well please. 808 01:02:17,033 --> 01:02:21,402 What are you standing there for? Get out and serve. Make sure everybody has a full platter. 809 01:02:21,504 --> 01:02:24,667 Fun, fun, fun.! Listen, Steven. 810 01:02:24,774 --> 01:02:27,334 You won't do anything about it, so-- 811 01:02:27,444 --> 01:02:29,503 I want to be a photographer just like you. 812 01:02:56,573 --> 01:03:01,340 So how can anyone really say they're in love with a specific person... 813 01:03:01,444 --> 01:03:03,412 for example? 814 01:03:03,513 --> 01:03:06,141 They're only in love with the anticipation... 815 01:03:06,249 --> 01:03:09,548 of the emotions they're addicted to. 816 01:03:09,653 --> 01:03:14,556 Because the same person could fall out of favor the next week by not complying. 817 01:03:14,658 --> 01:03:17,627 My goodness, doesn't that change the landscape... 818 01:03:17,727 --> 01:03:22,630 of our emotional outlook on personal needs and identities? 819 01:03:40,250 --> 01:03:42,480 - Amanda! 820 01:04:08,211 --> 01:04:11,738 - How can you not fucking see? 821 01:04:13,516 --> 01:04:15,984 No! No, no, no, no. 822 01:04:16,086 --> 01:04:17,986 You got the-- the punch line wrong. 823 01:04:18,088 --> 01:04:20,886 It's a-- It's a photographer's joke. 824 01:04:20,990 --> 01:04:23,584 Go on about your, uh-- 825 01:04:23,693 --> 01:04:26,287 - Uh, music? 826 01:04:30,834 --> 01:04:33,132 Are-- Are you okay? 827 01:04:33,236 --> 01:04:36,034 Well, I-- 828 01:04:36,139 --> 01:04:40,508 I saw that groom fucking some girl! 829 01:04:40,610 --> 01:04:42,578 Uh, when? 830 01:04:42,679 --> 01:04:46,638 Just now! 831 01:04:46,750 --> 01:04:50,015 I was with the, uh-- the groom-- 832 01:04:50,120 --> 01:04:52,088 Hey, I can read lips! 833 01:04:52,188 --> 01:04:57,091 Uh, I'm sorry. Uh, I was with the groom just now. 834 01:04:57,193 --> 01:05:00,094 Yeah, he loves Paulette. 835 01:05:00,196 --> 01:05:03,188 - Where? 836 01:05:16,880 --> 01:05:19,576 Polacks-- They all look the same in a tux. 837 01:05:19,682 --> 01:05:21,650 You're not Polish, are-- Uh, hi. 838 01:05:21,751 --> 01:05:24,515 - Thanks. Here. 839 01:05:24,621 --> 01:05:26,589 This-- This'll help. 840 01:05:35,365 --> 01:05:38,493 - Oh, thank you. - No problem. 841 01:05:38,601 --> 01:05:42,162 That was in my mouth. Forget it. 842 01:05:49,546 --> 01:05:53,107 So, what's your name? 843 01:05:53,216 --> 01:05:56,549 - Elliot. Hi. - Yeah. 844 01:05:56,653 --> 01:05:58,553 - It's a-- - I'm Amanda. 845 01:05:58,655 --> 01:06:01,624 Hey, Amanda. I should've asked you what your name-- 846 01:06:03,893 --> 01:06:08,330 - You photograph a lot of weddings? - Yeah. I hate it. 847 01:06:08,431 --> 01:06:12,390 I'm doing the thing again with my hands. I'm sorry. 848 01:06:12,502 --> 01:06:15,960 We are emotions and emotions are us. 849 01:06:16,072 --> 01:06:18,040 Again I can't separate emotions. 850 01:06:18,141 --> 01:06:20,701 When you consider that, um... 851 01:06:20,810 --> 01:06:22,778 every aspect of your digestion... 852 01:06:22,879 --> 01:06:24,847 every sphincter that opens and closes... 853 01:06:24,948 --> 01:06:27,746 every group of cells that come in for nourishment... 854 01:06:27,851 --> 01:06:32,447 and then moves out to, um... 855 01:06:32,555 --> 01:06:35,023 heal something or repair something-- 856 01:06:35,124 --> 01:06:38,685 Those are all under the influence of the molecules of emotion. 857 01:06:38,795 --> 01:06:41,195 I mean, it's this total buzz. 858 01:06:44,834 --> 01:06:48,065 So you ask if emotions are bad. 859 01:06:48,171 --> 01:06:50,435 Emotions are not bad. They're life. 860 01:06:50,540 --> 01:06:55,000 They color the richness of our experience. It's our addiction that's the problem. 861 01:06:55,111 --> 01:06:57,443 The thing that most people don't realize is that... 862 01:06:57,547 --> 01:07:00,448 when they understand that they are addicted to emotions-- 863 01:07:00,550 --> 01:07:04,111 - Another drink? - it's notjust psychological. 864 01:07:04,220 --> 01:07:06,518 It's biochemical. Think about this. 865 01:07:06,623 --> 01:07:09,285 Heroin uses the same receptor mechanisms on the cells... 866 01:07:09,392 --> 01:07:11,451 that our emotional chemicals use. 867 01:07:11,561 --> 01:07:14,792 It's easy to see then that if we can be addicted to heroin... 868 01:07:14,898 --> 01:07:18,766 then we can be addicted to any neural peptide, any emotion. 869 01:07:18,868 --> 01:07:21,428 - To the groom! - To the groom. 870 01:07:21,538 --> 01:07:23,972 Whoo! 871 01:07:26,809 --> 01:07:28,709 - What's up, guys? - What's up, man? 872 01:07:28,811 --> 01:07:30,711 - Hello. - What do we need? 873 01:07:30,813 --> 01:07:32,713 - Some foxes. - Who put out. 874 01:07:32,815 --> 01:07:34,783 Yeah, baby! 875 01:07:48,831 --> 01:07:51,163 Cheers. 