1 00:00:30,548 --> 00:00:33,464 What's going on, and why am I here? 2 00:00:39,303 --> 00:00:42,013 - Where do we come from? - What do quantum physics-- 3 00:00:42,120 --> 00:00:45,162 - Immense quantum mechanical isotopes. - Physics of possibility. 4 00:00:45,273 --> 00:00:48,052 Quantum mechanics allows-- 5 00:00:51,848 --> 00:00:53,918 Supreme mind. 6 00:00:54,028 --> 00:00:56,441 - Brain is capable of millions-- - A neural net. 7 00:00:56,544 --> 00:00:59,048 - Cascade of biochemical-- - An emotional response-- 8 00:00:59,160 --> 00:01:01,070 Molecules-- 9 00:01:01,173 --> 00:01:03,620 The brain does not know the difference between... 10 00:01:03,722 --> 00:01:06,467 what it sees in its environment and what it remembers. 11 00:01:06,573 --> 00:01:08,711 We are running the holodeck. 12 00:01:10,363 --> 00:01:13,679 Whatever way we observe the world around us-- 13 00:01:13,785 --> 00:01:18,577 So how can you continue to see the world as real... 14 00:01:18,682 --> 00:01:23,576 if the self that is determining it to be real is intangible? 15 00:02:22,614 --> 00:02:27,132 Are all realities existing simultaneously? 16 00:02:32,040 --> 00:02:34,418 Is there a possibility... 17 00:02:34,522 --> 00:02:38,204 that all potentials exist side by side? 18 00:02:44,585 --> 00:02:49,480 Have you ever seen yourself through the eyes of someone else that you have become... 19 00:03:01,658 --> 00:03:06,416 and looked at yourself through the eyes of the ultimate observer? 20 00:03:10,849 --> 00:03:13,193 Who are we? 21 00:03:13,298 --> 00:03:16,808 Where do we come from, what should we do... 22 00:03:16,921 --> 00:03:19,963 and where are we going? 23 00:03:20,073 --> 00:03:24,899 Why are we here? Well, that is the ultimate question, isn't it? 24 00:03:25,004 --> 00:03:27,383 What is reality? 25 00:03:27,486 --> 00:03:30,962 What I thought was unreal, now for me... 26 00:03:31,075 --> 00:03:35,261 seems in some ways to be more real than what I think to be real... 27 00:03:35,368 --> 00:03:38,685 which seems now more to be unreal. 28 00:03:38,790 --> 00:03:40,700 You can't explain it, um... 29 00:03:40,803 --> 00:03:43,341 and anybody who gets too lost in try-- 30 00:03:43,453 --> 00:03:45,363 anybody who spends too much time trying to explain it... 31 00:03:45,465 --> 00:03:49,583 is likely to get lost forever down the rabbit hole of mysteriousness. 32 00:03:51,167 --> 00:03:53,374 I think the more you look at quantum physics... 33 00:03:53,482 --> 00:03:56,832 the more mysterious and wondrous it becomes. 34 00:03:56,937 --> 00:03:59,749 Quantum physics... 35 00:03:59,855 --> 00:04:04,041 very succinctly speaking... 36 00:04:04,149 --> 00:04:07,225 is a physics of possibilities. 37 00:04:08,274 --> 00:04:10,184 These are questions-- 38 00:04:10,287 --> 00:04:14,975 These are addressing questions, um, of how the world feels to us... 39 00:04:15,083 --> 00:04:18,365 of-of whether there's a difference between the way the world feels to us... 40 00:04:18,471 --> 00:04:20,747 and the way it really is. 41 00:04:20,853 --> 00:04:24,238 Have you ever thought about what thoughts are made of? 42 00:04:24,342 --> 00:04:27,555 I think some of the things we're seeing with the children today... 43 00:04:27,662 --> 00:04:30,772 is a sign that the culture is in the wrong paradigm... 44 00:04:30,882 --> 00:04:34,633 and not appreciating the power of thought. 45 00:04:34,739 --> 00:04:37,518 Every age, every generation has its built-in assumptions-- 46 00:04:37,624 --> 00:04:40,838 That the world is flat, or that the world is round, et cetera. 47 00:04:40,945 --> 00:04:42,855 There are hundreds of hidden assumptions... 48 00:04:42,957 --> 00:04:46,605 things we take for granted, that may or may not be true. 49 00:04:46,714 --> 00:04:50,568 Of course, in the vast majority of cases, historically, these things aren't true. 50 00:04:50,672 --> 00:04:53,245 So presumably, if history is any guide... 51 00:04:53,356 --> 00:04:58,376 much about what we take for granted about the world simply isn't true. 52 00:04:58,488 --> 00:05:02,674 But we're locked into these precepts without even knowing it of ten times. 53 00:05:02,781 --> 00:05:04,760 That's a paradigm. 54 00:05:04,861 --> 00:05:07,640 Modern materialism... 55 00:05:07,745 --> 00:05:11,634 strips people of the need to feel responsible... 56 00:05:11,737 --> 00:05:14,814 and often enough, so does religion. 57 00:05:14,924 --> 00:05:18,470 But I think if you take quantum mechanics seriously enough... 58 00:05:18,580 --> 00:05:21,760 it puts the responsibility squarely in your lap. 59 00:05:21,867 --> 00:05:27,265 And it doesn't give answers that are clear-cut... 60 00:05:27,369 --> 00:05:29,815 and comforting. 61 00:05:29,917 --> 00:05:34,675 It says, yes, the world is a very big place. It's very mysterious. 62 00:05:34,781 --> 00:05:40,752 Mechanism is not the answer, but I'm not gonna tell you what the answer is... 63 00:05:40,852 --> 00:05:44,809 because you're old enough to decide for yourself. 64 00:05:46,521 --> 00:05:49,300 Is everyone a mystery? 65 00:05:49,406 --> 00:05:52,288 Is everyone an enigma? 66 00:05:52,391 --> 00:05:55,135 They most certainly are. 67 00:05:55,242 --> 00:06:00,834 Asking yourself these deeper questions opens up new ways of being in the world. 68 00:06:00,945 --> 00:06:03,392 It brings in a breath of fresh air. 69 00:06:03,494 --> 00:06:06,845 It makes life more joyful. 70 00:06:06,948 --> 00:06:11,305 The real trick to life is not to be in the know... 71 00:06:11,410 --> 00:06:13,445 but be in the mystery. 72 00:06:30,865 --> 00:06:34,513 Why do we keep re-creating the same reality? 73 00:06:34,622 --> 00:06:37,068 Why do we keep having the same relationships? 74 00:06:38,412 --> 00:06:40,322 Why do we keep getting the samejobs... 75 00:06:40,424 --> 00:06:43,843 over and over again? 76 00:06:43,947 --> 00:06:48,201 In this infinite sea of potentials that exist around us... 77 00:06:48,306 --> 00:06:52,699 how come we keep re-creating the same realities? 78 00:06:52,802 --> 00:06:56,885 Isn't it amazing that we have options and potentials that exist... 79 00:06:56,994 --> 00:07:00,070 but we're unaware of them? 80 00:07:00,181 --> 00:07:04,699 Is it possible that we're so conditioned to our daily lives... 81 00:07:04,810 --> 00:07:07,818 so conditioned to the way we create our lives... 82 00:07:07,930 --> 00:07:12,218 that we buy the idea that we have no control at all? 83 00:07:13,631 --> 00:07:15,576 We've been conditioned to believe... 84 00:07:15,678 --> 00:07:18,995 that the external world is more real than the internal world. 85 00:07:19,099 --> 00:07:22,050 This new model of science says just the opposite-- 86 00:07:22,151 --> 00:07:27,046 It says what's happening within us will create what's happening outside of us. 87 00:07:27,149 --> 00:07:30,397 There's a physical reality that is absolutely rock-solid... 88 00:07:30,504 --> 00:07:33,820 and yet... it only-- 89 00:07:33,925 --> 00:07:36,738 If you wanna put it this way, it only comes into existence... 90 00:07:36,843 --> 00:07:42,036 when it bumps up against some other piece of physical reality. 91 00:07:42,143 --> 00:07:45,894 That other piece may be us, and of course, we're partial to those moments... 92 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:48,139 but it doesn't have to be either. 93 00:07:48,248 --> 00:07:53,143 You know, it could be just some incidental rock comes flying along... 94 00:07:53,245 --> 00:07:56,596 and interacts with this fuzzy mass of stuff... 95 00:07:56,701 --> 00:08:02,671 and sure enough, it provokes it into a particular state of existence. 96 00:08:02,771 --> 00:08:05,779 There were philosophers in the past that said, ''Look, if I kick a rock... 97 00:08:05,891 --> 00:08:07,801 ''and I hurt my toe, that's real. 98 00:08:07,903 --> 00:08:10,545 ''I feel that. It feels real. It's vivid. 99 00:08:10,655 --> 00:08:13,297 And that means that it's reality.'' 100 00:08:13,405 --> 00:08:18,368 But it's still an experience, and it's still this person's perception of it being real. 101 00:08:18,470 --> 00:08:23,490 Scientific experiments have shown that if we take a person and, uh... 102 00:08:23,602 --> 00:08:27,250 hook their brains up to certain PET scans or computer technology... 103 00:08:27,359 --> 00:08:31,315 and ask them to look at a certain object... 104 00:08:31,418 --> 00:08:34,894 and they watch, certain areas of the brain light up. 105 00:08:35,007 --> 00:08:37,614 And then they've asked them to close their eyes... 106 00:08:37,723 --> 00:08:40,399 and now imagine that same object. 107 00:08:40,508 --> 00:08:43,149 And when they imagine that same object... 108 00:08:43,258 --> 00:08:46,975 it produced the same areas of the brain to light up... 109 00:08:47,082 --> 00:08:49,152 as if they were actually visually looking at it. 110 00:08:49,263 --> 00:08:52,739 So it caused scientists to back up and ask this question. 111 00:08:52,851 --> 00:08:57,872 So who sees then? Does the brain see? Or do the eyes see? 112 00:08:57,983 --> 00:09:02,776 And what is reality? Is reality what we're seeing with our brain... 113 00:09:02,880 --> 00:09:05,590 or is reality what we're seeing with our eyes? 114 00:09:05,698 --> 00:09:09,083 And the truth is is that the brain does not know the difference... 115 00:09:09,186 --> 00:09:12,605 between what it sees in its environment and what it remembers... 116 00:09:12,709 --> 00:09:16,895 because the same specific neural nets are then firing. 117 00:09:17,002 --> 00:09:21,120 What is reality? 118 00:09:26,965 --> 00:09:31,219 We're bombarded by huge amounts of information... 119 00:09:31,324 --> 00:09:33,966 and it's coming into our body, and we're processing it-- 120 00:09:34,075 --> 00:09:37,025 coming in through our sense organs, and it's percolating up and up... 121 00:09:37,128 --> 00:09:40,444 and at each step we're eliminating information. 122 00:09:40,549 --> 00:09:43,534 And finally, what is bubbling up to consciousness is... 123 00:09:43,635 --> 00:09:47,054 the one that's the most self-serving. 124 00:09:47,157 --> 00:09:51,045 The brain processes 400 billion bits of information a second... 125 00:09:51,149 --> 00:09:53,355 but we're only aware of 2,000 of those. 126 00:09:53,463 --> 00:09:57,683 But our awareness of those 2,000 bits of information... 127 00:09:57,790 --> 00:10:02,045 arejust about the environment, our body and about time. 128 00:10:17,345 --> 00:10:21,165 We're living in a world where all we see is the tip of the iceberg-- 129 00:10:21,270 --> 00:10:25,856 the classical tip of an immense quantum mechanical iceberg. 130 00:10:27,475 --> 00:10:31,558 - Hey, wow! You got a lot of shots to develop? - No. 131 00:10:31,668 --> 00:10:36,025 Oh, bummer. Well, I'll catch you later. 132 00:10:53,739 --> 00:10:57,696 If the brain is processing 400 billion bits of information... 133 00:10:57,798 --> 00:11:00,440 and our awareness is only on 2,000-- 134 00:11:00,549 --> 00:11:03,831 that means reality's happening in the brain all the time. 135 00:11:03,937 --> 00:11:08,866 It's receiving that information, and yet we haven't integrated it. 136 00:11:12,959 --> 00:11:15,166 The eyes are like the lens. 137 00:11:15,274 --> 00:11:18,785 But the tape that's really seeing is the back of the brain. 138 00:11:18,896 --> 00:11:20,898 It's called the visual cortex. It's right back here. 139 00:11:21,009 --> 00:11:24,292 It's like this camera and its tape. 140 00:11:24,397 --> 00:11:30,367 Did you know that the brain imprints what it has the ability to see? 141 00:11:30,469 --> 00:11:32,379 This is important. 142 00:11:32,482 --> 00:11:35,330 For example: 143 00:11:35,433 --> 00:11:39,756 This camera is seeing a lot more around me... 144 00:11:39,860 --> 00:11:42,742 than what is here... 145 00:11:42,846 --> 00:11:46,894 because it is-- has no objection and no judgment. 146 00:11:52,439 --> 00:11:56,796 The only movie that's playing in the brain... 147 00:11:56,901 --> 00:12:00,983 is what we have the ability to see. 148 00:12:01,094 --> 00:12:03,872 So is it possible our eyes, our cameras... 149 00:12:03,978 --> 00:12:06,551 see more than what our brain... 150 00:12:06,661 --> 00:12:10,378 has the ability to consciously project? 151 00:12:12,867 --> 00:12:15,245 Well, the way our brain is wired up... 152 00:12:15,349 --> 00:12:18,665 we only see what we believe is possible. 153 00:12:18,771 --> 00:12:22,053 Um, we match patterns that already... 154 00:12:22,158 --> 00:12:25,772 uh, exist within ourselves through conditioning. 155 00:12:25,882 --> 00:12:29,530 So, a wonderful story that I believe is true... 156 00:12:29,639 --> 00:12:33,595 is that when the Indians-- the Native American Indians... 157 00:12:33,697 --> 00:12:38,660 on the Caribbean Islands saw Columbus's ships approaching... 158 00:12:38,762 --> 00:12:40,763 they couldn't see them at all. 159 00:12:40,875 --> 00:12:43,047 Because it was so... 160 00:12:43,156 --> 00:12:46,370 unlike anything they had ever seen before, they couldn't see it. 161 00:12:46,477 --> 00:12:49,051 When Columbus's armada landed in the Caribbean... 