"[Clicks ]" "[ Blows ]" "[Low Rumbling]" "[Low Rumbling]" "[ Crackling, Rumbling]" "[ Low Rumbling Continues ]" "[ Crackling, Rumbling]" "[ Chattering, Faint ]" "[ Man ] What's going on, and why am I here?" "[ Explosion ]" " Where do we come from?" " What do quantum physics" " I m mense quantum mechanical isotopes." " Physics ofpossibility." "Quantum mechanics allows" "[ Woman ] Supreme mind." " Brain is capable of millions" " A neural net." " Cascade of biochemical" " An emotional response" "Molecules" "The brain does not know the difference between... what it sees in its environment and what it remembers." "We are running the holodeck." "Whatever way we observe the world around us" "[ Woman ] So how canyou continue to see the world as real... ifthe selfthat is determining it to be real is intangible?" "[ Popping ]" "[ Brakes Squealing]" "[ Woman ]Are all realities existing simultaneously?" "Is there a possibility... that all potentials exist side by side?" "Have you ever seen yourselfthrough the eyes ofsomeone else thatyou have become... and looked atyourselfthrough the eyes ofthe ultimate observer?" "[ Man ] Who are we?" "Where do we come from, what should we do... and where are we going?" "." "Why are we here?" "." "Well, that is the ultimate question, isn't it?" "." "What is reality?" "." "What I thought was unreal, now for me... seems in some ways to be more real than what I think to be real... which seems now more to be unreal." "You can't explain it, um... and anybodywho gets too lost in try-- anybodywho spends too much time trying to explain it... is likely to get lost forever down the rabbit hole of mysteriousness." "I think the moreyou look at quantum physics... the more mysterious and wondrous it becomes." "Quantum physics... very succinctly speaking... is a physics of possibilities." "These are questions" "These are addressing questions, um, ofhow the world feels to us... of-ofwhether there's a difference between the way the world feels to us... and the way it really is." "Haveyou ever thought about what thoughts are made of?" "." "I think some ofthe things we're seeing with the children today... is a sign that the culture is in thewrong paradigm... and not appreciating the power ofthought." "Every age, every generation has its built-in assumptions" "That the world is flat, or that the world is round, et cetera." "There are hundreds ofhidden assumptions... things we take for granted, that may or may not be true." "Of course, in the vast majority of cases, historically, these things aren't true." "So presumably, ifhistory is any guide... much about what we take for granted about the world simply isn't true." "But we're locked into these precepts without even knowing it oftentimes." "That's a paradigm." "Modern materialism... strips people ofthe need to feel responsible... and often enough, so does religion." "But I think ifyou take quantum mechanics seriously enough... it puts the responsibility squarely in your lap." "And it doesn't give answers that are clear-cut... and comforting." "It says, yes, the world is a very big place." "It's very mysterious." "Mechanism is not the answer, but I'm not gonna tell you what the answer is... becauseyou're old enough to decide foryourself." "Is everyone a mystery?" "." "Is everyone an enigma?" "." "They most certainly are." "Asking yourselfthese deeper questions opens up new ways ofbeing in the world." "It brings in a breath offresh air." "It makes life more joyful." "The real trick to life is not to be in the know... but be in the mystery." "[Beeping, Chittering]" "[Man Narrating] Why do we keep re-creating the same reality?" "Why do we keep having the same relationships?" "Why do we keep getting the same jobs... over and over again?" "In this infinite sea ofpotentials that exist around us... how come we keep re-creating the same realities?" "Isn't it amazing that we have options and potentials that exist... but we're unaware ofthem?" "Is it possible that we're so conditioned to our daily lives... so conditioned to the way we create our lives... that we buy the idea that we have no control at all?" "We've been conditioned to believe... that the external world is more real than the internal world." "This new model ofscience says just the opposite" "It says what's happening within us will create what's happening outside ofus." "There's a physical real ity that is absol utely rock-solid... and yet... it only" "Ifyou wanna put it this way, it only comes into existence... when it bumps up against some other piece of physical reality." "That other piece may be us, and of course, we're partial to those moments... but it doesn't have to be either." "You know, it could be just some incidental rock comes flying along... and interacts with this fuzzy mass of stuff... and sure enough, it provokes it into a particular state of existence." "There were philosophers in the past that said, "Look, ifl kick a rock..." ""and I hurt my toe, that's real." ""I feel that." "It feels real." "It's vivid." "And that means that it's reality."" "But it's still an experience, and it's still this person's perception ofit being real." "Scientific experiments have shown that ifwe take a person and, uh... hook their brains up to certain PET scans or computer technology... and ask them to look at a certain object... and theywatch, certain areas ofthe brain light up." "And then they've asked them to close their eyes... and now imagine that same object." "And when they imagine that same object... it produced the same areas ofthe brain to light up... as iftheywere actually visually looking at it." "So it caused scientists to back up and ask this question." "Sowho sees