876 01:07:55,238 --> 01:07:57,331 So-- 877 01:07:59,275 --> 01:08:01,937 The relevant search command that's going on... 878 01:08:02,045 --> 01:08:06,141 is related to finding a certain emotional state. 879 01:08:06,249 --> 01:08:08,877 I mean, we can't even direct our eyes... 880 01:08:08,985 --> 01:08:11,681 without having an emotional aspect to it. 881 01:08:32,375 --> 01:08:35,936 Oh. Oh, gosh. 882 01:08:36,045 --> 01:08:38,172 She wouldn't fall for me. 883 01:08:38,281 --> 01:08:41,842 Oh, mama! Whoo! 884 01:08:41,951 --> 01:08:44,920 What the hell are you waitin'for? 885 01:08:45,021 --> 01:08:49,481 Come on, ya little pussies! Geez! I can't believe you guys! 886 01:08:49,592 --> 01:08:53,722 What are you-- Ooh.! Come on. Come on. Just get the hell out of the way. 887 01:08:53,830 --> 01:08:56,424 Hi there, honey! 888 01:08:56,532 --> 01:08:58,500 Come on, baby. You know you want it. 889 01:08:58,601 --> 01:09:00,967 Oh, don't give me that look. 890 01:09:07,343 --> 01:09:09,470 Now... 891 01:09:09,579 --> 01:09:13,140 what about people who are addicted to sex? 892 01:09:25,328 --> 01:09:27,387 Whoa! 893 01:09:27,497 --> 01:09:30,694 - Whew.! - Hello there, big boy. 894 01:09:34,337 --> 01:09:38,205 Is there a rocket in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me? 895 01:09:56,025 --> 01:09:58,550 ¶ The lights are on ¶ 896 01:09:58,661 --> 01:10:01,755 ¶But you're not home ¶ 897 01:10:01,864 --> 01:10:04,992 ¶ Your mind is not your own ¶ 898 01:10:05,101 --> 01:10:07,399 - Yeow! - ¶ Your heart sweats ¶ 899 01:10:07,503 --> 01:10:09,698 ¶ Your body shakes ¶ 900 01:10:09,806 --> 01:10:12,775 ¶ Your kiss is what it takes ¶ 901 01:10:12,875 --> 01:10:15,844 ¶ You can't sleep, oh ¶ 902 01:10:15,945 --> 01:10:18,209 ¶ You can't eat ¶ 903 01:10:18,314 --> 01:10:22,614 ¶ There's no doubt you're in deep ¶ 904 01:10:22,719 --> 01:10:26,587 ¶ Your throat is tight You can't breathe ¶ 905 01:10:26,689 --> 01:10:30,455 ¶Another kiss is all you need ¶ 906 01:10:30,560 --> 01:10:32,994 ¶ Whoa,you like to think ¶ 907 01:10:33,096 --> 01:10:35,496 ¶ That you're immune to the stuff ¶ 908 01:10:35,598 --> 01:10:38,567 - ¶ Oh,yeah ¶ 909 01:10:40,269 --> 01:10:43,966 ¶It's closer to the truth to say you can't get enough ¶ 910 01:10:44,073 --> 01:10:48,271 ¶ You know you're gonna have to face it You're addicted to love ¶ 911 01:10:48,377 --> 01:10:52,780 ¶ You see the signs but you can't read ¶ 912 01:10:52,882 --> 01:10:56,818 ¶ You're running at a different speed ¶ 913 01:10:56,919 --> 01:11:00,855 - ¶ Your heart beats in double time ¶ - Snap out of it! Over here! 914 01:11:00,957 --> 01:11:04,415 ¶Another kiss and you'll be mine ¶ 915 01:11:04,527 --> 01:11:09,521 ¶A one-track mind You can't be saved ¶ 916 01:11:09,632 --> 01:11:13,500 ¶ Oblivion is all you crave ¶ 917 01:11:13,603 --> 01:11:16,128 ¶If there's some ¶ 918 01:11:16,239 --> 01:11:18,139 - I want to hear some-- - Hold on. 919 01:11:18,241 --> 01:11:21,108 Would you not touch anything? That's very expensive equipment. All right? 920 01:11:22,211 --> 01:11:24,577 ¶ Whoa,you like to think ¶ 921 01:11:24,680 --> 01:11:26,910 ¶ That you're immune to the stuff ¶ 922 01:11:27,016 --> 01:11:29,416 ¶ Oh, yeah ¶ 923 01:11:32,588 --> 01:11:36,217 I want to hear some polka music, okay? 924 01:11:36,325 --> 01:11:39,852 These people want to hear some polka music. You can't have a Polish wedding... 925 01:11:39,962 --> 01:11:44,456 - without polka music.! - ¶ Might as well face it You're addicted to love ¶ 926 01:11:44,567 --> 01:11:47,832 ¶ Might as well face it You're-- ¶¶ 927 01:11:47,937 --> 01:11:50,167 No! Would you leave it alone? Keep your-- 928 01:11:50,273 --> 01:11:54,835 How can you have a Polish wedding without any-- Polish music? 929 01:11:54,944 --> 01:11:57,674 - Get your-- hands off my equipment! 930 01:12:02,318 --> 01:12:05,082 - Like I said before... 931 01:12:05,188 --> 01:12:08,715 it ain't a Polish wedding without a polka! 932 01:14:53,589 --> 01:14:58,356 Our mind literally creates our body. 933 01:14:58,461 --> 01:15:02,727 So it all starts in the cell. The cell is a protein-producing machine... 934 01:15:02,832 --> 01:15:06,427 but it gets its signal from the brain. 935 01:15:06,535 --> 01:15:10,835 One of the things about receptors is they change in their sensitivity. 936 01:15:10,940 --> 01:15:16,207 If a given receptor for a given drug or internal juice... 937 01:15:16,312 --> 01:15:21,477 is being bombarded for a long time at a high intensity... 