162 00:12:49,160 --> 00:12:51,641 none of the natives were able to see the ships... 163 00:12:51,743 --> 00:12:54,121 even though they existed on the horizon. 164 00:12:54,225 --> 00:12:56,935 The reason that they never saw the ships was because... 165 00:12:57,043 --> 00:13:03,013 they had no knowledge in their brains, or no experience, that clipper ships existed. 166 00:13:03,114 --> 00:13:09,051 So the shaman starts to notice that there's ripples out in the ocean, but he sees no ship... 167 00:13:09,152 --> 00:13:11,965 but he starts to wonder what's causing the effect. 168 00:13:12,069 --> 00:13:15,420 So every day he goes out and looks and looks and looks. 169 00:13:15,525 --> 00:13:18,601 And after a period of time, he's able to see the ships. 170 00:13:18,711 --> 00:13:23,674 And once he sees the ships, he tells everybody else that ships exist out there. 171 00:13:23,776 --> 00:13:28,796 Because everybody trusted and believed in him, they saw them also. 172 00:13:57,084 --> 00:14:01,670 We create reality. We're reality-producing machines. 173 00:14:01,780 --> 00:14:05,235 We create the effects of reality all the time. 174 00:14:07,683 --> 00:14:13,276 We always perceive something after reflection in the mirror of memory. 175 00:14:18,183 --> 00:14:21,099 As far as whether or not we're just living in a big holodeck or not... 176 00:14:21,201 --> 00:14:23,546 it's a question we don't necessarily have a good answer to. 177 00:14:23,650 --> 00:14:26,898 I think this is a big philosophical problem we have to deal with... 178 00:14:27,005 --> 00:14:29,715 in terms of what science can say about our world... 179 00:14:29,822 --> 00:14:32,566 because we are always the observer in science. 180 00:14:32,674 --> 00:14:34,584 So we are still always constrained... 181 00:14:34,686 --> 00:14:37,934 by what is ultimately coming into the human brain... 182 00:14:38,040 --> 00:14:40,818 that allows us to see and perceive the things we do. 183 00:14:40,925 --> 00:14:44,813 So it is conceivable that all of this really is just a great illusion... 184 00:14:44,916 --> 00:14:50,040 that we have no way of really getting outside of to see what is really out there. 185 00:14:50,149 --> 00:14:53,329 Your brain doesn't know the difference between what's taking place out there... 186 00:14:53,436 --> 00:14:55,346 and what's taking place in here. 187 00:14:55,448 --> 00:15:00,172 There is no ''out there'' out there independent of what's going on in here. 188 00:15:07,658 --> 00:15:12,244 You okay? I heard you scream earlier. Was it another dream? 189 00:15:14,770 --> 00:15:17,686 You were an Indian... 190 00:15:17,789 --> 00:15:22,477 watching Columbus's ship materialize out of thin air. 191 00:15:22,585 --> 00:15:24,895 Wow. 192 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:27,848 And this medicine man kept hitting you. 193 00:15:27,952 --> 00:15:31,303 Cool. That's-- 194 00:15:31,407 --> 00:15:35,891 Hey, maybe it was a past life or a parallel reality... 195 00:15:36,002 --> 00:15:37,912 or a future life. 196 00:15:38,015 --> 00:15:39,959 Get real. 197 00:15:43,952 --> 00:15:46,902 Or maybe that dream was trying to tell you the truth. 198 00:15:47,004 --> 00:15:50,755 I guess it just depends on what you think is real. 199 00:15:50,861 --> 00:15:52,897 Maybe you should try different anxiety pills. 200 00:15:53,008 --> 00:15:55,891 My pills are fine, okay? Thank you. 201 00:15:57,302 --> 00:16:00,721 Well, I have to go get dressed. 202 00:16:02,769 --> 00:16:06,783 Mmm. I hope you feel better, Amanda. 203 00:16:14,878 --> 00:16:19,464 God, Amanda. You can be such an asshole. 204 00:16:31,012 --> 00:16:36,170 There actually are choices in the direction of how a life can go... 205 00:16:36,279 --> 00:16:41,837 that are contingent upon small-level quantum effects... 206 00:16:41,947 --> 00:16:44,726 not being washed out. 207 00:16:44,832 --> 00:16:48,045 First of all, let's talk about the subatomic world... 208 00:16:48,152 --> 00:16:50,599 and then we'll talk about what it's telling us about reality. 209 00:16:50,701 --> 00:16:52,771 The first thing I wanna tell you about the subatomic world... 210 00:16:52,882 --> 00:16:58,177 is it's totally a fantasy created by mad physicists trying to figure out... 211 00:16:58,282 --> 00:17:01,736 what the heck is goin' on when they do these little experiments. 212 00:17:01,838 --> 00:17:06,562 By little experiments, I mean big energy in little spaces in little pieces of time. 213 00:17:06,668 --> 00:17:09,310 It gets pretty nutty at that realm of things... 214 00:17:09,419 --> 00:17:13,570 and so subatomic physics was invented to try to figure that all out. 215 00:17:13,679 --> 00:17:17,189 We need a new science down there, and it's called quantum physics... 216 00:17:17,301 --> 00:17:22,734 and it is subject to a whole range of debatable hypotheses... 217 00:17:22,836 --> 00:17:28,200 thoughts, feelings, intuitions as to what the heck is really going on. 218 00:17:28,303 --> 00:17:31,483 Matter is not what we have long thought it to be. 219 00:17:31,590 --> 00:17:37,320 Uh-- To the scientists, matter has always been thought of as sort of the ultimate... 220 00:17:37,427 --> 00:17:40,846 in that which is static and predictable. 221 00:17:40,949 --> 00:17:45,776 Within all the atoms and molecules, all the space within them... 222 00:17:45,880 --> 00:17:50,432 the particles take up an insignificant amount of the-- 223 00:17:50,542 --> 00:17:53,790 of the volume of an atom or molecule, the fundamental particles. 224 00:17:53,896 --> 00:17:55,806 The rest of it is vacuum. 225 00:17:55,909 --> 00:17:59,523 What seems to happen is that particles appear and disappear all the time. 226 00:17:59,632 --> 00:18:02,674 So where do they go when they're not here? 227 00:18:02,785 --> 00:18:05,770 Now, that question is tricky. 228 00:18:05,871 --> 00:18:09,256 I'm gonna give you two answers-- Answer number one: 229 00:18:09,359 --> 00:18:12,504 They go into an alternative universe... 230 00:18:12,614 --> 00:18:15,827 where the people in that universe are asking the same question... 231 00:18:15,934 --> 00:18:18,816 about those particles when they come into our universe. 232 00:18:18,920 --> 00:18:21,366 They say, ''Where do they go?'' 233 00:18:23,280 --> 00:18:28,003 There's a great mystery called the mystery of the direction of time. 234 00:18:28,110 --> 00:18:31,620 There's a certain sense in which the fundamental laws of physics that we have... 235 00:18:31,733 --> 00:18:35,815 don't make any interesting distinctions, say, between past and future. 236 00:18:35,926 --> 00:18:41,656 Um, for example, it's a puzzle from the standpoint of the fundamental laws of physics... 237 00:18:41,762 --> 00:18:44,506 why we should be able to... 238 00:18:44,614 --> 00:18:47,827 um, remember the past, um... 239 00:18:47,934 --> 00:18:52,016 and not have the same kind of epistemic access to the future. 240 00:18:52,127 --> 00:18:55,112 It's a puzzle from the standpoint of these laws... 241 00:18:55,212 --> 00:18:58,460 why we should think something like by acting now... 242 00:18:58,567 --> 00:19:01,746 we can affect the future but not the past. 243 00:19:01,854 --> 00:19:06,749 These things-- that we have a different kind of epistemic access to the past and future... 244 00:19:06,852 --> 00:19:09,803 that we have a different kind of control by acting now... 245 00:19:09,904 --> 00:19:12,180 over the future than we do over the past... 246 00:19:12,286 --> 00:19:17,272 these things are so fundamental to the way we experience the world... 247 00:19:17,385 --> 00:19:20,233 that, um-- um-- 248 00:19:20,336 --> 00:19:23,321 that it seems to me, not to be curious about them is to be... 249 00:19:23,422 --> 00:19:25,492 you know, three-quarters of the way to being dead. 250 00:19:35,565 --> 00:19:38,745 Wanna shoot some hoops? 251 00:19:42,810 --> 00:19:45,154 Now, you don't have to be like that. 252 00:19:45,258 --> 00:19:47,294 Come on and play. 253 00:19:47,405 --> 00:19:50,218 Look. He likes you. 254 00:19:50,324 --> 00:19:52,530 Don't you have time for a little one-on-one? 255 00:19:56,227 --> 00:19:58,365 How long has it been since you played? 256 00:19:59,917 --> 00:20:03,061 Come on. You got the ball. Take a shot. 257 00:20:04,613 --> 00:20:07,597 No, no, no, milady. Not from there. It's out-of-bounds. 258 00:20:07,699 --> 00:20:11,621 You gotta be on the court to be in play. 259 00:20:23,128 --> 00:20:27,886 Welcome to Duke Reginald's Court of Unending Possibilities. 260 00:20:56,604 --> 00:20:59,280 Court rules-- Gotta sink the last one. 261 00:20:59,388 --> 00:21:02,167 - That hurt. - It never touched you. 262 00:21:02,272 --> 00:21:06,058 - Right. - And it's not solid. 263 00:21:06,164 --> 00:21:09,172 This ball is mostly empty. 264 00:21:09,283 --> 00:21:11,158 In fact, the universe is mostly empty. 265 00:21:16,931 --> 00:21:21,586 We like to think of space as empty and matter as solid. 266 00:21:21,694 --> 00:21:25,445 But in fact, there is essentially nothing to matter whatsoever. 267 00:21:25,552 --> 00:21:27,690 It's completely insubstantial. 268 00:21:29,644 --> 00:21:31,646 Take a look at an atom. 269 00:21:31,757 --> 00:21:35,268 We think of it as a kind of hard ball. 270 00:21:35,379 --> 00:21:37,289 Then we say, ''Oh, well, not really. 271 00:21:37,392 --> 00:21:42,355 ''It's this little tiny point of really dense matter right at the center... 272 00:21:42,457 --> 00:21:45,934 ''surrounded by a kind of fluffy probability cloud of electrons... 273 00:21:46,046 --> 00:21:48,688 popping in and out of existence. '' 274 00:21:50,139 --> 00:21:52,049 But then it turns out that that's not even right. 275 00:21:52,151 --> 00:21:55,159 Even the nucleus, which we think of as so dense... 276 00:21:55,271 --> 00:22:00,897 pops in and out of existence just as readily as the electrons do. 277 00:22:01,006 --> 00:22:05,328 The most solid thing you can say about all this insubstantial matter... 278 00:22:05,434 --> 00:22:07,378 is that it's more like a thought-- 279 00:22:07,480 --> 00:22:11,402 it's like a concentrated bit of information. 280 00:22:13,015 --> 00:22:16,491 What makes up things are not more things... 281 00:22:16,604 --> 00:22:21,464 but what makes up things are ideas, concepts, information. 282 00:22:24,017 --> 00:22:27,665 And like I said, it never touches. 283 00:22:35,186 --> 00:22:37,096 Those electrons build up a charge... 284 00:22:37,199 --> 00:22:40,207 and push the other electrons away before they touch. 285 00:22:43,270 --> 00:22:46,414 So nobody touches nothin'. 286 00:22:46,524 --> 00:22:50,069 Come on. Put your stuff down. Nobody's gonna take it. 287 00:22:50,180 --> 00:22:52,661 Like I said, this is my court. It's no problem. 288 00:23:08,729 --> 00:23:11,680 - How long has it been? - I'll be late. 289 00:23:11,781 --> 00:23:16,299 It's only in conscious experience that it seems that we move forward in time. 290 00:23:16,411 --> 00:23:18,823 In quantum theory, you can also go backwards in time. 291 00:23:18,926 --> 00:23:22,140 You can always go back in time. 292 00:23:28,788 --> 00:23:32,939 What's the matter? Remember, it's empty. 293 00:23:33,048 --> 00:23:35,930 How do you know this shit? 294 00:23:36,033 --> 00:23:41,797 I read Dr. Quantum comics. Everybody thinks it's just kid stuff, but I know it's real. 295 00:23:41,902 --> 00:23:44,544 That's how I do my magic on the court. 296 00:23:44,653 --> 00:23:48,541 Yeah, I always choose the wonder boy first. 297 00:23:48,645 --> 00:23:51,893 - He's got the weirding way. - Well, Dr. Quantum says everybody's got it. 298 00:23:51,999 --> 00:23:54,206 Everybody's doing it. 299 00:23:54,314 --> 00:23:57,733 Doing it constantly, each and every time you look. 300 00:23:57,835 --> 00:24:00,077 When you ain't lookin', it's like a wave. 301 00:24:00,183 --> 00:24:02,562 When you are lookin', it's like a particle. 302 00:24:02,665 --> 00:24:05,078 When you are not looking, there are waves of possibility. 303 00:24:05,182 --> 00:24:08,566 When you are looking, there are particles of experience. 304 00:24:08,670 --> 00:24:11,655 Aparticle, which we think of as a solid thing... 305 00:24:11,756 --> 00:24:14,466 really exists in a so-called ''superposition, '' 306 00:24:14,573 --> 00:24:18,027 a spread-out wave of possible locations... 307 00:24:18,129 --> 00:24:20,073 and it's in all of those at once. 308 00:24:20,175 --> 00:24:22,279 The instance you check on it... 309 00:24:22,389 --> 00:24:25,899 it snaps intojust one of those possible positions. 310 00:24:26,011 --> 00:24:28,390 Quantum superposition implies that... 311 00:24:28,494 --> 00:24:33,652 a particle can be in two or more places or states simultaneously. 312 00:24:33,760 --> 00:24:38,884 And this is a very bizarre concept, and one of the hallmarks of the quantum world. 313 00:24:38,992 --> 00:24:41,805 Superheroes use superposition... 314 00:24:41,911 --> 00:24:45,833 with the world being potential strips of reality until we choose. 