then?" "." "Does the brain see?" "." "Or do the eyes see?" "." "And what is reality?" "." "Is reality what we're seeing with our brain... oris realitywhat we're seeing with our eyes?" "And the truth is is that the brain does not know the difference... between what it sees in its environment and what it remembers... because the same specific neural nets are then firing." "So then it asks the question:" "What is reality?" "[ Woman ] We 're bombarded by huge amounts ofinformation... and it's coming into our body, and we 're processing it-- coming in through our sense organs, and it's percolating up and up..." " and at each step we're eliminating information." " [ J i ngl i ng ]" "And finally, what is bubbling up to consciousness is... the one that's the most self-serving." "[ Man ] The brain processes 400 billion bits ofinformation a second... but we 're only aware of2,000 ofthose." "But our awareness ofthose 2,000 bits ofinformation... are just about the environment, our body and about time." "[ Rattles ]" "[ Man ] We're living in a world where all we see is the tip ofthe iceberg-- the classical tip ofan immense quantum mechanical iceberg." " Hey, wow!" "." "You got a lot of shots to develop?" "." " No." "Oh, bum mer." "Well, I 'll catch you later." "[ Door Opens, Closes ]" "[ Man ] Ifthe brain is processing 400 billion bits ofinformation... and our awareness is only on 2,000-  [ H its Ground ] - that means reality's happening in the brain all the time." "It's receiving that information, andyet we haven't integrated it." "The eyes are I i ke the lens." "But the tape that's really seeing is the back of the brain." "It's called the visual cortex." "It's right back here." "It's like this camera and its tape." "Did you know that the brain imprints what it has the ability to see?" "." "This is important." "For example:." "This camera is seeing a lot more around me... than what is here... because it is-- has no objection and no judgment." "The onlymovie that's playing in the brain... is what we have the abilityto see." "So is it possible our eyes, our cameras... see more than what our brain... has the ability to consciouslyproject?" "[ Woman ] Well, the way our brain is wired up... we only see what we believe is possible." "U m, we match patterns that al ready... uh, exist within ourselves through conditioning." "So, a wonderful story that I believe is true... is that when the Indians-- the Native American Indians... on the Caribbean Islands saw Columbus's ships approaching... they couldn't see them at all." "Because it was so... unlike anything they had ever seen before, they couldn't see it." "[Man ] When Columbus's armada landed in the Caribbean... none ofthe natives were able to see the ships... even though they existed on the horizon." "The reason that they never saw the ships was because... they had no knowledge in their brains, or no experience, that clipper ships existed." "So the shaman starts to notice that there 's ripples out in the ocean, but he sees no ship... but he starts to wonder what's causing the effect." "So every day he goes out and looks and looks and looks." "And after a period oftime, he 's able to see the ships." "And once he sees the ships, he tells everybody else that ships exist out there." "Because everybody trusted and believed in him, they saw them also." "[ Explosion ]" "[ Man ] We create reality." "We're reality-producing machines." "We create the effects ofreality all the time." "[ Man ] We always perceive something after reflection in the mirror ofmemory." " [ Screaming ] - [ Gasps ] - [ Shutter Cl icks ]" "As far as whether or not we're just living in a big holodeck or not... it's a question we don't necessarily have a good answer to." "I think this is a big philosophical problem we have to deal with... in terms ofwhat science can say about ourworld... because we are always the observer in science." "So we are still always constrained... bywhat is ultimately coming into the human brain... that allows us to see and perceive the things we do." "So it is conceivable that all ofthis really is just a great illusion... thatwe have noway ofreally getting outside ofto seewhat is really out there." "Your brain doesn't know the difference between what's taking place out there... and what's taking place in here." "There is no "out there" out there independent ofwhat's going on in here." "You okay?" "." "I heard you scream earlier." "Was it another dream?" "." " [ Mouths Words ]" " You were an Indian... watching Columbus's ship materialize out ofthin air." "Wow." "And this medicine man kept hittingyou." "[ Gasps ] Cool." "That's" "Hey, maybe it was a past life or a parallel reality... or a future life." "Get real." "Or maybe that dream was trying to tell you the truth." "I guess it just depends on whatyou think is real." "Maybeyou should try different anxiety pills." "My pills are fine, okay?" "." "Thankyou." "Well, I have to go get dressed." "Mmm." "I hopeyou feel better, Amanda." "[DoorCloses ]" "God, Amanda." "You can be such an asshole." "[ Sighs ]" "[Man ] There actuallyare choices in the direction ofhow a life can go... that are contingent upon small-level quantum effects... not being washed out." "Fi rst of al l, let's tal k about the subatomic world... and then we'll talk about what it's telling us about reality." "The first thing I wanna tell you about the subatomic world... is it's totally a fantasy created by mad physicists trying to figure out... what the heck is goin' on when they do these little experiments." "By little experiments, I mean big energy in little spaces in little pieces oftime." "It gets pretty nutty at that realm ofthings... and so subatomic physics