938 01:15:21,584 --> 01:15:24,018 it will literally shrink up. 939 01:15:24,120 --> 01:15:26,111 There will be less of them. 940 01:15:26,222 --> 01:15:29,020 Or it will be hooked up in such a way... 941 01:15:29,125 --> 01:15:33,027 that it is desensitized or downregulated. 942 01:15:33,129 --> 01:15:36,929 So the same amount of drug or internal juice... 943 01:15:37,033 --> 01:15:40,093 will elicit a much smaller response. 944 01:16:19,475 --> 01:16:24,105 If we're bombarding the cell with the same attitude and the same chemistry... 945 01:16:24,213 --> 01:16:26,681 over and over again on a daily basis... 946 01:16:26,782 --> 01:16:31,082 when that cell finally decides to divide... 947 01:16:31,187 --> 01:16:34,987 when it produces a sister cell or a daughter cell... 948 01:16:35,091 --> 01:16:39,551 that next cell will have more receptor sites... 949 01:16:39,662 --> 01:16:42,825 for those particular emotional neuropeptides... 950 01:16:42,932 --> 01:16:44,900 and less receptor sites... 951 01:16:45,000 --> 01:16:48,163 for vitamins, minerals, nutrients, fluid exchange... 952 01:16:48,270 --> 01:16:50,670 or even the release of waste products or toxins. 953 01:16:50,773 --> 01:16:55,233 Now, all aging is the result of improper protein production. 954 01:16:55,344 --> 01:16:57,539 What happens when we age? 955 01:16:57,646 --> 01:17:00,274 Our skin gets-- loses elasticity. 956 01:17:00,382 --> 01:17:02,850 Well, elastin is a protein. 957 01:17:02,952 --> 01:17:05,750 What happens to our enzymes? We don't digest as well. 958 01:17:05,855 --> 01:17:08,221 What happens to our synovial fluid? 959 01:17:08,324 --> 01:17:10,884 Those are proteins that become brittle and stiff. 960 01:17:10,993 --> 01:17:13,359 What happens to our bones? They become thin. 961 01:17:13,462 --> 01:17:17,558 So all aging is a result of improper protein production. 962 01:17:17,666 --> 01:17:19,566 So then the question arises... 963 01:17:19,668 --> 01:17:22,466 does it really matter what we eat? 964 01:17:22,571 --> 01:17:25,131 And does nutrition really have an effect... 965 01:17:25,241 --> 01:17:27,607 if the cell doesn't even have the receptor sites... 966 01:17:27,710 --> 01:17:30,508 after 20 years of emotional abuse... 967 01:17:30,613 --> 01:17:34,071 to even receive, or to let in... 968 01:17:34,183 --> 01:17:36,981 the nutrients that are necessary for its health? 969 01:17:53,702 --> 01:17:57,160 Okay, guys. It's time for a course correction... 970 01:17:57,273 --> 01:18:00,800 on our trajectory, along the path of our adventure. 971 01:18:00,910 --> 01:18:04,539 And that course correction is the movement to a new paradigm... 972 01:18:04,647 --> 01:18:06,638 just an expansion of the old-- 973 01:18:06,749 --> 01:18:12,085 just as the universe is larger than we thought it was in our modeling. 974 01:18:12,188 --> 01:18:15,749 And it's always larger than we think it is. 975 01:18:20,563 --> 01:18:22,531 I hate you. 976 01:18:44,687 --> 01:18:47,315 I hate you. 977 01:19:01,770 --> 01:19:03,670 You idiot! 978 01:19:06,275 --> 01:19:08,470 You suck! Look at you! 979 01:19:08,577 --> 01:19:10,636 You're fat! You're ugly! 980 01:19:10,746 --> 01:19:14,273 You are worth nothing! You're getting old! 981 01:19:14,383 --> 01:19:18,012 I hate you! 982 01:19:37,006 --> 01:19:39,907 It makes you wonder, doesn't it? 983 01:19:41,343 --> 01:19:44,312 If thoughts can do that to water... 984 01:19:44,413 --> 01:19:49,214 imagine what our thoughts can do to us. 985 01:20:05,334 --> 01:20:07,495 No one has ever came along... 986 01:20:07,603 --> 01:20:13,542 and ever given you sufficient, intelligent knowledge... 987 01:20:13,642 --> 01:20:16,133 about your beautiful self-- 988 01:20:16,245 --> 01:20:20,204 how you work from the inside out. 989 01:20:20,316 --> 01:20:23,945 Why do you have addictions? Because you have nothing better. 990 01:20:24,053 --> 01:20:26,021 You have dreamt of nothing better... 991 01:20:26,121 --> 01:20:29,090 because no one has ever taught you how to dream better. 992 01:20:33,696 --> 01:20:37,393 Do I think that you are bad? I don't think you're bad. 993 01:20:37,499 --> 01:20:40,297 Do I think you're good? I don't think you're good either. 994 01:20:40,402 --> 01:20:42,370 I think you're God. 995 01:20:47,443 --> 01:20:51,004 In general, the field of psychiatry really doesn't... 996 01:20:51,113 --> 01:20:55,049 allow for enough... 997 01:20:55,150 --> 01:20:57,448 freedom of action on people's part... 998 01:20:57,553 --> 01:21:00,750 meaning an awful lot of problems-- not all of them, to be sure... 999 01:21:00,856 --> 01:21:04,815 but an awful lot of problems that get labeled as psychological problems... 