315 00:24:45,936 --> 00:24:48,246 Heroes choose what they want-- 316 00:24:48,351 --> 00:24:52,308 being in many places at once, experiencing many possibilities all at once... 317 00:24:52,410 --> 00:24:55,052 and then collapsing on the one. 318 00:24:57,542 --> 00:25:01,522 The question is, how far down the rabbit hole do you wanna go? 319 00:25:40,476 --> 00:25:43,392 Nice shot. 320 00:25:43,495 --> 00:25:44,200 How can a system or an object be in two or more states at the same time? 321 00:25:44,200 --> 00:25:48,214 How can a system or an object be in two or more states at the same time? 322 00:25:48,325 --> 00:25:51,905 It's very easy-- Instead of thinking of things as things. 323 00:25:52,016 --> 00:25:57,482 We all have a habit of thinking that everything around us is already a thing... 324 00:25:57,583 --> 00:26:02,341 existing without my input, without my choice. 325 00:26:02,447 --> 00:26:04,357 You have to banish that kind of thinking. 326 00:26:04,460 --> 00:26:06,496 Instead,you really have to recognize... 327 00:26:06,606 --> 00:26:09,180 that even the material world around us-- 328 00:26:09,289 --> 00:26:14,688 the chairs, the tables, the rooms, the carpet-- camera included-- 329 00:26:14,791 --> 00:26:19,686 all of these are nothing but possible movements of consciousness. 330 00:26:19,788 --> 00:26:23,243 And I'm choosing moment to moment out of those movements... 331 00:26:23,344 --> 00:26:27,964 to bring my actual experience into manifestation. 332 00:26:28,074 --> 00:26:30,922 This is the only radical thinking that you need to do. 333 00:26:31,025 --> 00:26:33,336 But it is so radical-- It's so difficult... 334 00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:36,425 because our tendency is that the world is already out there... 335 00:26:36,526 --> 00:26:40,037 independent of my experience. 336 00:26:40,149 --> 00:26:43,604 It is not. Quantum physics has been so clear about it. 337 00:26:43,705 --> 00:26:46,084 Heisenberg himself, codiscoverer of quantum physics... 338 00:26:46,187 --> 00:26:50,807 said atoms are not things, they're only tendencies. 339 00:26:50,916 --> 00:26:54,026 So, instead of thinking of things... 340 00:26:54,137 --> 00:26:56,710 you have to think of possibilities. 341 00:26:56,820 --> 00:26:59,324 They're all possibilities of consciousness. 342 00:26:59,437 --> 00:27:03,451 You now can see in numerous labs around the United States... 343 00:27:03,562 --> 00:27:08,114 objects that are large enough to be seen by the naked eye... 344 00:27:08,225 --> 00:27:11,107 and they are in two places simultaneously. 345 00:27:11,209 --> 00:27:14,664 You can actually take a photograph of that. 346 00:27:14,765 --> 00:27:19,820 Now, I suppose if you showed a photograph, they'd say, ''Oh. Great. 347 00:27:19,931 --> 00:27:23,511 ''Here's this nice blob of colored light, and I see there's... 348 00:27:23,621 --> 00:27:26,869 ''a bit of it over here and another bit-- So you've got a picture of two dots. 349 00:27:26,975 --> 00:27:28,885 What's the big deal?'' 350 00:27:28,988 --> 00:27:31,664 You say, ''Look right in the chamber. You can see it right there.'' 351 00:27:31,771 --> 00:27:34,516 ''I see two things there.'' ''No, no. That's not two things-- 352 00:27:34,622 --> 00:27:38,442 That's one thing. It's the same thing in two places.'' 353 00:27:39,822 --> 00:27:43,608 I'm not sure that people's jaw would drop about it... 354 00:27:43,713 --> 00:27:46,287 because I think-- 355 00:27:46,396 --> 00:27:48,375 I don't think people really believe it. 356 00:27:48,476 --> 00:27:52,765 And I don't mean that people say, ''Oh, you're lying,'' or ''Oh, the scientists are confused.'' 357 00:27:52,870 --> 00:27:58,131 I-I think it is so mysterious that you can't even understand how amazing it is. 358 00:27:58,236 --> 00:28:01,416 And then, furthermore, you've seen Star Trek and whatnot. 359 00:28:01,524 --> 00:28:04,200 ''Beam me up, Scotty.'' So it all seems sort of... 360 00:28:04,308 --> 00:28:06,916 ''Oh, well, what does that really mean?'' 361 00:28:07,025 --> 00:28:09,803 But you've gotta really stop and think about what that means-- 362 00:28:09,910 --> 00:28:12,986 That it's the same object and it's in two places at once. 363 00:28:13,096 --> 00:28:16,573 When people tinker in the lab, and they get angry about things, and they have lunch... 364 00:28:16,685 --> 00:28:18,721 and they go home and they lead their lives... 365 00:28:18,833 --> 00:28:21,440 just as though nothing utterly astounding is happening... 366 00:28:21,549 --> 00:28:23,527 because that's how you have to go about it-- 367 00:28:23,629 --> 00:28:27,849 And yet, there's this completely amazing magic... 368 00:28:27,955 --> 00:28:31,741 sitting right in front of your eyes. 369 00:28:31,847 --> 00:28:36,307 Quantum physics calculates only possibilities... 370 00:28:36,409 --> 00:28:40,526 but if we accept this, then the question immediately comes... 371 00:28:40,635 --> 00:28:43,711 who, what, chooses among these possibilities... 372 00:28:43,822 --> 00:28:46,772 to bring the actual event of experience? 373 00:28:46,874 --> 00:28:52,306 So we directly, immediately see that consciousness must be involved. 374 00:28:52,409 --> 00:28:56,125 The observer cannot be ignored. 375 00:28:59,050 --> 00:29:03,006 We know what an observer does from a point of view of quantum physics... 376 00:29:03,109 --> 00:29:07,935 but we don't know who or what the observer actually is. 377 00:29:08,039 --> 00:29:11,149 Doesn't mean we haven't tried to find an answer. We've looked. 378 00:29:11,260 --> 00:29:15,582 We've gone inside of your head. We've gone into every orifice you have... 379 00:29:15,687 --> 00:29:17,597 to find something called an observer. 380 00:29:17,700 --> 00:29:20,273 And there's nobody home. There's nobody in the brain. 381 00:29:20,383 --> 00:29:22,487 There's nobody in the cortical regions of the brain. 382 00:29:22,597 --> 00:29:25,582 There's nobody in the subcortical regions or the limbic regions of the brain. 383 00:29:25,683 --> 00:29:28,164 There's nobody there called an observer. 384 00:29:28,266 --> 00:29:32,990 And yet, we all have this experience of being something called an observer... 385 00:29:33,095 --> 00:29:35,005 observing the world out there. 386 00:29:35,108 --> 00:29:37,418 Is this the observer... 387 00:29:37,524 --> 00:29:41,675 and which is so intricate to understanding... 388 00:29:41,783 --> 00:29:44,093 the wacky, weird world... 389 00:29:44,199 --> 00:29:49,757 of quantum particles and how they react? 390 00:29:49,868 --> 00:29:54,294 Is this then the observer? 391 00:29:57,481 --> 00:30:01,095 In my modeling, the observer is the spirit... 392 00:30:01,205 --> 00:30:04,521 inside the four-layer biobodysuit. 393 00:30:04,626 --> 00:30:09,452 And so, it's like the ghost in the machine. 394 00:30:09,557 --> 00:30:14,647 It is the consciousness that's driving the vehicle... 395 00:30:14,756 --> 00:30:17,100 and it is observing the surround. 396 00:30:17,204 --> 00:30:23,174 The four layers of the biobodysuit have all kinds of sensory systems... 397 00:30:23,276 --> 00:30:25,986 to pick up signatures from the surround. 398 00:30:37,330 --> 00:30:39,365 Aw. Good boy. 399 00:31:14,060 --> 00:31:16,942 Where the hell are you? I've got a studio full of people... 400 00:31:17,045 --> 00:31:18,989 but, oh, my God.! 401 00:31:19,091 --> 00:31:22,167 There's no photographer. 402 00:31:22,278 --> 00:31:24,725 Where, oh, where can she be? 403 00:31:24,827 --> 00:31:29,253 Aliens? Loch Ness monster? 404 00:31:29,355 --> 00:31:32,203 Or a hot date? 405 00:31:32,306 --> 00:31:35,119 In Washington, D.C., the so-called murder capital of the world... 406 00:31:35,225 --> 00:31:38,232 there was a big experiment in the summer of 1993... 407 00:31:38,344 --> 00:31:41,695 where 4,000 volunteers came from a hundred countries... 408 00:31:41,799 --> 00:31:45,882 to collectively meditate for long periods of time throughout the day. 409 00:31:45,992 --> 00:31:49,640 It was predicted in advance that with such a sized group... 410 00:31:49,749 --> 00:31:52,459 you would have a 25% drop in violent crime... 411 00:31:52,567 --> 00:31:55,677 as defined by the F.B.I. in Washington that summer. 412 00:31:55,787 --> 00:31:59,709 Well, the chief of police went on television saying that... 413 00:31:59,812 --> 00:32:02,419 ''Look. It's gonna take two feet of snow... 414 00:32:02,529 --> 00:32:06,349 to reduce crime by 25% in Washington, D.C. this summer.'' 415 00:32:06,454 --> 00:32:11,108 But by the end, the police department became a collaborator and author of this study... 416 00:32:11,217 --> 00:32:16,775 because the results in fact showed a 25% drop in violent crime in Washington, D.C.... 417 00:32:16,885 --> 00:32:20,396 which we could predict on the basis of 48 previous studies... 418 00:32:20,507 --> 00:32:23,046 that had already been done on a smaller scale. 419 00:32:23,157 --> 00:32:26,268 This leads naturally to wonder do people-- 420 00:32:26,378 --> 00:32:29,729 are people affecting the world of reality that they see? 421 00:32:29,832 --> 00:32:31,742 You betcha they are. 422 00:32:31,845 --> 00:32:35,264 Every single one of us affects the reality that we see... 423 00:32:35,367 --> 00:32:39,188 even if we try to hide from that and play victim. 424 00:32:39,292 --> 00:32:41,328 We all are doin' it. 425 00:32:43,787 --> 00:32:47,709 Just tell me where you are. 426 00:32:47,812 --> 00:32:49,722 Good. But hurry, will ya, please? 427 00:32:49,824 --> 00:32:53,575 - Because these models are giving me a headache. - Ten minutes! 428 00:32:57,371 --> 00:33:00,081 Oh-- 429 00:33:30,780 --> 00:33:36,339 Our subway exhibit comes to us from Japan and Mr. Masaru Emoto. 430 00:33:36,448 --> 00:33:39,261 Mr. Emoto became terribly interested... 431 00:33:39,367 --> 00:33:44,090 in the molecular structure of water and what affects it. 432 00:33:44,197 --> 00:33:48,885 Now, water is the most receptive of the four elements. 433 00:33:48,994 --> 00:33:53,649 Mr. Emoto thought perhaps it would respond to nonphysical events. 434 00:33:53,757 --> 00:33:58,114 So he set up a series of studies, applied mental stimuli... 435 00:33:58,217 --> 00:34:01,568 and photographed it with a dark field microscope. 436 00:34:01,673 --> 00:34:07,574 This first picture is a picture of water from the Fujiwara Dam. 437 00:34:09,321 --> 00:34:12,775 And this picture is the same water... 438 00:34:12,876 --> 00:34:16,959 after receiving a blessing from a Zen Buddhist monk. 439 00:34:21,228 --> 00:34:23,802 Now in this next series of pictures... 440 00:34:23,911 --> 00:34:29,035 Mr. Emoto printed out words, taped them to bottles of distilled water... 441 00:34:29,145 --> 00:34:31,489 and left them out overnight. 442 00:34:31,593 --> 00:34:36,579 This first photograph is the picture of the pure distilled water-- 443 00:34:36,692 --> 00:34:38,602 just the essence of itself. 444 00:34:38,704 --> 00:34:41,620 These subsequent photographs, as you can see, are each different. 445 00:34:41,723 --> 00:34:43,999 This is the ''Chi of Love.'' 446 00:34:46,519 --> 00:34:50,339 And we move along here to ''Thank You. '' 447 00:34:50,444 --> 00:34:54,024 And you can see where he taped that, uh, to this bottle here. 448 00:34:54,134 --> 00:34:56,810 But if you read Japanese, you already knew that. 449 00:35:00,071 --> 00:35:04,051 Now, Mr. Emoto speaks of the thought or intent... 450 00:35:04,163 --> 00:35:06,976 being the driving force in all of this. 451 00:35:07,081 --> 00:35:11,301 The science of how that actually affects the molecules is unknown... 452 00:35:11,409 --> 00:35:15,263 except to the water molecules, of course. 453 00:35:15,367 --> 00:35:18,283 And it's really fascinating when you keep in mind... 454 00:35:18,385 --> 00:35:21,370 that 90% of our bodies are water. 455 00:35:32,541 --> 00:35:34,988 Makes you wonder, doesn't it? 456 00:35:35,089 --> 00:35:38,199 If thoughts can do that to water... 457 00:35:38,310 --> 00:35:40,952 imagine what our thoughts can do to us. 458 00:35:57,999 --> 00:36:01,144 Absolutely thought alone can completely change the body. 459 00:36:01,253 --> 00:36:06,342 Most people don't affect reality in a consistent, substantial way... 460 00:36:06,452 --> 00:36:09,631 because they don't believe they can. 461 00:36:09,739 --> 00:36:12,724 They write an intention... 462 00:36:12,825 --> 00:36:15,901 and then they erase it, because they think that's silly-- 463 00:36:16,012 --> 00:36:20,094 I mean-- I can't do that. And then they write it again, and then they erase it. 464 00:36:20,205 --> 00:36:22,847 So time average, it's a very small effect. 465 00:36:22,955 --> 00:36:28,148 And it really comes down to the fact that they believe they can't do it. 466 00:36:28,255 --> 00:36:31,400 If you accept with every rudiment of your being... 467 00:36:31,508 --> 00:36:33,887 that you will walk on water, will it happen? 468 00:36:33,990 --> 00:36:35,900 Yes, it will. 469 00:36:36,003 --> 00:36:39,583 But you know, it's, uh-- it's like positive thinking. 470 00:36:39,693 --> 00:36:42,506 It's a wonderful idea, positive thinking... 471 00:36:42,611 --> 00:36:48,375 but what it usually means is that I have a little smear of positive thinking... 472 00:36:48,481 --> 00:36:52,232 covering a whole mass of negative thinking. 473 00:36:52,339 --> 00:36:54,877 So thinking positive is not really thinking positive. 474 00:36:54,989 --> 00:36:58,739 It's just disguising the negative thinking that we have. 475 00:36:58,846 --> 00:37:03,741 When we think of things, then we make the reality more concrete than it is... 476 00:37:03,844 --> 00:37:05,948 and that's why we become stuck. 477 00:37:06,058 --> 00:37:08,059 We become stuck in the sameness of reality. 478 00:37:08,171 --> 00:37:12,654 Because if reality is concrete, obviously, I am insignificant. I cannot really change it. 479 00:37:12,766 --> 00:37:18,428 But if reality is my possibility-- possibility of consciousness itself-- 480 00:37:18,535 --> 00:37:22,046 then immediately comes the question of how can I change it? 481 00:37:22,158 --> 00:37:24,503 How can I make it better? How can I make it happier? 482 00:37:24,607 --> 00:37:28,496 You see how we are extending the image of ourselves? 483 00:37:28,598 --> 00:37:31,778 In the old thinking, I cannot change anything... 484 00:37:31,885 --> 00:37:35,168 because I don't have any role at all in reality. 485 00:37:35,273 --> 00:37:39,459 Reality is already there. It's material objects moving in their own way... 486 00:37:39,567 --> 00:37:41,705 from deterministic laws... 487 00:37:41,815 --> 00:37:46,435 and mathematics determines what they will do in a given situation. 488 00:37:46,543 --> 00:37:50,294 I, the experiencer, have no role at all. 489 00:37:50,402 --> 00:37:53,947 In the new view, yes, mathematics can give us something. 490 00:37:54,057 --> 00:37:59,683 It gives us the possibilities that all these movements can assume. 491 00:37:59,793 --> 00:38:05,523 But it cannot give us the actual experience that I'll be having in my consciousness. 492 00:38:05,630 --> 00:38:07,699 I choose that experience. 493 00:38:07,810 --> 00:38:12,499 And therefore, literally, I create my own reality. 494 00:38:12,606 --> 00:38:17,067 It may sound like a tremendous, bombastic claim by some New Agey... 495 00:38:17,168 --> 00:38:20,050 without any understanding of physics whatsoever... 496 00:38:20,154 --> 00:38:22,601 but really quantum physics is telling us that. 497 00:38:22,770 --> 00:38:24,680 ^^^^ 498 00:38:27,499 --> 00:38:29,706 ^^^^ 499 00:38:37,763 --> 00:38:40,176 Hey! How was the shoot? 500 00:38:40,279 --> 00:38:42,818 Sucked. 501 00:38:44,438 --> 00:38:46,942 ^^ 502 00:38:47,055 --> 00:38:51,539 Your boss called. He's worried about you. 503 00:38:57,453 --> 00:38:59,659 ^^ 504 00:39:02,787 --> 00:39:06,137 Amanda, I wanna thank you for letting me stay here. 505 00:39:07,718 --> 00:39:10,462 I know I'm a bit much sometimes... 506 00:39:10,569 --> 00:39:15,155 and that it's been tough after Bob and all. 507 00:39:15,264 --> 00:39:18,180 And, um,you'vejust been so wonderful. 508 00:39:18,283 --> 00:39:20,387 I mean, I make a mess and-- 509 00:39:20,497 --> 00:39:23,916 Well, I clean up afterwards, but it's not really your style. 510 00:39:25,394 --> 00:39:27,875 Sometimes I think you make me sane. 511 00:39:27,977 --> 00:39:30,585 Me? 512 00:39:30,694 --> 00:39:34,011 The day I make someone sane, they're in trouble. 513 00:39:35,927 --> 00:39:39,311 Anyway, um... 514 00:39:39,415 --> 00:39:43,429 I made you something as a thank-you gift. 515 00:39:51,189 --> 00:39:53,601 Open it. 516 00:40:06,250 --> 00:40:09,063 I went through your pictures and picked my favorite ones. 517 00:40:09,167 --> 00:40:13,021 And it took me forever because there are so many good ones. 518 00:40:16,782 --> 00:40:19,492 This-- 519 00:40:19,599 --> 00:40:24,025 That's for all the wonderful photos you will be taking. 520 00:40:36,304 --> 00:40:39,552 - Oh! - I've had a strange day. 521 00:40:42,174 --> 00:40:44,084 Thank you. 522 00:41:01,393 --> 00:41:03,669 What is my life? Why is your life? 523 00:41:03,775 --> 00:41:05,879 What is the purpose of life? 524 00:41:05,990 --> 00:41:07,968 Where am I going? What happens when I die? 525 00:41:08,068 --> 00:41:11,785 - Why is there anything at all? - What is reality? 526 00:41:11,893 --> 00:41:14,271 It makes you wonder, doesn't it? 527 00:41:16,656 --> 00:41:19,766 If thoughts can do that to water... 528 00:41:19,875 --> 00:41:22,688 imagine what our thoughts can do to us. 529 00:41:24,874 --> 00:41:29,026 - These-- - Reality comes down to experiences. 530 00:41:29,134 --> 00:41:33,148 - Is this-- - Successful-- 531 00:41:33,260 --> 00:41:35,936 Have you ever thought about what thoughts are made of?. 532 00:41:36,043 --> 00:41:38,548 Is there a substance of thought? 533 00:41:40,136 --> 00:41:42,812 I guess itjust depends on what you think is real. 534 00:41:42,919 --> 00:41:46,430 The world being possible timelines of reality... 535 00:41:48,086 --> 00:41:50,190 until we choose. 536 00:41:50,299 --> 00:41:54,256 Are all realities in the quantum field existing simultaneously? 537 00:41:54,358 --> 00:41:57,468 My definition of an addiction is something-- 538 00:41:57,577 --> 00:42:01,466 - Something that you can't stop. - - There are different worlds in which we live. 539 00:42:01,569 --> 00:42:05,996 There's the macroscopic world that we see. There's the world of our cells. 540 00:42:06,098 --> 00:42:09,312 There's the world of our atoms. There's the world of our nuclei. 541 00:42:09,419 --> 00:42:12,060 These are each totally different worlds. 542 00:42:12,169 --> 00:42:14,479 They have their own language. They have their own mathematics. 543 00:42:14,584 --> 00:42:17,728 They're notjust smaller-- Each is totally different. 544 00:42:17,838 --> 00:42:21,257 But they're complementary, because I am my atoms... 545 00:42:21,359 --> 00:42:23,269 but I am also my cells. 546 00:42:23,372 --> 00:42:25,282 I'm also my macroscopic physiology. 547 00:42:25,384 --> 00:42:28,895 It's all true. They're just different levels of truth. 548 00:42:29,007 --> 00:42:32,987 The deepest level of truth uncovered by science and by philosophy... 549 00:42:33,100 --> 00:42:35,776 is the fundamental truth of unity. 550 00:42:35,884 --> 00:42:39,268 At that deepest subnuclear level of our reality... 551 00:42:39,372 --> 00:42:41,750 you and I are literally one-- 552 00:42:41,854 --> 00:42:44,392 one-- one-- one-- 553 00:42:58,693 --> 00:43:01,701 I wake up in the morning... 554 00:43:01,813 --> 00:43:05,529 and I consciously create my day the way I want it to happen. 555 00:43:05,636 --> 00:43:08,780 Now, sometimes... 556 00:43:08,890 --> 00:43:13,544 because my mind is examining all the things that I need to get done... 557 00:43:13,653 --> 00:43:17,003 it takes me a little bit to settle down and get to the point... 558 00:43:17,108 --> 00:43:20,288 of where I am actually intentionally creating my day. 559 00:43:20,395 --> 00:43:23,609 But here's the thing. When I create my day... 560 00:43:23,716 --> 00:43:28,404 and out of nowhere little things happen... 561 00:43:28,513 --> 00:43:32,631 that are so unexplainable... 562 00:43:32,739 --> 00:43:36,959 I know that they are the process or the result of my creation. 563 00:43:37,066 --> 00:43:41,720 And the more I do that, the more I build a neural net in my brain... 564 00:43:41,829 --> 00:43:44,607 that I accept that that's possible... 565 00:43:44,714 --> 00:43:48,568 it gives me the power and the incentive to do it the next day. 566 00:43:48,672 --> 00:43:52,960 ^^^^ 567 00:43:53,066 --> 00:43:57,926 In addiction, we have a supreme, beautiful opportunity... 568 00:43:58,030 --> 00:44:00,272 to decipher the difference between... 569 00:44:00,378 --> 00:44:05,170 our intangibility of our nobleness of character... 570 00:44:05,275 --> 00:44:09,129 and the day-to-day business of how that character is revealed... 571 00:44:09,234 --> 00:44:13,316 in a three-dimensional world through our bodies. 572 00:44:13,426 --> 00:44:15,873 ^^^^ 573 00:44:29,024 --> 00:44:31,768 ^^^^ 574 00:44:31,875 --> 00:44:35,591 - I hate weddings. - And what we will learn... 575 00:44:35,699 --> 00:44:37,609 is that addiction is... 576 00:44:37,711 --> 00:44:42,068 the feeling of a chemical rush... 577 00:44:42,173 --> 00:44:45,923 that is cascaded through the bodies... 578 00:44:46,030 --> 00:44:50,548 through a whole assortment of glands and ductless glands... 579 00:44:50,658 --> 00:44:53,471 and through the spinal fluid-- 580 00:44:53,577 --> 00:44:56,961 a feeling that some would call... 581 00:44:57,066 --> 00:44:59,708 a sexual fantasy. 582 00:44:59,816 --> 00:45:05,009 It only takes one sexual fantasy for a man to have a hard-on. 583 00:45:05,116 --> 00:45:07,792 In other words, it only takes one thought here... 584 00:45:07,900 --> 00:45:11,354 for a man to have an erection in his member. 585 00:45:11,455 --> 00:45:15,035 And yet, there was nothing outside of him that gave him that. 586 00:45:15,145 --> 00:45:18,221 It was what was within him that gave him that. 587 00:45:18,365 --> 00:45:22,653 - ^^^^ - Oh. Oh. 588 00:45:22,759 --> 00:45:25,297 Hey, Amanda. I-I didn't know you were there. 589 00:45:26,550 --> 00:45:29,157 Guilty. 590 00:45:29,267 --> 00:45:31,177 A wedding? 591 00:45:31,279 --> 00:45:33,521 Come on, Frank! 592 00:45:33,627 --> 00:45:36,635 This is a good assignment, if you'd see it that way. 593 00:45:36,746 --> 00:45:38,656 What's to see? 594 00:45:38,759 --> 00:45:41,332 ''I do.'' They did. 595 00:45:41,443 --> 00:45:44,291 Aw, God, Amanda. I mean, y-you live in your past... 596 00:45:44,394 --> 00:45:47,711 and everything with you is about ''what happened.'' 597 00:45:47,815 --> 00:45:52,172 You hate churches. You hate weddings. You hate guys. 598 00:45:54,793 --> 00:45:56,703 Now I want you to go scope it out. 599 00:45:57,812 --> 00:46:00,224 Don't need to. I got married there. 600 00:46:00,327 --> 00:46:03,873 I know. I took the pictures, remember? 601 00:46:03,983 --> 00:46:06,831 You got too many memories clouding your vision. 602 00:46:06,935 --> 00:46:08,845 Oh, Amanda, Amanda, Amanda. 603 00:46:08,947 --> 00:46:12,058 You know you're the best technical photographer I have. 604 00:46:12,167 --> 00:46:15,713 And I wanna have some great pictures. 605 00:46:15,823 --> 00:46:17,768 You know what? You need a good Polish wedding. 606 00:46:17,870 --> 00:46:20,980 - And watch out for those good Catholic boys, huh? - You mean the priests? 607 00:46:21,090 --> 00:46:24,772 - Come on. Get outta here. - Bye. 608 00:46:26,625 --> 00:46:28,535 When I was younger, um... 609 00:46:28,638 --> 00:46:31,211 I had lots of ideas about what God was. 610 00:46:31,321 --> 00:46:34,031 And now I realize I'm not conscious enough... 611 00:46:34,139 --> 00:46:38,256 to truly understand what that concept means. 612 00:46:42,558 --> 00:46:46,274 That I am at one with the great being that made me and brought me here... 613 00:46:46,381 --> 00:46:49,995 and that formed the galaxies and the universes, et cetera-- 614 00:46:50,104 --> 00:46:52,083 how did that get taken out of religion? 615 00:46:52,184 --> 00:46:54,186 It was not hard. 616 00:47:08,855 --> 00:47:14,253 Most of the problems that religion and various philosophical movements... 617 00:47:14,356 --> 00:47:16,963 down through the centuries have produced... 618 00:47:17,073 --> 00:47:20,893 have been errors because that's where they're started-- 619 00:47:20,998 --> 00:47:24,074 That God is a distinct separate being from us... 620 00:47:24,184 --> 00:47:28,576 to whom I must offer worship, whom I must cultivate... 621 00:47:28,679 --> 00:47:34,649 humor, please and hope to attain a reward from at the very end of my life. 622 00:47:34,750 --> 00:47:37,460 That is not what God is. 623 00:47:37,568 --> 00:47:39,980 That is a blasphemy. 624 00:47:40,084 --> 00:47:41,994 God is such a broad thing... 625 00:47:42,096 --> 00:47:45,138 um, some parts of which-- most of the parts of which... 626 00:47:45,249 --> 00:47:48,291 that are associated with organized religion... 627 00:47:48,401 --> 00:47:50,506 is something that I sort of recoil at. 628 00:47:50,616 --> 00:47:54,196 It's something I think has done a lot of harm to the world, done harm to women... 629 00:47:54,305 --> 00:47:59,464 done harm to oppressed peoples, done harm to the World Trade Center. 630 00:47:59,572 --> 00:48:01,676 And yet, and the same point... 631 00:48:01,786 --> 00:48:06,440 we have the epitome of a great science. 632 00:48:06,549 --> 00:48:10,094 The closest science has ever come... 633 00:48:10,205 --> 00:48:13,487 to explaining Jesus' interpretation that... 634 00:48:13,593 --> 00:48:17,207 the mustard seed was larger than the kingdom of heaven... 635 00:48:17,316 --> 00:48:23,252 and the only science that can fit into that analogy is quantum physics. 636 00:48:30,565 --> 00:48:35,929 Now, we have-- 637 00:48:36,033 --> 00:48:39,075 we have great technology... 638 00:48:39,186 --> 00:48:41,760 from antigravity magnets... 639 00:48:41,869 --> 00:48:45,449 and magnetic fields-- zero-point energy-- 640 00:48:45,559 --> 00:48:49,413 We have all that, and we still have this ugly, superstitious... 641 00:48:49,517 --> 00:48:51,553 backwater concept of God. 642 00:49:08,737 --> 00:49:11,722 People fall into line very readily when they're threatened... 