1000 01:21:04,927 --> 01:21:07,794 really amount to people making rotten choices. 1001 01:21:07,896 --> 01:21:11,059 And they ought to be instructed to make different ones. 1002 01:21:12,868 --> 01:21:15,098 Can I-- 1003 01:21:19,575 --> 01:21:22,942 um, borrow some toothpaste? 1004 01:21:32,187 --> 01:21:34,314 Thanks. 1005 01:21:38,694 --> 01:21:40,719 When I talk about ''we''disappearing... 1006 01:21:40,829 --> 01:21:43,491 I don't mean that we physically disappear. 1007 01:21:43,599 --> 01:21:47,091 What I mean is that we move out of the area of the brain... 1008 01:21:47,202 --> 01:21:49,170 that has to do with our personality... 1009 01:21:49,271 --> 01:21:53,901 that has to do with our association to people, our association to places... 1010 01:21:54,009 --> 01:21:57,968 our association to things and times and events. 1011 01:21:58,080 --> 01:22:02,813 We don't exist in the associative centers in our brain... 1012 01:22:02,918 --> 01:22:06,877 that reaffirms our identity and reaffirms our personality. 1013 01:22:06,989 --> 01:22:10,220 For the average person in the world who lives life... 1014 01:22:10,325 --> 01:22:14,318 and considers their life boring or uninspiring... 1015 01:22:14,430 --> 01:22:16,398 it's because they've made no attempt... 1016 01:22:16,498 --> 01:22:19,194 to gain knowledge and information that will inspire them. 1017 01:22:19,301 --> 01:22:22,930 They're so hypnotized by their environment... 1018 01:22:23,038 --> 01:22:26,940 through the media, through television... 1019 01:22:27,042 --> 01:22:31,138 through people living and creating ideals... 1020 01:22:31,246 --> 01:22:33,874 that everybody struggles to become... 1021 01:22:33,982 --> 01:22:35,950 that no one can actually become... 1022 01:22:36,051 --> 01:22:38,246 in terms of physical appearance... 1023 01:22:38,353 --> 01:22:41,982 and definitions of beauty and valor... 1024 01:22:42,090 --> 01:22:44,058 that are all illusions... 1025 01:22:44,159 --> 01:22:48,858 that most people surrender and live their life in mediocracy. 1026 01:22:48,964 --> 01:22:51,933 And they may live that life and the soul may never really-- 1027 01:22:52,034 --> 01:22:55,003 their desire may never really rise to the surface... 1028 01:22:55,103 --> 01:22:58,004 so they may want to be something else. 1029 01:22:58,106 --> 01:23:00,574 But if it does rise to the surface... 1030 01:23:00,676 --> 01:23:04,544 and, uh, they ask themselves if there is something more-- 1031 01:23:04,646 --> 01:23:08,343 Or, why am I here? What is the purpose of life? 1032 01:23:08,450 --> 01:23:10,714 Where am I going? What happens when I die? 1033 01:23:10,819 --> 01:23:13,117 They start to ask those questions. 1034 01:23:13,222 --> 01:23:17,454 They start to flirt and interact with the perception... 1035 01:23:17,559 --> 01:23:19,754 that they may be having a nervous breakdown... 1036 01:23:19,862 --> 01:23:23,354 and in reality, what they're doing is that their old concepts... 1037 01:23:23,465 --> 01:23:28,061 ofhow they viewed their life and the world start to fall apart. 1038 01:24:31,433 --> 01:24:35,062 We're in completely new territory in our brain... 1039 01:24:35,170 --> 01:24:37,138 and because we're in completely new territory... 1040 01:24:37,239 --> 01:24:39,799 we're rewiring the brain... 1041 01:24:39,908 --> 01:24:43,469 literally reconnecting to a new concept. 1042 01:24:43,579 --> 01:24:47,879 Then ultimately it changes us from the inside out. 1043 01:24:49,818 --> 01:24:52,378 If I change my mind, will I change my choices? 1044 01:24:52,487 --> 01:24:54,955 If I change my choices, will my life change? 1045 01:24:55,057 --> 01:24:57,617 Why can't I change? What am I addicted to? 1046 01:24:57,726 --> 01:25:00,388 What will I lose that I'm chemically attached to... 1047 01:25:00,495 --> 01:25:03,521 and what person, place, thing, time or event... 1048 01:25:03,632 --> 01:25:07,124 that I'm chemically attached to that I don't want to lose... 1049 01:25:07,235 --> 01:25:11,331 because I may have to experience the chemical withdrawal from that? 1050 01:25:11,440 --> 01:25:13,738 Hence the human drama. 1051 01:25:26,221 --> 01:25:29,987 Amanda, it's Bob, and I'm just calling to say... 1052 01:25:30,092 --> 01:25:33,118 I hope that you can come tonight. 1053 01:25:33,228 --> 01:25:37,096 I really want to see you. I, uh, really want to talk to ya. 1054 01:25:37,199 --> 01:25:39,326 I know we can work things out. 1055 01:25:47,776 --> 01:25:50,244 What's the only planet in the Milky Way... 1056 01:25:50,345 --> 01:25:53,109 that has habitation that is steeped... 