643 00:49:11,822 --> 00:49:15,436 by these cosmic sentences of everlasting punishment. 644 00:49:15,546 --> 00:49:17,582 But this is not how God is. 645 00:49:17,693 --> 00:49:22,817 And once you start to question the traditional images, caricatures of God... 646 00:49:22,926 --> 00:49:25,670 people feel you are an agnostic or an atheist... 647 00:49:25,777 --> 00:49:30,431 or a subverter of the social order. 648 00:49:30,540 --> 00:49:35,194 God must be greater than the greatest of human weaknesses... 649 00:49:35,303 --> 00:49:37,213 and indeed... 650 00:49:37,315 --> 00:49:39,762 the greatness of human skill. 651 00:49:39,865 --> 00:49:44,794 That God must even transcend our most remarkable... 652 00:49:44,896 --> 00:49:47,938 to emulate nature in its absolute splendor. 653 00:49:50,196 --> 00:49:55,491 How can any man or woman sin against such a greatness of mind? 654 00:49:55,596 --> 00:50:00,720 How can any one little carbon unit... 655 00:50:00,829 --> 00:50:05,689 on Earth in the backwaters of... 656 00:50:05,793 --> 00:50:09,613 indeed, the Milky Way, the boondocks... 657 00:50:09,717 --> 00:50:13,068 betray God Almighty? 658 00:50:13,173 --> 00:50:15,151 That is impossible. 659 00:50:15,253 --> 00:50:18,969 The height of arrogance is the height of control... 660 00:50:19,077 --> 00:50:21,787 of those who create God in their own image. 661 00:50:34,372 --> 00:50:36,442 I now present to you... 662 00:50:36,552 --> 00:50:41,241 - Mr. and Mrs. Richard ''Buck'' Filipowski. - ^^^^ 663 00:50:51,914 --> 00:50:55,665 ^^^^ 664 00:51:01,306 --> 00:51:03,948 ^^^^ 665 00:51:04,057 --> 00:51:07,271 Brain, when it fires its thoughts... 666 00:51:07,378 --> 00:51:12,341 is likened unto the landscape of a thundercloud. 667 00:51:12,443 --> 00:51:15,221 And the synaptic cleft is the sky between... 668 00:51:15,327 --> 00:51:20,851 the storm and the Earth-- the Earth receptor sight. 669 00:51:20,963 --> 00:51:25,891 And you see this foreboding dark cloud... 670 00:51:25,994 --> 00:51:28,944 boiling in the sky... 671 00:51:29,046 --> 00:51:32,226 and you see electrical impulses moving through it... 672 00:51:32,333 --> 00:51:34,540 veins of electric light... 673 00:51:34,648 --> 00:51:38,731 and then you see it hit the ground. 674 00:51:38,840 --> 00:51:42,820 The brain looks like a thunderstorm-- 675 00:51:42,933 --> 00:51:46,890 when it is presenting a coherent thought. 676 00:51:46,992 --> 00:51:51,247 So no one is ever seeing the thought. 677 00:51:51,352 --> 00:51:54,165 What they do see in neurophysics... 678 00:51:54,270 --> 00:51:57,987 is that they see a storm raging... 679 00:51:58,094 --> 00:52:00,599 around different quadrants of the brain. 680 00:52:00,711 --> 00:52:05,331 Those are areas that are mapped in the body... 681 00:52:05,440 --> 00:52:08,116 and what a person must be responding to-- 682 00:52:08,225 --> 00:52:11,804 a holographic image-- 683 00:52:11,914 --> 00:52:15,333 rage, murder, hate... 684 00:52:15,436 --> 00:52:17,917 compassion, love. 685 00:52:18,019 --> 00:52:20,661 The brain does not know the difference between... 686 00:52:20,770 --> 00:52:24,624 what it sees in its environment and what it remembers... 687 00:52:24,727 --> 00:52:28,478 because the same specific neural nets are then firing. 688 00:52:28,585 --> 00:52:32,267 The brain is made up of tiny nerve cells called ''neurons. '' 689 00:52:32,375 --> 00:52:34,651 These neurons have tiny branches that reach out... 690 00:52:34,757 --> 00:52:37,673 and connect to other neurons to form a neural net. 691 00:52:37,776 --> 00:52:41,790 Each place where they connect is incubated into a thought or a memory. 692 00:52:41,902 --> 00:52:46,053 Now, the brain builds up all its concepts by the law of associative memory. 693 00:52:46,161 --> 00:52:49,009 For example, ideas, thoughts and feelings... 694 00:52:49,113 --> 00:52:52,361 are all constructed and interconnected in this neural net... 695 00:52:52,467 --> 00:52:55,715 and all have a possible relationship with one another. 696 00:52:55,822 --> 00:52:57,926 The concept and the feeling of love, for instance... 697 00:52:58,035 --> 00:53:00,609 is stored in this vast neural net. 698 00:53:00,718 --> 00:53:04,195 But we build the concept of love from many other different ideas. 699 00:53:04,308 --> 00:53:07,350 Some people have love connected to disappointment. 700 00:53:07,461 --> 00:53:10,571 When they think about love, they experience the memory of pain... 701 00:53:10,681 --> 00:53:13,425 sorrow, anger and even rage. 702 00:53:13,533 --> 00:53:16,243 Rage may be linked to hurt, which may be linked to a person... 703 00:53:16,349 --> 00:53:20,272 which then is connected back to love. 704 00:53:20,375 --> 00:53:25,063 We build up models of how we see the world outside of us. 705 00:53:25,172 --> 00:53:30,502 And the more information that we have, the more we refine our model one way or another. 706 00:53:30,605 --> 00:53:34,185 And what we ultimately do is tell ourselves a story... 707 00:53:34,296 --> 00:53:36,903 about what the outside world is. 708 00:53:37,012 --> 00:53:42,708 Any information that we process, any information that we take in from the environment... 709 00:53:42,815 --> 00:53:47,573 is always colored by the experiences that we've had... 710 00:53:47,679 --> 00:53:51,796 and an emotional response that we're having to what we're bringing in. 711 00:53:51,905 --> 00:53:56,995 Who is in the driver's seat when we control our emotions or we respond to our emotions? 712 00:53:57,104 --> 00:54:01,359 We know physiologically that nerve cells that fire together wire together. 713 00:54:01,465 --> 00:54:05,926 If you practice something over and over, those nerve cells have a long-term relationship. 714 00:54:06,026 --> 00:54:10,383 If you get angry on a daily basis, if you get frustrated on a daily basis... 715 00:54:10,488 --> 00:54:12,866 if you suffer on a daily basis... 716 00:54:12,970 --> 00:54:17,121 if you give reason for the victimization in your life... 717 00:54:17,230 --> 00:54:21,084 you're rewiring and reintegrating that neural net on a daily basis... 718 00:54:21,188 --> 00:54:24,196 and that neural net now has a long-term relationship... 719 00:54:24,307 --> 00:54:27,383 with all those other nerve cells called an ''identity.'' 720 00:54:27,494 --> 00:54:32,584 We also know that nerve cells that don't fire together no longer wire together. 721 00:54:32,693 --> 00:54:35,267 They lose their long-term relationship... 722 00:54:35,376 --> 00:54:37,286 because every time we interrupt... 723 00:54:37,389 --> 00:54:41,037 the thought process that produces a chemical response in the body-- 724 00:54:41,146 --> 00:54:46,166 every time we interrupt it, those nerve cells that are connected to each other... 725 00:54:46,278 --> 00:54:49,857 start breaking the long-term relationship. 726 00:54:49,968 --> 00:54:53,284 When we start interrupting and observing... 727 00:54:53,389 --> 00:54:57,037 not by stimulus and response and that automatic reaction... 728 00:54:57,146 --> 00:55:00,394 but by observing the effects it takes... 729 00:55:00,500 --> 00:55:05,018 then we are no longer the body-mind conscious emotional person... 730 00:55:05,129 --> 00:55:08,708 that's responding to its environment as if it is automatic. 731 00:55:08,886 --> 00:55:11,803 ^^^^ 732 00:55:20,827 --> 00:55:24,407 ^^^^ 733 00:55:24,516 --> 00:55:27,661 Does that mean emotions are good or emotions are bad? 734 00:55:27,770 --> 00:55:31,453 No, emotions are designed so that it reinforces chemically... 735 00:55:31,560 --> 00:55:33,870 something into long-term memory. 736 00:55:33,976 --> 00:55:36,389 That's why we have them. 737 00:55:36,491 --> 00:55:41,111 All emotion is is holographically imprinted chemicals. 738 00:55:41,221 --> 00:55:44,640 The most sophisticated pharmacy in the universe is in here. 739 00:55:44,743 --> 00:55:48,357 There's a part of the brain called the hypothalamus... 740 00:55:48,466 --> 00:55:50,638 and the hypothalamus is like a little mini factory... 741 00:55:50,747 --> 00:55:54,829 and it is a place that assembles certain chemicals... 742 00:55:54,940 --> 00:55:58,222 that matches certain emotions that we experience. 743 00:55:58,328 --> 00:56:01,210 And those particular chemicals are called 'peptides. '' 744 00:56:01,314 --> 00:56:04,928 They're small-chain amino acid sequences. 745 00:56:05,036 --> 00:56:07,106 The body's basically a carbon unit... 746 00:56:07,217 --> 00:56:11,196 that makes about 20 different amino acids altogether... 747 00:56:11,309 --> 00:56:13,516 to formulate its physical structure. 748 00:56:13,623 --> 00:56:16,127 The body is a protein-producing machine. 749 00:56:16,240 --> 00:56:21,203 In the hypothalamus, we take small-chain proteins called peptides... 750 00:56:21,305 --> 00:56:26,794 and we assemble them into certain neuropeptides or neurohormones... 751 00:56:26,906 --> 00:56:31,664 that match the emotional states that we experience on a daily basis. 752 00:56:31,770 --> 00:56:36,357 So there's chemicals for anger, and there's chemicals for sadness... 753 00:56:36,466 --> 00:56:38,776 and there's chemicals for victimization. 754 00:56:38,881 --> 00:56:41,923 There's chemicals for lust. There's a chemical that matches... 755 00:56:42,034 --> 00:56:44,813 every emotional state that we experience. 756 00:56:44,918 --> 00:56:50,751 And the moment that we experience that emotional state in our body or in our brain... 757 00:56:50,856 --> 00:56:54,572 that hypothalamus will immediately assemble the peptide... 758 00:56:54,680 --> 00:56:59,002 and then releases it through the pituitary into the bloodstream. 759 00:56:59,107 --> 00:57:01,749 The moment it makes it into the bloodstream... 760 00:57:01,857 --> 00:57:05,540 it finds its way to different centers or different parts of the body. 761 00:57:05,648 --> 00:57:08,461 Now, every single cell in the body... 762 00:57:08,567 --> 00:57:10,877 has these receptors on the outside. 763 00:57:10,981 --> 00:57:14,435 Now one cell can have thousands of receptors... 764 00:57:14,537 --> 00:57:19,021 studding its surface, kind of opening up to the outside world. 765 00:57:19,132 --> 00:57:21,877 And when a peptide docks on a cell... 766 00:57:21,983 --> 00:57:26,638 it literally, uh, like a key going into a lock... 767 00:57:26,747 --> 00:57:30,293 sits on the receptor surface and attaches to it... 768 00:57:30,402 --> 00:57:32,472 and kind of moves the receptor... 769 00:57:32,583 --> 00:57:36,905 and kind of like a doorbell buzzing, sends a signal into the cell. 770 00:57:37,011 --> 00:57:40,019 It's party time! 771 00:57:40,130 --> 00:57:43,779 ^^^^ 772 00:58:18,134 --> 00:58:20,982 ^^^^ 773 00:58:26,151 --> 00:58:28,221 What happens in adulthood... 774 00:58:28,331 --> 00:58:31,682 is that most of us who've had our glitches along the way... 775 00:58:31,786 --> 00:58:35,868 are operating in an emotionally detached place... 776 00:58:35,979 --> 00:58:40,942 or we're operating as if today were yesterday. 777 00:58:41,044 --> 00:58:43,652 - What is it? - Mixed. 778 00:58:58,822 --> 00:59:02,138 In either the disconnected place... 779 00:59:02,243 --> 00:59:04,621 or the overly emotional reactive place... 780 00:59:04,726 --> 00:59:09,312 because they've gone to an earlier time in reality... 781 00:59:10,662 --> 00:59:14,814 the person is not operating as an integrated whole. 782 00:59:17,136 --> 00:59:19,114 ^^^^ 783 00:59:37,597 --> 00:59:39,941 ^^^^ 784 00:59:41,085 --> 00:59:42,996 Along the outside of the cell... 785 00:59:43,098 --> 00:59:45,076 are these billions of receptor sites... 786 00:59:45,178 --> 00:59:48,860 that are really just receivers of incoming information. 787 00:59:48,968 --> 00:59:52,948 A receptor that has a peptide sitting in it, um... 788 00:59:53,060 --> 00:59:55,130 changes the cell in many ways. 789 00:59:55,241 --> 00:59:58,821 It sets off a whole cascade of biochemical events... 790 00:59:58,930 --> 01:00:03,448 some of which wind up with changes in the actual nucleus of the cell. 791 01:00:05,706 --> 01:00:07,844 Hi. 792 01:00:07,954 --> 01:00:10,366 When I grow up, I want to become a photographer just like you. 793 01:00:10,469 --> 01:00:12,607 - Oh? - Got any tips? 794 01:00:12,717 --> 01:00:15,290 - Take lots of pictures. - Thanks! 795 01:00:18,117 --> 01:00:20,153 Each cell is definitely alive... 796 01:00:20,263 --> 01:00:22,607 and, uh, each cell has a consciousness... 797 01:00:22,712 --> 01:00:24,850 particularly if we define consciousness... 798 01:00:24,960 --> 01:00:27,098 as the point of view of an observer. 799 01:00:27,207 --> 01:00:29,345 There is always the perspective of the cell. 800 01:00:38,544 --> 01:00:40,523 In fact, the cell is... 801 01:00:40,624 --> 01:00:43,232 the smallest unit of consciousness in the body. 802 01:00:43,341 --> 01:00:45,320 I'm hungry! 803 01:00:45,420 --> 01:00:46,863 - ^^^^ - Oh. Yeah. 804 01:00:46,863 --> 01:00:48,933 - ^^^^ - Oh. Yeah. 805 01:00:50,351 --> 01:00:52,261 Oh,yeah.! 806 01:00:52,364 --> 01:00:56,618 We've commandeered an entire serving platter. 807 01:01:02,728 --> 01:01:04,866 ^^^^ 808 01:01:07,089 --> 01:01:10,074 Yeah! Keep it coming. Keep it coming. Yeah. 809 01:01:11,182 --> 01:01:13,720 - Delicious. - Oh, yeah. Oh. 810 01:01:15,844 --> 01:01:18,760 Well, my definition of an addiction is something really simple: 811 01:01:19,835 --> 01:01:21,745 something that you can't stop. 812 01:01:21,848 --> 01:01:25,164 ^^^^ 813 01:01:25,270 --> 01:01:30,530 Don't make me suffer please. Oh, I hurt! 814 01:01:33,287 --> 01:01:35,791 We bring to ourselves situations that will fulfill... 815 01:01:35,902 --> 01:01:38,544 the biochemical craving of the cells of our body... 816 01:01:38,653 --> 01:01:41,329 by creating situations that meet our chemical needs. 817 01:01:41,437 --> 01:01:43,541 It always happens to me. 818 01:01:43,651 --> 01:01:45,629 - Every day! - Why me? 819 01:01:45,731 --> 01:01:49,047 And the addict will always need a little bit more... 820 01:01:49,152 --> 01:01:52,628 in order to get a rush or a high of what they're looking for chemically. 821 01:01:52,741 --> 01:01:56,126 Don't tell me to calm down! You're always bossing me around. 822 01:01:56,229 --> 01:02:00,117 So my definition really means that if you can't control your emotional state... 823 01:02:00,221 --> 01:02:02,131 you must be addicted to it. 824 01:02:02,234 --> 01:02:05,744 Oh, I knew this was gonna happen. 825 01:02:05,857 --> 01:02:09,105 That's not what we agreed upon.! You're not going to screw me-- 826 01:02:09,210 --> 01:02:10,880 Why don't you read the contract? 827 01:02:10,989 --> 01:02:13,230 - You won't do anything, so I will. - No, no, ma'am. 828 01:02:13,336 --> 01:02:16,755 Don't dip your half-eaten shrimp back into the cocktail sauce. 829 01:02:16,858 --> 01:02:19,969 Screw you and your health codes! I am the bride's sister. 830 01:02:20,078 --> 01:02:23,292 I'll stick my ass in the cocktail sauce if I damn well please. 831 01:02:23,399 --> 01:02:27,791 What are you standing there for? Get out and serve. Make sure everybody has a full platter. 832 01:02:27,893 --> 01:02:31,073 Fun, fun, fun.! Listen, Steven. 833 01:02:31,181 --> 01:02:33,754 You won't do anything about it, so-- 834 01:02:33,865 --> 01:02:35,935 I want to be a photographerjust like you. 835 01:02:41,747 --> 01:02:45,223 ^^^^ 836 01:02:58,719 --> 01:03:03,042 ^^^^ 837 01:03:03,147 --> 01:03:07,940 So how can anyone really say they're in love with a specific person... 838 01:03:08,044 --> 01:03:10,023 for example? 839 01:03:10,124 --> 01:03:12,766 They're only in love with the anticipation... 840 01:03:12,874 --> 01:03:16,191 of the emotions they're addicted to. 841 01:03:16,296 --> 01:03:21,225 Because the same person could fall out of favor the next week by not complying. 842 01:03:21,328 --> 01:03:24,313 My goodness, doesn't that change the landscape... 843 01:03:24,413 --> 01:03:29,342 of our emotional outlook on personal needs and identities? 844 01:03:29,512 --> 01:03:32,588 ^^^^ 845 01:03:41,688 --> 01:03:44,902 Oh, yeah. 846 01:03:45,008 --> 01:03:46,952 Oh! 847 01:03:47,055 --> 01:03:49,297 Amanda! 848 01:03:49,402 --> 01:03:51,712 ^^^^ 849 01:04:15,164 --> 01:04:18,709 How can you not fucking see? 850 01:04:20,497 --> 01:04:22,978 No! No, no, no, no. 851 01:04:23,080 --> 01:04:24,990 You got the-- the punch line wrong. 852 01:04:25,093 --> 01:04:27,905 It's a-- It's a photographer's joke. 853 01:04:28,010 --> 01:04:30,618 Go on about your, uh-- 854 01:04:30,727 --> 01:04:33,335 - Uh, music? - ^^^^ 855 01:04:37,906 --> 01:04:40,216 Are-- Are you okay? 856 01:04:40,321 --> 01:04:43,133 Well, I-- 857 01:04:43,239 --> 01:04:47,631 I saw that groom fucking some girl! 858 01:04:47,734 --> 01:04:49,712 Uh, when? 859 01:04:49,813 --> 01:04:53,793 Just now! 860 01:04:53,906 --> 01:04:57,188 I was with the, uh-- the groom-- 861 01:04:57,294 --> 01:04:59,272 Hey, I can read lips! 862 01:04:59,373 --> 01:05:04,302 Uh, I'm sorry. Uh, I was with the groom just now. 863 01:05:04,404 --> 01:05:07,320 Yeah, he loves Paulette. 864 01:05:07,423 --> 01:05:10,431 Where? 865 01:05:24,195 --> 01:05:26,905 Polacks-- They all look the same in a tux. 866 01:05:27,012 --> 01:05:28,990 You're not Polish, are-- Uh, hi. 867 01:05:29,092 --> 01:05:31,870 Thanks. Here. 868 01:05:31,977 --> 01:05:33,955 This-- This'll help. 869 01:05:42,778 --> 01:05:45,922 - Oh, thank you. - No problem. 870 01:05:46,031 --> 01:05:49,610 That was in my mouth. Forget it. 871 01:05:49,721 --> 01:05:52,534 ^^^^ 872 01:05:57,033 --> 01:06:00,613 So, what's your name? 873 01:06:00,723 --> 01:06:04,073 - Elliot. Hi. - Yeah. 874 01:06:04,178 --> 01:06:06,088 - It's a-- - I'm Amanda. 875 01:06:06,191 --> 01:06:09,175 Hey, Amanda. I should've asked you what your name-- 876 01:06:11,456 --> 01:06:15,917 - You photograph a lot of weddings? - Yeah. I hate it. 877 01:06:16,018 --> 01:06:19,998 I'm doing the thing again with my hands. I'm sorry. 878 01:06:20,111 --> 01:06:23,587 We are emotions and emotions are us. 879 01:06:23,699 --> 01:06:25,678 Again I can't separate emotions. 880 01:06:25,779 --> 01:06:28,353 When you consider that, um... 881 01:06:28,462 --> 01:06:30,441 every aspect of your digestion... 882 01:06:30,542 --> 01:06:32,521 every sphincter that opens and closes... 883 01:06:32,622 --> 01:06:35,435 every group of cells that come in for nourishment... 884 01:06:35,541 --> 01:06:40,161 and then moves out to, um... 885 01:06:40,269 --> 01:06:42,750 heal something or repair something-- 886 01:06:42,852 --> 01:06:46,432 Those are all under the influence of the molecules of emotion. 887 01:06:46,542 --> 01:06:48,955 I mean, it's this total buzz. 888 01:06:52,613 --> 01:06:55,861 So you ask if emotions are bad. 889 01:06:55,968 --> 01:06:58,244 Emotions are not bad. They're life. 890 01:06:58,349 --> 01:07:02,833 They color the richness of our experience. It's our addiction that's the problem. 891 01:07:02,944 --> 01:07:05,289 The thing that most people don't realize is that... 892 01:07:05,393 --> 01:07:08,310 when they understand that they are addicted to emotions-- 893 01:07:08,412 --> 01:07:11,992 - Another drink? - it's notjust psychological. 894 01:07:12,102 --> 01:07:14,412 It's biochemical. Think about this. 895 01:07:14,517 --> 01:07:17,193 Heroin uses the same receptor mechanisms on the cells... 896 01:07:17,301 --> 01:07:19,371 that our emotional chemicals use. 897 01:07:19,481 --> 01:07:22,729 It's easy to see then that if we can be addicted to heroin... 898 01:07:22,836 --> 01:07:26,724 then we can be addicted to any neural peptide, any emotion. 899 01:07:26,827 --> 01:07:29,400 - To the groom! - To the groom. 900 01:07:29,511 --> 01:07:31,958 Whoo! 901 01:07:34,810 --> 01:07:36,720 - What's up, guys? - What's up, man? 902 01:07:36,822 --> 01:07:38,732 - Hello. - What do we need? 903 01:07:38,835 --> 01:07:40,745 - Some foxes. - Who put out. 904 01:07:40,848 --> 01:07:42,826 Yeah, baby! 905 01:07:56,948 --> 01:07:59,292 Cheers. 906 01:08:03,389 --> 01:08:05,493 So-- 907 01:08:07,447 --> 01:08:10,123 The relevant search command that's going on... 908 01:08:10,232 --> 01:08:14,349 is related to finding a certain emotional state. 909 01:08:14,458 --> 01:08:17,100 I mean, we can't even direct our eyes... 910 01:08:17,208 --> 01:08:19,919 without having an emotional aspect to it. 911 01:08:40,722 --> 01:08:44,302 Oh. Oh, gosh. 912 01:08:44,411 --> 01:08:46,549 She wouldn't fall for me. 913 01:08:46,659 --> 01:08:50,239 Oh, mama! Whoo! 914 01:08:50,348 --> 01:08:53,333 What the hell are you waitin'for? 915 01:08:53,435 --> 01:08:57,918 Come on, ya little pussies! Geez! I can't believe you guys! 916 01:08:58,030 --> 01:09:02,182 What are you-- Ooh.! Come on. Come on. Just get the hell out of the way. 917 01:09:02,290 --> 01:09:04,898 Hi there, honey! 918 01:09:05,006 --> 01:09:06,985 Come on, baby. You know you want it. 919 01:09:07,086 --> 01:09:09,465 Oh, don't give me that look. 920 01:09:15,874 --> 01:09:18,013 Now... 921 01:09:18,122 --> 01:09:21,702 what about people who are addicted to sex? 922 01:09:33,954 --> 01:09:36,024 Whoa! 923 01:09:36,135 --> 01:09:39,349 - Whew.! - Hello there, big boy. 924 01:09:43,011 --> 01:09:46,899 Is there a rocket in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me? 925 01:10:04,813 --> 01:10:07,352 ^ The lights are on ^ 926 01:10:07,463 --> 01:10:10,574 ^^But you're not home ^^ 927 01:10:10,683 --> 01:10:13,828 ^^ Your mind is not your own ^^ 928 01:10:13,937 --> 01:10:16,247 - Yeow! - ^^ Your heart sweats ^^ 929 01:10:16,352 --> 01:10:18,559 ^^ Your body shakes ^^ 930 01:10:18,667 --> 01:10:21,652 ^^ Your kiss is what it takes ^^ 931 01:10:21,752 --> 01:10:24,737 ^^ You can't sleep, oh ^^ 932 01:10:24,839 --> 01:10:27,115 ^^ You can't eat ^^ 933 01:10:27,220 --> 01:10:31,543 ^^ There's no doubt you're in deep ^^ 934 01:10:31,648 --> 01:10:35,537 ^^ Your throat is tight You can't breathe ^^ 935 01:10:35,639 --> 01:10:39,425 ^^Another kiss is all you need ^^ 936 01:10:39,531 --> 01:10:41,978 ^^ Whoa,you like to think ^^ 937 01:10:42,080 --> 01:10:44,493 ^^ That you're immune to the stuff ^^ 938 01:10:44,595 --> 01:10:47,580 ^^ Oh,yeah ^^ 939 01:10:49,291 --> 01:10:53,007 ^^It's closer to the truth to say you can't get enough ^^ 940 01:10:53,115 --> 01:10:57,335 ^^ You know you're gonna have to face it You're addicted to love ^^ 941 01:10:57,442 --> 01:11:01,868 ^^ You see the signs but you can't read ^^ 942 01:11:01,971 --> 01:11:05,927 ^^ You're running at a different speed ^^ 943 01:11:06,029 --> 01:11:09,986 - ^^ Your heart beats in double time ^^ - Snap out of it! Over here! 944 01:11:10,088 --> 01:11:13,564 ^^Another kiss and you'll be mine ^^ 945 01:11:13,677 --> 01:11:18,697 ^^A one-track mind You can't be saved ^^ 946 01:11:18,809 --> 01:11:22,697 ^ Oblivion is all you crave ^ 947 01:11:22,801 --> 01:11:25,339 ^^If there's some ^^ 948 01:11:25,451 --> 01:11:27,361 - I want to hear some-- - Hold on. 949 01:11:27,463 --> 01:11:30,346 Would you not touch anything? That's very expensive equipment. All right? 950 01:11:31,454 --> 01:11:33,833 ^^ Whoa,you like to think ^^ 951 01:11:33,936 --> 01:11:36,178 ^ That you're immune to the stuff ^ 952 01:11:36,285 --> 01:11:38,697 ^ Oh, yeah ^ 953 01:11:41,886 --> 01:11:45,534 I want to hear some polka music, okay? 954 01:11:45,643 --> 01:11:49,188 These people want to hear some polka music. You can't have a Polish wedding... 955 01:11:49,299 --> 01:11:53,817 - without polka music.! - ^ Might as well face it You're addicted to love ^ 956 01:11:53,928 --> 01:11:57,211 ^ Might as well face it You're-- ^^ 957 01:11:57,316 --> 01:11:59,558 - No! Would you leave it alone? - Keep your-- 958 01:11:59,664 --> 01:12:04,251 How can you have a Polish wedding without any-- Polish music? 959 01:12:04,360 --> 01:12:07,105 Get your-- hands off my equipment! 960 01:12:11,773 --> 01:12:14,552 Like I said before... 961 01:12:14,658 --> 01:12:18,204 it ain't a Polish wedding without a polka! 962 01:12:18,314 --> 01:12:20,956 ^^^^ 963 01:13:18,524 --> 01:13:20,434 ^^^^ 964 01:13:52,368 --> 01:13:58,098 ^^^^ 965 01:15:03,948 --> 01:15:08,740 Our mind literally creates our body. 966 01:15:08,846 --> 01:15:13,134 So it all starts in the cell. The cell is a protein-producing machine... 967 01:15:13,240 --> 01:15:16,854 but it gets its signal from the brain. 968 01:15:16,962 --> 01:15:21,285 One of the things about receptors is they change in their sensitivity. 969 01:15:21,391 --> 01:15:26,685 If a given receptor for a given drug or internal juice... 970 01:15:26,791 --> 01:15:31,983 is being bombarded for a long time at a high intensity... 971 01:15:32,091 --> 01:15:34,538 it will literally shrink up. 972 01:15:34,640 --> 01:15:36,642 There will be less of them. 973 01:15:36,753 --> 01:15:39,566 Or it will be hooked up in such a way... 974 01:15:39,672 --> 01:15:43,594 that it is desensitized or downregulated. 975 01:15:43,697 --> 01:15:47,517 So the same amount of drug or internal juice... 976 01:15:47,621 --> 01:15:50,698 will elicit a much smaller response. 977 01:16:30,287 --> 01:16:34,942 If we're bombarding the cell with the same attitude and the same chemistry... 978 01:16:35,050 --> 01:16:37,531 over and over again on a daily basis... 979 01:16:37,633 --> 01:16:41,956 when that cell finally decides to divide... 980 01:16:42,061 --> 01:16:45,881 when it produces a sister cell or a daughter cell... 981 01:16:45,986 --> 01:16:50,469 that next cell will have more receptor sites... 982 01:16:50,581 --> 01:16:53,761 for those particular emotional neuropeptides... 983 01:16:53,868 --> 01:16:55,847 and less receptor sites... 984 01:16:55,947 --> 01:16:59,127 for vitamins, minerals, nutrients, fluid exchange... 985 01:16:59,234 --> 01:17:01,647 or even the release of waste products or toxins. 986 01:17:01,751 --> 01:17:06,234 Now, all aging is the result of improper protein production. 987 01:17:06,346 --> 01:17:08,552 What happens when we age? 988 01:17:08,660 --> 01:17:11,302 Our skin gets-- loses elasticity. 989 01:17:11,410 --> 01:17:13,891 Well, elastin is a protein. 