1057 01:25:53,215 --> 01:25:59,085 in enormous subjugation of religion? 1058 01:25:59,187 --> 01:26:01,348 You know why that is? 1059 01:26:01,456 --> 01:26:05,358 It's because people have set up right and wrong. 1060 01:26:05,460 --> 01:26:08,395 If I do this, I'm going to get punished by God. 1061 01:26:08,497 --> 01:26:11,193 If I do the other thing, I'm going to get rewarded. 1062 01:26:11,299 --> 01:26:14,200 This is a really poor description... 1063 01:26:14,302 --> 01:26:18,136 that tries to map out a path in life for us to follow... 1064 01:26:18,240 --> 01:26:20,367 but with deplorable results. 1065 01:26:20,475 --> 01:26:24,036 Because there really is no such thing as good or bad. 1066 01:26:24,146 --> 01:26:27,582 We're judging things far too superficially that way. 1067 01:26:27,683 --> 01:26:32,245 Does that mean you're in favor of sin and licentiousness and depravity? No. 1068 01:26:32,354 --> 01:26:35,915 It simply means that you need to improve... 1069 01:26:36,024 --> 01:26:39,755 your expression and understanding of what you're dealing with here. 1070 01:26:39,861 --> 01:26:43,456 There are things that I do, and I know they'll evolve me. 1071 01:26:43,565 --> 01:26:45,760 There are other things that will not evolve me. 1072 01:26:45,867 --> 01:26:49,997 But it's not good or bad. There's no God waiting to punish you... 1073 01:26:50,105 --> 01:26:52,835 because you did one or the other. 1074 01:26:52,941 --> 01:26:56,809 There is no God condemning people. 1075 01:26:56,912 --> 01:26:59,847 Everyone is gods. 1076 01:26:59,948 --> 01:27:03,907 At the same time, God is, um-- 1077 01:27:04,019 --> 01:27:06,249 is this sort of placeholder name... 1078 01:27:06,354 --> 01:27:09,812 for those parts of our experience of the world... 1079 01:27:09,925 --> 01:27:13,452 which are somehow transcendent, somehow sublime. 1080 01:27:13,562 --> 01:27:17,862 I have no idea what God is. 1081 01:27:17,966 --> 01:27:20,628 Yet I have an experience that God is. 1082 01:27:20,736 --> 01:27:23,796 There is something very real about this presence called God... 1083 01:27:23,905 --> 01:27:27,238 although I have no idea how to define God... 1084 01:27:27,342 --> 01:27:29,742 to see God as a person or a thing. 1085 01:27:29,845 --> 01:27:32,439 I can't-- I can't seem to do it. 1086 01:27:32,547 --> 01:27:38,179 It's kind of like asking a human being to explain what God is... 1087 01:27:38,286 --> 01:27:43,952 is similar to asking a fish to explain the water in which the fish swims. 1088 01:27:44,059 --> 01:27:49,759 God is a superposition of all the spirit from all things. 1089 01:27:51,266 --> 01:27:53,928 You are a God in the making... 1090 01:27:54,035 --> 01:27:56,833 and you have to walk this path. 1091 01:27:56,938 --> 01:28:01,705 But someday,you have to love the abstract... 1092 01:28:01,810 --> 01:28:04,938 as much as you love the condition of addiction. 1093 01:28:07,716 --> 01:28:11,675 The only way that I will ever be great to myself... 1094 01:28:11,787 --> 01:28:14,620 is not what I do to my body... 1095 01:28:14,723 --> 01:28:16,850 but what I do to my mind. 1096 01:28:25,233 --> 01:28:29,033 So if we're consciously designing our destiny... 1097 01:28:29,137 --> 01:28:32,197 and if we're consciously, from a spiritual standpoint... 1098 01:28:32,307 --> 01:28:34,275 throwing in with the idea... 1099 01:28:34,376 --> 01:28:38,676 that our thoughts can affect our reality or affect our life... 1100 01:28:38,780 --> 01:28:41,146 'cause reality equals life... 1101 01:28:41,249 --> 01:28:46,118 then I have this little pact that I have when I create my day. 1102 01:28:46,221 --> 01:28:49,315 I say, ''I'm taking this time to create my day... 1103 01:28:49,424 --> 01:28:53,417 ''and I'm infecting the quantum field. 1104 01:28:53,528 --> 01:28:59,398 ''Now, if in fact the observer's watching me the whole time that I'm doing this... 1105 01:28:59,501 --> 01:29:02,698 ''and there is a spiritual aspect to myself... 1106 01:29:02,804 --> 01:29:06,205 ''then show me a sign today that you paid attention... 1107 01:29:06,308 --> 01:29:09,106 ''to any one of these things that I created... 1108 01:29:09,211 --> 01:29:13,011 ''and bring them in a way that I won't expect... 1109 01:29:13,114 --> 01:29:17,210 ''so I'm as surprised at my ability to be able to experience these things... 1110 01:29:17,319 --> 01:29:22,256 and make it so that I have no doubt that it's come from you.'' 1111 01:29:49,951 --> 01:29:52,511 So the brain is capable of millions of different things... 