990 01:17:13,994 --> 01:17:16,807 What happens to our enzymes? We don't digest as well. 991 01:17:16,912 --> 01:17:19,291 What happens to our synovial fluid? 992 01:17:19,394 --> 01:17:21,968 Those are proteins that become brittle and stiff. 993 01:17:22,077 --> 01:17:24,456 What happens to our bones? They become thin. 994 01:17:24,559 --> 01:17:28,677 So all aging is a result of improper protein production. 995 01:17:28,786 --> 01:17:30,696 So then the question arises... 996 01:17:30,798 --> 01:17:33,611 does it really matter what we eat? 997 01:17:33,716 --> 01:17:36,290 And does nutrition really have an effect... 998 01:17:36,401 --> 01:17:38,779 if the cell doesn't even have the receptor sites... 999 01:17:38,883 --> 01:17:41,695 after 20 years of emotional abuse... 1000 01:17:41,801 --> 01:17:45,277 to even receive, or to let in... 1001 01:17:45,390 --> 01:17:48,202 the nutrients that are necessary for its health? 1002 01:18:05,012 --> 01:18:08,488 Okay, guys. It's time for a course correction... 1003 01:18:08,602 --> 01:18:12,147 on our trajectory, along the path of our adventure. 1004 01:18:12,258 --> 01:18:15,906 And that course correction is the movement to a new paradigm... 1005 01:18:16,015 --> 01:18:18,016 just an expansion of the old-- 1006 01:18:18,128 --> 01:18:23,492 just as the universe is larger than we thought it was in our modeling. 1007 01:18:23,595 --> 01:18:27,175 And it's always larger than we think it is. 1008 01:18:32,015 --> 01:18:33,993 I hate you. 1009 01:18:56,266 --> 01:18:58,908 I hate you. 1010 01:19:13,439 --> 01:19:15,349 You idiot! 1011 01:19:17,968 --> 01:19:20,174 You suck! Look at you! 1012 01:19:20,282 --> 01:19:22,352 You're fat! You're ugly! 1013 01:19:22,462 --> 01:19:26,008 You are worth nothing! You're getting old! 1014 01:19:26,119 --> 01:19:29,767 I hate you! 1015 01:19:48,861 --> 01:19:51,777 It makes you wonder, doesn't it? 1016 01:19:53,221 --> 01:19:56,206 If thoughts can do that to water... 1017 01:19:56,307 --> 01:20:01,133 imagine what our thoughts can do to us. 1018 01:20:17,339 --> 01:20:19,511 No one has ever came along... 1019 01:20:19,620 --> 01:20:25,590 and ever given you sufficient, intelligent knowledge... 1020 01:20:25,690 --> 01:20:28,195 about your beautiful self-- 1021 01:20:28,307 --> 01:20:32,287 how you work from the inside out. 1022 01:20:32,400 --> 01:20:36,048 Why do you have addictions? Because you have nothing better. 1023 01:20:36,156 --> 01:20:38,135 You have dreamt of nothing better... 1024 01:20:38,235 --> 01:20:41,220 because no one has ever taught you how to dream better. 1025 01:20:45,850 --> 01:20:49,567 Do I think that you are bad? I don't think you're bad. 1026 01:20:49,673 --> 01:20:52,486 Do I think you're good? I don't think you're good either. 1027 01:20:52,592 --> 01:20:54,570 I think you're God. 1028 01:20:59,670 --> 01:21:03,250 In general, the field of psychiatry really doesn't... 1029 01:21:03,359 --> 01:21:07,316 allow for enough... 1030 01:21:07,417 --> 01:21:09,728 freedom of action on people's part... 1031 01:21:09,833 --> 01:21:13,047 meaning an awful lot of problems-- not all of them, to be sure... 1032 01:21:13,154 --> 01:21:17,133 but an awful lot of problems that get labeled as psychological problems... 1033 01:21:17,246 --> 01:21:20,128 really amount to people making rotten choices. 1034 01:21:20,231 --> 01:21:23,410 And they ought to be instructed to make different ones. 1035 01:21:25,229 --> 01:21:27,471 Can I-- 1036 01:21:29,891 --> 01:21:31,870 Wow. 1037 01:21:31,971 --> 01:21:35,356 um, borrow some toothpaste? 1038 01:21:44,650 --> 01:21:46,788 Thanks. 1039 01:21:51,191 --> 01:21:53,227 When I talk about ''we''disappearing... 1040 01:21:53,338 --> 01:21:56,014 I don't mean that we physically disappear. 1041 01:21:56,122 --> 01:21:59,633 What I mean is that we move out of the area of the brain... 1042 01:21:59,744 --> 01:22:01,723 that has to do with our personality... 1043 01:22:01,824 --> 01:22:06,479 that has to do with our association to people, our association to places... 1044 01:22:06,587 --> 01:22:10,567 our association to things and times and events. 1045 01:22:10,680 --> 01:22:15,438 We don't exist in the associative centers in our brain... 1046 01:22:15,543 --> 01:22:19,523 that reaffirms our identity and reaffirms our personality. 1047 01:22:19,636 --> 01:22:22,884 For the average person in the world who lives life... 1048 01:22:22,989 --> 01:22:27,003 and considers their life boring or uninspiring... 1049 01:22:27,116 --> 01:22:29,094 it's because they've made no attempt... 1050 01:22:29,195 --> 01:22:31,905 to gain knowledge and information that will inspire them. 1051 01:22:32,013 --> 01:22:35,661 They're so hypnotized by their environment... 1052 01:22:35,769 --> 01:22:39,692 through the media, through television... 1053 01:22:39,795 --> 01:22:43,912 through people living and creating ideals... 1054 01:22:44,021 --> 01:22:46,663 that everybody struggles to become... 1055 01:22:46,771 --> 01:22:48,750 that no one can actually become... 1056 01:22:48,851 --> 01:22:51,058 in terms of physical appearance... 1057 01:22:51,165 --> 01:22:54,813 and definitions of beauty and valor... 1058 01:22:54,922 --> 01:22:56,900 that are all illusions... 1059 01:22:57,002 --> 01:23:01,726 that most people surrender and live their life in mediocracy. 1060 01:23:01,832 --> 01:23:04,817 And they may live that life and the soul may never really-- 1061 01:23:04,918 --> 01:23:07,903 their desire may never really rise to the surface... 1062 01:23:08,004 --> 01:23:10,920 so they may want to be something else. 1063 01:23:11,022 --> 01:23:13,504 But if it does rise to the surface... 1064 01:23:13,606 --> 01:23:17,494 and, uh, they ask themselves if there is something more-- 1065 01:23:17,597 --> 01:23:21,314 Or, why am I here? What is the purpose of life? 1066 01:23:21,421 --> 01:23:23,697 Where am I going? What happens when I die? 1067 01:23:23,803 --> 01:23:26,113 They start to ask those questions. 1068 01:23:26,218 --> 01:23:30,473 They start to flirt and interact with the perception... 1069 01:23:30,578 --> 01:23:32,785 that they may be having a nervous breakdown... 1070 01:23:32,893 --> 01:23:36,404 and in reality, what they're doing is that their old concepts... 1071 01:23:36,515 --> 01:23:41,136 of how they viewed their life and the world start to fall apart. 1072 01:24:44,842 --> 01:24:48,490 We're in completely new territory in our brain... 1073 01:24:48,599 --> 01:24:50,577 and because we're in completely new territory... 1074 01:24:50,679 --> 01:24:53,252 we're rewiring the brain... 1075 01:24:53,362 --> 01:24:56,942 literally reconnecting to a new concept. 1076 01:24:57,052 --> 01:25:01,375 Then ultimately it changes us from the inside out. 1077 01:25:03,324 --> 01:25:05,898 If I change my mind, will I change my choices? 1078 01:25:06,007 --> 01:25:08,488 If I change my choices, will my life change? 1079 01:25:08,591 --> 01:25:11,164 Why can't I change? What am I addicted to? 1080 01:25:11,274 --> 01:25:13,950 What will I lose that I'm chemically attached to... 1081 01:25:14,057 --> 01:25:17,099 and what person, place, thing, time or event... 1082 01:25:17,211 --> 01:25:20,721 that I'm chemically attached to that I don't want to lose... 1083 01:25:20,833 --> 01:25:24,951 because I may have to experience the chemical withdrawal from that? 1084 01:25:25,060 --> 01:25:27,370 Hence the human drama. 1085 01:25:39,919 --> 01:25:43,705 Amanda, it's Bob, and I'm just calling to say... 1086 01:25:43,811 --> 01:25:46,853 I hope that you can come tonight. 1087 01:25:46,963 --> 01:25:50,852 I really want to see you. I, uh, really want to talk to ya. 1088 01:25:50,955 --> 01:25:53,093 I know we can work things out. 1089 01:26:01,588 --> 01:26:04,069 What's the only planet in the Milky Way... 1090 01:26:04,171 --> 01:26:06,949 that has habitation that is steeped... 1091 01:26:07,056 --> 01:26:12,957 in enormous subjugation of religion? 1092 01:26:13,059 --> 01:26:15,232 You know why that is? 1093 01:26:15,340 --> 01:26:19,263 It's because people have set up right and wrong. 1094 01:26:19,365 --> 01:26:22,316 If I do this, I'm going to get punished by God. 1095 01:26:22,418 --> 01:26:25,129 If I do the other thing, I'm going to get rewarded. 1096 01:26:25,235 --> 01:26:28,152 This is a really poor description... 1097 01:26:28,254 --> 01:26:32,108 that tries to map out a path in life for us to follow... 1098 01:26:32,213 --> 01:26:34,351 but with deplorable results. 1099 01:26:34,460 --> 01:26:38,039 Because there really is no such thing as good or bad. 1100 01:26:38,150 --> 01:26:41,604 We're judging things far too superficially that way. 1101 01:26:41,706 --> 01:26:46,292 Does that mean you're in favor of sin and licentiousness and depravity? No. 1102 01:26:46,401 --> 01:26:49,981 It simply means that you need to improve... 1103 01:26:50,091 --> 01:26:53,841 your expression and understanding of what you're dealing with here. 1104 01:26:53,948 --> 01:26:57,562 There are things that I do, and I know they'll evolve me. 1105 01:26:57,672 --> 01:26:59,878 There are other things that will not evolve me. 1106 01:26:59,986 --> 01:27:04,137 But it's not good or bad. There's no God waiting to punish you... 1107 01:27:04,246 --> 01:27:06,990 because you did one or the other. 1108 01:27:07,097 --> 01:27:10,985 There is no God condemning people. 1109 01:27:11,089 --> 01:27:14,039 Everyone is gods. 1110 01:27:14,141 --> 01:27:18,121 At the same time, God is, um-- 1111 01:27:18,233 --> 01:27:20,475 is this sort of placeholder name... 1112 01:27:20,581 --> 01:27:24,057 for those parts of our experience of the world... 1113 01:27:24,171 --> 01:27:27,716 which are somehow transcendent, somehow sublime. 1114 01:27:27,827 --> 01:27:32,150 I have no idea what God is. 1115 01:27:32,254 --> 01:27:34,930 Yet I have an experience that God is. 1116 01:27:35,039 --> 01:27:38,115 There is something very real about this presence called God... 1117 01:27:38,224 --> 01:27:41,575 although I have no idea how to define God... 1118 01:27:41,680 --> 01:27:44,092 to see God as a person or a thing. 1119 01:27:44,196 --> 01:27:46,803 I can't-- I can't seem to do it. 1120 01:27:46,912 --> 01:27:52,574 It's kind of like asking a human being to explain what God is... 1121 01:27:52,681 --> 01:27:58,377 is similar to asking a fish to explain the water in which the fish swims. 1122 01:27:58,485 --> 01:28:04,215 God is a superposition of all the spirit from all things. 1123 01:28:05,730 --> 01:28:08,406 You are a God in the making... 1124 01:28:08,513 --> 01:28:11,326 and you have to walk this path. 1125 01:28:11,432 --> 01:28:16,224 But someday,you have to love the abstract... 1126 01:28:16,330 --> 01:28:19,474 as much as you love the condition of addiction. 1127 01:28:22,267 --> 01:28:26,247 The only way that I will ever be great to myself... 1128 01:28:26,359 --> 01:28:29,207 is not what I do to my body... 1129 01:28:29,311 --> 01:28:31,449 but what I do to my mind. 1130 01:28:39,876 --> 01:28:43,696 So if we're consciously designing our destiny... 1131 01:28:43,801 --> 01:28:46,877 and if we're consciously, from a spiritual standpoint... 1132 01:28:46,988 --> 01:28:48,966 throwing in with the idea... 1133 01:28:49,067 --> 01:28:53,390 that our thoughts can affect our reality or affect our life... 1134 01:28:53,495 --> 01:28:55,873 'cause reality equals life... 1135 01:28:55,977 --> 01:29:00,871 then I have this little pact that I have when I create my day. 1136 01:29:00,975 --> 01:29:04,085 I say, ''I'm taking this time to create my day... 1137 01:29:04,195 --> 01:29:08,209 ''and I'm infecting the quantum field. 1138 01:29:08,321 --> 01:29:14,221 ''Now, if in fact the observer's watching me the whole time that I'm doing this... 1139 01:29:14,325 --> 01:29:17,539 ''and there is a spiritual aspect to myself... 1140 01:29:17,645 --> 01:29:21,064 ''then show me a sign today that you paid attention... 1141 01:29:21,168 --> 01:29:23,981 ''to any one of these things that I created... 1142 01:29:24,086 --> 01:29:27,906 ''and bring them in a way that I won't expect... 1143 01:29:28,010 --> 01:29:32,128 ''so I'm as surprised at my ability to be able to experience these things... 1144 01:29:32,237 --> 01:29:37,200 and make it so that I have no doubt that it's come from you.'' 1145 01:30:05,041 --> 01:30:07,615 So the brain is capable of millions of different things... 1146 01:30:07,725 --> 01:30:11,008 that people just really should learn... 1147 01:30:11,113 --> 01:30:14,395 how incredible they actually are and how incredible their minds actually are... 1148 01:30:14,501 --> 01:30:17,715 and that not only do they have this unbelievable thing within their head... 1149 01:30:17,821 --> 01:30:21,744 that can do so many things for them and can help us learn and can actually change and adapt... 1150 01:30:21,847 --> 01:30:24,420 it can make us something better than what we actually are... 1151 01:30:24,530 --> 01:30:27,034 and it can actually help us to transcend ourselves-- 1152 01:30:27,146 --> 01:30:29,720 There may be some way that it can actually take us... 1153 01:30:29,829 --> 01:30:32,105 to a higher level of our existence... 