1112 01:29:52,621 --> 01:29:55,886 that people just really should learn... 1113 01:29:55,991 --> 01:29:59,256 how incredible they actually are and how incredible their minds actually are... 1114 01:29:59,361 --> 01:30:02,558 and that not only do they have this unbelievable thing within their head... 1115 01:30:02,664 --> 01:30:06,566 that can do so many things for them and can help us learn and can actually change and adapt... 1116 01:30:06,668 --> 01:30:09,228 it can make us something better than what we actually are... 1117 01:30:09,337 --> 01:30:11,828 and it can actually help us to transcend ourselves-- 1118 01:30:11,940 --> 01:30:14,500 There may be some way that it can actually take us... 1119 01:30:14,609 --> 01:30:16,873 to a higher level of our existence... 1120 01:30:16,978 --> 01:30:20,004 where we can actually understand the world in a deeper way... 1121 01:30:20,115 --> 01:30:23,710 where we can understand our relationship to things and people in a deeper way... 1122 01:30:23,818 --> 01:30:26,787 and we can ultimately make more meaning for ourselves in our world. 1123 01:30:26,888 --> 01:30:29,584 We can show that there's a spiritual part of our brain... 1124 01:30:29,691 --> 01:30:33,855 but it's a part that we all can have access to and it's something that we can all do. 1125 01:30:45,073 --> 01:30:47,906 We have to formulate what we want... 1126 01:30:48,009 --> 01:30:51,570 and be so concentrated on it and so focused on it... 1127 01:30:51,680 --> 01:30:54,046 and have so much of our awareness of it... 1128 01:30:54,149 --> 01:30:57,084 that we lose track of ourselves. 1129 01:30:57,185 --> 01:30:59,153 We lose track of time. 1130 01:30:59,254 --> 01:31:01,381 We lose track of our identity. 1131 01:31:01,489 --> 01:31:05,448 And the moment we become so involved in that experience... 1132 01:31:05,560 --> 01:31:09,792 that we lose track of ourselves, we lose track of time... 1133 01:31:09,898 --> 01:31:13,026 that picture is the only picture that's real. 1134 01:31:13,134 --> 01:31:15,762 And everybody's had that experience... 1135 01:31:15,870 --> 01:31:18,498 when they've made up their mind that they've wanted something. 1136 01:31:18,606 --> 01:31:20,574 That's quantum physics in action. 1137 01:31:20,675 --> 01:31:25,305 That's manifesting reality. That's the observer in full effect. 1138 01:31:27,882 --> 01:31:31,340 Your consciousness influences others around you. 1139 01:31:32,787 --> 01:31:35,415 It influences material properties. 1140 01:31:37,792 --> 01:31:39,919 It influences your future. 1141 01:31:41,896 --> 01:31:44,524 You are cocreating your future. 1142 01:32:10,692 --> 01:32:13,661 Show me a sign today that you paid attention... 1143 01:32:13,762 --> 01:32:16,230 to any one of these things that I created... 1144 01:32:16,331 --> 01:32:19,630 and bring them in a way that I won't expect... 1145 01:32:19,734 --> 01:32:23,966 so I'm as surprised at my ability to be able to experience these things... 1146 01:32:24,072 --> 01:32:28,372 and make it so that I have no doubt that it's come from you. 1147 01:32:33,181 --> 01:32:35,376 Do we really know each other? 1148 01:32:35,483 --> 01:32:37,644 What is my life? 1149 01:32:37,752 --> 01:32:40,312 Consciousness of religion is something fundamental. 1150 01:32:49,164 --> 01:32:51,655 Have you ever seen yourself... 1151 01:32:51,766 --> 01:32:55,463 through the eyes of someone else that you have become? 1152 01:32:58,873 --> 01:33:01,842 What an initiation. 1153 01:33:08,216 --> 01:33:13,279 Have you ever stopped for a moment and looked at yourself... 1154 01:33:13,388 --> 01:33:17,757 through the eyes of the ultimate observer? 1155 01:34:03,271 --> 01:34:06,502 I am much more than I think I am. 1156 01:34:06,608 --> 01:34:09,168 I can be much more even than that. 1157 01:34:10,545 --> 01:34:14,845 I can influence my environment, the people. 1158 01:34:16,084 --> 01:34:19,918 I can influence space itself. 1159 01:34:20,021 --> 01:34:22,819 I can influence the future. 1160 01:34:23,925 --> 01:34:26,086 I am responsible for all those things. 1161 01:34:28,463 --> 01:34:31,830 I and the surround are not separate. 1162 01:34:31,933 --> 01:34:34,401 They're part of one. 1163 01:34:34,502 --> 01:34:36,800 I'm connected to it all. 1164 01:34:38,373 --> 01:34:40,341 I'm not alone. 1165 01:34:44,946 --> 01:34:48,313 Knowing that there's this interconnectedness of the universe... 1166 01:34:48,416 --> 01:34:51,977 that we are all interconnected and that we are connected to the universe... 1167 01:34:52,086 --> 01:34:54,054 at its fundamental level... 1168 01:34:54,155 --> 01:34:57,420 I think is as good an explanation for spirituality as there is. 1169 01:34:57,525 --> 01:35:01,484 It is my belief that our purpose here... 1170 01:35:01,596 --> 01:35:06,397 is to develop our gifts of intentionality... 1171 01:35:06,501 --> 01:35:11,302 and learn how to be effective creators. 1172 01:35:11,406 --> 01:35:13,840 We are here to be creators. 1173 01:35:13,942 --> 01:35:18,743 We are here to infiltrate space... 1174 01:35:18,846 --> 01:35:23,078 with ideas and mansions of thought. 1175 01:35:23,184 --> 01:35:26,381 We are here to make something of this life. 1176 01:35:26,487 --> 01:35:28,546 To acknowledge the quantum self... 1177 01:35:28,656 --> 01:35:31,887 to acknowledge the place where we really have choice... 1178 01:35:31,993 --> 01:35:34,325 to acknowledge mind-- 1179 01:35:34,429 --> 01:35:37,830 When that shift of perspective takes place... 1180 01:35:37,932 --> 01:35:41,060 we say that somebody has been enlightened. 1181 01:35:46,908 --> 01:35:51,538 Quantum mechanics allows for the intangible... 1182 01:35:51,646 --> 01:35:54,206 phenomenon of freedom... 1183 01:35:54,315 --> 01:35:57,910 to be woven into human nature. 1184 01:35:59,654 --> 01:36:03,613 Quantum physics, very succinctly speaking... 1185 01:36:03,725 --> 01:36:06,853 is a physics of possibilities. 1186 01:36:06,961 --> 01:36:10,556 It opens fundamentally the question of whose possibilities... 1187 01:36:10,665 --> 01:36:14,032 and who chooses from these possibilities... 1188 01:36:14,135 --> 01:36:16,968 to give us the actual event of experience. 1189 01:36:17,071 --> 01:36:21,235 The only answer that is satisfactory both logically and meaningfully... 1190 01:36:21,342 --> 01:36:25,972 is the answer that consciousness is the ground of all being. 1191 01:36:26,080 --> 01:36:29,675 We must pursue knowledge... 1192 01:36:29,784 --> 01:36:32,753 without any interference of our addictions... 1193 01:36:32,854 --> 01:36:37,314 and if we can do that, we will manifest knowledge in reality... 1194 01:36:37,425 --> 01:36:40,155 and our bodies will experience it... 1195 01:36:40,261 --> 01:36:44,925 in new ways, in new chemistry, in new holograms... 1196 01:36:45,033 --> 01:36:49,197 new elsewheres of thought... 1197 01:36:49,304 --> 01:36:51,829 beyond our wildest dreams. 1198 01:36:51,939 --> 01:36:55,397 All of us one day will reach the level of the avatars... 1199 01:36:55,510 --> 01:36:58,035 that we have read about in history-- 1200 01:36:58,146 --> 01:37:00,273 the Buddhas and theJesus. 1201 01:37:02,650 --> 01:37:05,619 Welcome to the kingdom ofheaven... 1202 01:37:05,720 --> 01:37:09,679 withoutjudgment, without hate... 1203 01:37:09,791 --> 01:37:13,750 without testing, without anything. 1204 01:37:13,861 --> 01:37:19,163 That we simply are has allowed this reality we call real... 1205 01:37:19,267 --> 01:37:21,758 from the power of intangibility... 1206 01:37:21,869 --> 01:37:25,771 to pull out of inertness, action-- chaos-- 1207 01:37:25,873 --> 01:37:28,239 and hold it into its form... 1208 01:37:28,343 --> 01:37:30,971 and we call it matter. 1209 01:37:47,662 --> 01:37:49,630 How can we measure the effects? 1210 01:37:49,731 --> 01:37:54,191 We get to live our life and see then if somewhere in our lives... 1211 01:37:54,302 --> 01:37:57,100 something's changed. 1212 01:37:59,207 --> 01:38:01,107 And then if it has changed... 1213 01:38:01,209 --> 01:38:04,736 we become the scientists to our life... 1214 01:38:04,846 --> 01:38:07,314 which is the whole reason why we're here. 1215 01:38:50,258 --> 01:38:53,227 Don'tjust take it at face value. 1216 01:38:53,327 --> 01:38:55,795 Test it out and see whether it's true. 1217 01:39:09,143 --> 01:39:12,943 - Hey, you're back. - I'm back. 1218 01:39:13,047 --> 01:39:17,143 - So you never answered my question. - What question? 1219 01:39:17,251 --> 01:39:20,948 How far down the rabbit hole do you want to go? 1220 01:39:43,644 --> 01:39:46,010 Ponder that for a while. 1221 01:39:55,990 --> 01:39:58,754 My name's David Albert. Um... 1222 01:39:58,860 --> 01:40:02,819 I, uh, got a Ph.D. in theoretical physics. 1223 01:40:05,867 --> 01:40:10,065 I studied biochemistry at Rutgers University... 1224 01:40:10,171 --> 01:40:12,139 and then went to chiropractic college... 1225 01:40:12,240 --> 01:40:14,572 at Life University in Atlanta, Georgia. 1226 01:40:14,675 --> 01:40:18,111 My postgraduate training is in anatomy and physiology... 1227 01:40:18,212 --> 01:40:21,204 neurochemistry, neurophysiology and genetics. 1228 01:40:23,384 --> 01:40:26,012 I study quantum physics. I sometimes teach it. 1229 01:40:26,120 --> 01:40:28,850 I have written a book on quantum physics and many books... 