1154 01:30:32,211 --> 01:30:35,253 where we can actually understand the world in a deeper way... 1155 01:30:35,365 --> 01:30:38,979 where we can understand our relationship to things and people in a deeper way... 1156 01:30:39,087 --> 01:30:42,072 and we can ultimately make more meaning for ourselves in our world. 1157 01:30:42,173 --> 01:30:44,884 We can show that there's a spiritual part of our brain... 1158 01:30:44,991 --> 01:30:49,177 but it's a part that we all can have access to and it's something that we can all do. 1159 01:31:00,454 --> 01:31:03,302 We have to formulate what we want... 1160 01:31:03,406 --> 01:31:06,986 and be so concentrated on it and so focused on it... 1161 01:31:07,096 --> 01:31:09,475 and have so much of our awareness of it... 1162 01:31:09,578 --> 01:31:12,529 that we lose track of ourselves. 1163 01:31:12,630 --> 01:31:14,609 We lose track of time. 1164 01:31:14,710 --> 01:31:16,848 We lose track of our identity. 1165 01:31:16,957 --> 01:31:20,937 And the moment we become so involved in that experience... 1166 01:31:21,049 --> 01:31:25,304 that we lose track of ourselves, we lose track of time... 1167 01:31:25,410 --> 01:31:28,555 that picture is the only picture that's real. 1168 01:31:28,663 --> 01:31:31,305 And everybody's had that experience... 1169 01:31:31,414 --> 01:31:34,056 when they've made up their mind that they've wanted something. 1170 01:31:34,164 --> 01:31:36,143 That's quantum physics in action. 1171 01:31:36,244 --> 01:31:40,899 That's manifesting reality. That's the observer in full effect. 1172 01:31:43,489 --> 01:31:46,965 Your consciousness influences others around you. 1173 01:31:48,420 --> 01:31:51,062 It influences material properties. 1174 01:31:53,452 --> 01:31:55,590 It influences your future. 1175 01:31:57,577 --> 01:32:00,219 You are cocreating your future. 1176 01:32:26,525 --> 01:32:29,510 Show me a sign today that you paid attention... 1177 01:32:29,611 --> 01:32:32,092 to any one of these things that I created... 1178 01:32:32,194 --> 01:32:35,510 and bring them in a way that I won't expect... 1179 01:32:35,615 --> 01:32:39,869 so I'm as surprised at my ability to be able to experience these things... 1180 01:32:39,976 --> 01:32:44,299 and make it so that I have no doubt that it's come from you. 1181 01:32:49,133 --> 01:32:51,339 Do we really know each other? 1182 01:32:51,447 --> 01:32:53,619 What is my life? 1183 01:32:53,728 --> 01:32:56,302 Consciousness of religion is something fundamental. 1184 01:33:05,200 --> 01:33:07,704 Have you ever seen yourself... 1185 01:33:07,816 --> 01:33:11,533 through the eyes of someone else that you have become? 1186 01:33:14,961 --> 01:33:17,945 What an initiation. 1187 01:33:24,353 --> 01:33:29,443 Have you ever stopped for a moment and looked at yourself... 1188 01:33:29,552 --> 01:33:33,944 through the eyes of the ultimate observer? 1189 01:34:19,698 --> 01:34:22,946 I am much more than I think I am. 1190 01:34:23,053 --> 01:34:25,627 I can be much more even than that. 1191 01:34:27,011 --> 01:34:31,334 I can influence my environment, the people. 1192 01:34:32,579 --> 01:34:36,433 I can influence space itself. 1193 01:34:36,537 --> 01:34:39,350 I can influence the future. 1194 01:34:40,461 --> 01:34:42,634 I am responsible for all those things. 1195 01:34:45,023 --> 01:34:48,408 I and the surround are not separate. 1196 01:34:48,512 --> 01:34:50,993 They're part of one. 1197 01:34:51,094 --> 01:34:53,404 I'm connected to it all. 1198 01:34:54,986 --> 01:34:56,964 I'm not alone. 1199 01:35:01,593 --> 01:35:04,978 Knowing that there's this interconnectedness of the universe... 1200 01:35:05,082 --> 01:35:08,662 that we are all interconnected and that we are connected to the universe... 1201 01:35:08,771 --> 01:35:10,749 at its fundamental level... 1202 01:35:10,851 --> 01:35:14,133 I think is as good an explanation for spirituality as there is. 1203 01:35:14,239 --> 01:35:18,219 It is my belief that our purpose here... 1204 01:35:18,331 --> 01:35:23,158 is to develop our gifts of intentionality... 1205 01:35:23,262 --> 01:35:28,089 and learn how to be effective creators. 1206 01:35:28,193 --> 01:35:30,640 We are here to be creators. 1207 01:35:30,742 --> 01:35:35,569 We are here to infiltrate space... 1208 01:35:35,672 --> 01:35:39,927 with ideas and mansions of thought. 1209 01:35:40,033 --> 01:35:43,247 We are here to make something of this life. 1210 01:35:43,354 --> 01:35:45,424 To acknowledge the quantum self... 1211 01:35:45,534 --> 01:35:48,782 to acknowledge the place where we really have choice... 1212 01:35:48,889 --> 01:35:51,233 to acknowledge mind-- 1213 01:35:51,338 --> 01:35:54,757 When that shift of perspective takes place... 1214 01:35:54,859 --> 01:35:58,004 we say that somebody has been enlightened. 1215 01:36:03,882 --> 01:36:08,537 Quantum mechanics allows for the intangible... 1216 01:36:08,645 --> 01:36:11,219 phenomenon of freedom... 1217 01:36:11,329 --> 01:36:14,943 to be woven into human nature. 1218 01:36:16,696 --> 01:36:20,676 Quantum physics, very succinctly speaking... 1219 01:36:20,788 --> 01:36:23,933 is a physics of possibilities. 1220 01:36:24,041 --> 01:36:27,655 It opens fundamentally the question of whose possibilities... 1221 01:36:27,765 --> 01:36:31,150 and who chooses from these possibilities... 1222 01:36:31,253 --> 01:36:34,101 to give us the actual event of experience. 1223 01:36:34,205 --> 01:36:38,391 The only answer that is satisfactory both logically and meaningfully... 1224 01:36:38,498 --> 01:36:43,153 is the answer that consciousness is the ground of all being. 1225 01:36:43,261 --> 01:36:46,875 We must pursue knowledge... 1226 01:36:46,985 --> 01:36:49,969 without any interference of our addictions... 1227 01:36:50,071 --> 01:36:54,555 and if we can do that, we will manifest knowledge in reality... 1228 01:36:54,666 --> 01:36:57,411 and our bodies will experience it... 1229 01:36:57,517 --> 01:37:02,206 in new ways, in new chemistry, in new holograms... 1230 01:37:02,314 --> 01:37:06,500 new elsewheres of thought... 1231 01:37:06,608 --> 01:37:09,146 beyond our wildest dreams. 1232 01:37:09,257 --> 01:37:12,733 All of us one day will reach the level of the avatars... 1233 01:37:12,847 --> 01:37:15,385 that we have read about in history-- 1234 01:37:15,496 --> 01:37:17,635 the Buddhas and theJesus. 1235 01:37:20,024 --> 01:37:23,009 Welcome to the kingdom of heaven... 1236 01:37:23,110 --> 01:37:27,090 withoutjudgment, without hate... 1237 01:37:27,203 --> 01:37:31,183 without testing, without anything. 1238 01:37:31,294 --> 01:37:36,624 That we simply are has allowed this reality we call real... 1239 01:37:36,729 --> 01:37:39,233 from the power of intangibility... 1240 01:37:39,345 --> 01:37:43,267 to pull out of inertness, action-- chaos-- 1241 01:37:43,370 --> 01:37:45,748 and hold it into its form... 1242 01:37:45,853 --> 01:37:48,495 and we call it matter. 1243 01:38:05,274 --> 01:38:07,252 How can we measure the effects? 1244 01:38:07,354 --> 01:38:11,837 We get to live our life and see then if somewhere in our lives... 1245 01:38:11,949 --> 01:38:14,762 something's changed. 1246 01:38:16,880 --> 01:38:18,790 And then if it has changed... 1247 01:38:18,892 --> 01:38:22,438 we become the scientists to our life... 1248 01:38:22,549 --> 01:38:25,030 which is the whole reason why we're here. 1249 01:39:08,200 --> 01:39:11,185 Don'tjust take it at face value. 1250 01:39:11,285 --> 01:39:13,766 Test it out and see whether it's true. 1251 01:39:27,185 --> 01:39:31,005 - Hey, you're back. - I'm back. 1252 01:39:31,110 --> 01:39:35,227 - So you never answered my question. - What question? 1253 01:39:35,336 --> 01:39:39,052 How far down the rabbit hole do you want to go? 1254 01:40:01,868 --> 01:40:04,247 Ponder that for a while. 1255 01:40:14,279 --> 01:40:17,058 My name's David Albert. Um... 1256 01:40:17,164 --> 01:40:21,144 I, uh, got a Ph.D. in theoretical physics. 1257 01:40:24,208 --> 01:40:28,428 I studied biochemistry at Rutgers University... 1258 01:40:28,535 --> 01:40:30,513 and then went to chiropractic college... 1259 01:40:30,615 --> 01:40:32,959 at Life University in Atlanta, Georgia. 1260 01:40:33,063 --> 01:40:36,517 My postgraduate training is in anatomy and physiology... 1261 01:40:36,618 --> 01:40:39,626 neurochemistry, neurophysiology and genetics. 1262 01:40:41,818 --> 01:40:44,460 I study quantum physics. I sometimes teach it. 1263 01:40:44,568 --> 01:40:47,313 I have written a book on quantum physics and many books... 1264 01:40:47,419 --> 01:40:50,404 explicating the meaning of quantum physics. 1265 01:40:53,625 --> 01:40:56,335 After my Ph.D. from Harvard, I went to CERN... 1266 01:40:56,443 --> 01:40:58,421 a European laboratory for particle research... 1267 01:40:58,522 --> 01:41:00,501 and then joined faculty at Stanford. 1268 01:41:00,601 --> 01:41:04,250 And my work there has been the development of unified quantum field theories. 1269 01:41:04,358 --> 01:41:08,075 I have about a hundred publications in this area, but perhaps I'm best known... 1270 01:41:08,182 --> 01:41:11,636 for the discovery of supersymmetric flipped SU5... 1271 01:41:11,738 --> 01:41:13,716 grand unified field theory. 1272 01:41:18,849 --> 01:41:21,262 I make my living as an anesthesiologist... 1273 01:41:21,364 --> 01:41:23,845 and every day as I put my patients to sleep... 1274 01:41:23,948 --> 01:41:27,093 I kind of wonder where they go and why they're there in the first place. 1275 01:41:27,201 --> 01:41:29,179 That's one of the reasons that attracted me... 1276 01:41:29,281 --> 01:41:31,694 to anesthesia and the study of consciousness. 1277 01:41:36,258 --> 01:41:38,293 My name is Miceal Ledwith... 1278 01:41:38,405 --> 01:41:43,895 and for most of my life I was a professor of theology. 1279 01:41:47,193 --> 01:41:49,801 I'm Dr. Daniel Monti. I'm a physician... 1280 01:41:49,909 --> 01:41:52,791 with specialty training in psychiatry and human behavior. 1281 01:41:52,895 --> 01:41:56,371 I'm on the full-time faculty at theJefferson Medical College. 1282 01:41:58,094 --> 01:42:00,004 I actually got very interested in studying... 1283 01:42:00,107 --> 01:42:02,485 this whole topic of the brain and spirituality... 1284 01:42:02,589 --> 01:42:06,375 because it had to do with the questions I was asking since I was a child... 1285 01:42:06,480 --> 01:42:10,494 about reality and how we understood truth and what was real. 1286 01:42:10,606 --> 01:42:13,144 As I grew up and as I realized that... 1287 01:42:13,256 --> 01:42:15,794 while spirituality was, in some senses... 1288 01:42:15,906 --> 01:42:18,044 a very important part of trying to find those answers... 1289 01:42:18,153 --> 01:42:20,131 science also was a very crucial part. 1290 01:42:20,233 --> 01:42:22,943 I was ultimately looking for some way... 1291 01:42:23,050 --> 01:42:25,395 of bringing those two forces together. 1292 01:42:30,161 --> 01:42:32,071 Well, my name is Candace Pert... 1293 01:42:32,173 --> 01:42:36,153 and I'm a professor at Georgetown in the medical school. 1294 01:42:38,949 --> 01:42:41,522 Here we are actually filming great thinkers. 1295 01:42:41,633 --> 01:42:44,114 Everyone in this room is a great thinker... 1296 01:42:44,215 --> 01:42:47,028 now that we got 'em thinking. 1297 01:42:47,134 --> 01:42:49,112 That's always a trick, isn't it? 1298 01:42:51,628 --> 01:42:55,311 I should make it clear that I'm a graduate student in physics. 1299 01:42:55,418 --> 01:42:58,895 I'm not a full-fledged theoretical physicist yet. 1300 01:42:59,008 --> 01:43:02,118 Uh, but if fortune smiles on me... 1301 01:43:02,228 --> 01:43:06,848 and I continue to work like a dog on my problem sets and exams and whatnot... 1302 01:43:06,958 --> 01:43:09,200 eventually what I hope to do with this is-- 1303 01:43:09,305 --> 01:43:13,159 is to apply fundamental quantum theory... 1304 01:43:13,264 --> 01:43:16,249 to quantum information processing. 1305 01:43:18,731 --> 01:43:22,115 So I decided, well, if I gave up being department chairman... 1306 01:43:22,219 --> 01:43:24,666 and if I gave up all my professional committees... 1307 01:43:24,768 --> 01:43:29,091 and I gave up all my government committees, I would have a block of time... 1308 01:43:29,197 --> 01:43:31,541 that I could put to work. 1309 01:43:31,644 --> 01:43:33,851 Of course I gave up all my power positions... 1310 01:43:33,960 --> 01:43:36,201 but you have to sacrifice something. 1311 01:43:36,307 --> 01:43:39,887 I had to keep my day job because my family needed to be fed. 1312 01:43:47,242 --> 01:43:50,490 I presume that you're asking me how a scientist can sound this wacko... 1313 01:43:50,597 --> 01:43:55,321 because I must be sounding wacko. 1314 01:43:55,426 --> 01:44:00,253 It's really an interesting question. If you study science long enough... 1315 01:44:00,357 --> 01:44:03,674 and seriously enough and dig deeply enough... 1316 01:44:03,779 --> 01:44:06,489 if you don't come out feeling wacko about it... 1317 01:44:06,597 --> 01:44:08,575 you haven't understood a thing.