1230 01:40:28,956 --> 01:40:31,925 explicating the meaning of quantum physics. 1231 01:40:35,129 --> 01:40:37,825 After my Ph.D. from Harvard, I went to CERN... 1232 01:40:37,932 --> 01:40:39,900 a European laboratory for particle research... 1233 01:40:40,001 --> 01:40:41,969 and then joined faculty at Stanford. 1234 01:40:42,069 --> 01:40:45,698 And my work there has been the development of unified quantum field theories. 1235 01:40:45,806 --> 01:40:49,503 I have about a hundred publications in this area, but perhaps I'm best known... 1236 01:40:49,610 --> 01:40:53,046 for the discovery of supersymmetric flipped SU5... 1237 01:40:53,147 --> 01:40:55,115 grand unified field theory. 1238 01:41:00,221 --> 01:41:02,621 I make my living as an anesthesiologist... 1239 01:41:02,723 --> 01:41:05,191 and every day as I put my patients to sleep... 1240 01:41:05,293 --> 01:41:08,421 I kind of wonder where they go and why they're there in the first place. 1241 01:41:08,529 --> 01:41:10,497 That's one of the reasons that attracted me... 1242 01:41:10,598 --> 01:41:12,998 to anesthesia and the study of consciousness. 1243 01:41:17,538 --> 01:41:19,563 My name is Miceal Ledwith... 1244 01:41:19,674 --> 01:41:25,135 and for most of my life I was a professor of theology. 1245 01:41:28,416 --> 01:41:31,010 I'm Dr. Daniel Monti. I'm a physician... 1246 01:41:31,118 --> 01:41:33,985 with specialty training in psychiatry and human behavior. 1247 01:41:34,088 --> 01:41:37,546 I'm on the full-time faculty at theJefferson Medical College. 1248 01:41:39,260 --> 01:41:41,160 I actually got very interested in studying... 1249 01:41:41,262 --> 01:41:43,628 this whole topic of the brain and spirituality... 1250 01:41:43,731 --> 01:41:47,497 because it had to do with the questions I was asking since I was a child... 1251 01:41:47,602 --> 01:41:51,595 about reality and how we understood truth and what was real. 1252 01:41:51,706 --> 01:41:54,231 As I grew up and as I realized that... 1253 01:41:54,342 --> 01:41:56,867 while spirituality was, in some senses... 1254 01:41:56,978 --> 01:41:59,105 a very important part of trying to find those answers... 1255 01:41:59,213 --> 01:42:01,181 science also was a very crucial part. 1256 01:42:01,282 --> 01:42:03,978 I was ultimately looking for some way... 1257 01:42:04,085 --> 01:42:06,417 ofbringing those two forces together. 1258 01:42:11,158 --> 01:42:13,058 Well, my name is Candace Pert... 1259 01:42:13,160 --> 01:42:17,119 and I'm a professor at Georgetown in the medical school. 1260 01:42:19,900 --> 01:42:22,460 Here we are actually filming great thinkers. 1261 01:42:22,570 --> 01:42:25,038 Everyone in this room is a great thinker... 1262 01:42:25,139 --> 01:42:27,937 now that we got 'em thinking. 1263 01:42:28,042 --> 01:42:30,010 That's always a trick, isn't it? 1264 01:42:32,513 --> 01:42:36,176 I should make it clear that I'm a graduate student in physics. 1265 01:42:36,283 --> 01:42:39,741 I'm not a full-fledged theoretical physicist yet. 1266 01:42:39,854 --> 01:42:42,948 Uh, but if fortune smiles on me... 1267 01:42:43,057 --> 01:42:47,653 and I continue to work like a dog on my problem sets and exams and whatnot... 1268 01:42:47,762 --> 01:42:49,992 eventually what I hope to do with this is-- 1269 01:42:50,097 --> 01:42:53,931 is to apply fundamental quantum theory... 1270 01:42:54,035 --> 01:42:57,004 to quantum information processing. 1271 01:42:59,473 --> 01:43:02,840 So I decided, well, if I gave up being department chairman... 1272 01:43:02,943 --> 01:43:05,377 and if I gave up all my professional committees... 1273 01:43:05,479 --> 01:43:09,779 and I gave up all my government committees, I would have a block of time... 1274 01:43:09,884 --> 01:43:12,216 that I could put to work. 1275 01:43:12,319 --> 01:43:14,514 Of course I gave up all my power positions... 1276 01:43:14,622 --> 01:43:16,852 but you have to sacrifice something. 1277 01:43:16,957 --> 01:43:20,518 I had to keep my day job because my family needed to be fed. 1278 01:43:27,835 --> 01:43:31,066 I presume that you're asking me how a scientist can sound this wacko... 1279 01:43:31,172 --> 01:43:35,871 because I must be sounding wacko. 1280 01:43:35,976 --> 01:43:40,777 It's really an interesting question. If you study science long enough... 1281 01:43:40,881 --> 01:43:44,180 and seriously enough and dig deeply enough... 1282 01:43:44,285 --> 01:43:46,981 if you don't come out feeling wacko about it... 1283 01:43:47,088 --> 01:43:49,056 you haven't understood a thing.