was invented to try to figure that all out." "We need a new science down there, and it's called quantum physics... and it is subject to a whole range of debatable hypotheses... thoughts, feelings, intuitions as to what the heck is really going on." "Matter is not what we have long thought it to be." "Uh" " To the scientists, matter has always been thought ofas sort ofthe ultimate... in that which is static and predictable." "Within all the atoms andmolecules, all the space within them... the particles take up an insignificant amount of the-- of the volume of an atom or molecule, the fundamental particles." "The rest ofit is vacuum." "What seems to happen is that particles appear and disappear all the time." "So where do they go when they're not here?" "." "Now, that question is tricky." "I'm gonna giveyou two answers-- Answer number one:." "They go into an alternative universe... where the people in that universe are asking the same question... about those particles when they come into our universe." "They say, "Where do they go?" [ Chuckles ]" "[Man ] There's a great mysterycalled the mystery ofthe direction oftime." "There's a certain sense in which the fundamental laws of physics that we have... don't make any interesting distinctions, say, between past and future." "Um, for example, it's a puzzle from the standpoint ofthe fundamental laws of physics... whywe should be able to... um, remember the past, um... and not have the same kind of epistemic access to the future." "It's a puzzle from the standpoint ofthese laws... whywe should think something like by acting now... we can affect the future but not the past." "These things-- that we have a different kind of epistemic access to the past and future... that we have a different kind of control by acting now... over the future than we do over the past... these things are so fundamental to the waywe experience the world... that, um-- um" "that it seems to me, not to be curious about them is to be... you know, three-quarters ofthe way to being dead." "Wanna shoot some hoops?" "." "Now, you don't have to be like that." "Come on and play." "Look." "He likes you." "Don'tyou have time for a little one-on-one?" "How long has it been since you played?" "." "[ Chuckles ] Come on." "You got the ball." "Take a shot." "No, no, no, milady." "Not from there." "It's out-of-bounds." "You gotta be on the court to be in play." "[ Sighs ]" "Welcome to Duke Reginald's Court of Unending Possibilities." "[ Sighs ]" " [ Grunts ]" " Court rules" " Gotta sink the last one." " That hurt." " It never touched you." " Right." " And it's not solid." "This ball is mostlyempty." "In fact, the universe is mostly empty." "[Man ] We like to think ofspace as emptyand matter as solid." "But in fact, there is essentially nothing to matter whatsoever." "It's completely insubstantial." "Take a look at an atom." "We think ofit as a kind ofhard ball." "Then we say, "Oh, well, not really." ""It's this little tiny point ofreally dense matter right at the center..." ""surrounded by a kind of fluffy probability cloud ofelectrons... popping in and out ofexistence. "" "But then it turns out that that's not even right." "Even the nucleus, which we think ofas so dense... pops in and out ofexistence just as readily as the electrons do." "The most solid thingyou can say about all this insubstantial matter... is that it's more like a thought-- it's like a concentrated bit ofinformation." "[ Man ] What makes up things are not more things... but what makes up thi ngs are ideas, concepts, information." "[ Whooshes ]" "And like I said, it never touches." "[Reginald] Those electrons build up a charge... andpush the other electrons awaybefore they touch." "So nobody touches nothin'." "Come on." "Putyour stuffdown." "Nobody's gonna take it." "Li ke I said, this is my court." "It's no problem." "[ Sighs ]" " How long has it been?" "." " I'll be late." "It's only in conscious experience that it seems that we move forward in time." "In quantum theory, you can also go backwards in time." "[Reginald] You can always go back in time." " [ Cheering] - [Shutter Clicking]" "[Buzzer Buzzes ]" "[ Cheering Fades ]" "What's the matter?" "Remember, it's empty." "How do you know this shit?" "." "I read Dr. Quantum comics." "Everybody thinks it's just kid stuff, but I know it's real." "That's how I do my magic on the court." "Yeah, I always choose the wonder boy first." " He's got the weirding way." " Well, Dr. Quantum says everybody's got it." "Everybody's doing it." "Doing it constantly, each and every time you look." "When you ain't lookin', it's like a wave." "When you are lookin', it's like a particle." "When you are not looking, there are waves of possibility." " [Ball Bouncing]" " When you are looking, there are particles of experience." "[Man ]A particle, which we think ofas a solid thing... really exists in a so-called "superposition, "" "a spread-out wave ofpossible locations... and it's in all ofthose at once." "The instance you check on it... it snaps into just one ofthose possible positions." "[ Man ] Quantum superposition implies that... a particle can be i n two or more places or states si m ultaneously." "And this is a very bizarre concept, and one of the hallmarks of the quantum world." "Superheroes use superposition... with the world being potential strips of reality until we choose." "Heroes choose what theywant-- being in many places at once, experiencing many possibilities all at once... and then collapsing on the one." "The question is, how far down the rabbit hole doyou wanna go?" "." "Nice shot." "[Man ] How can asystem oran object be in two ormore states at the same time?" "[Man ] How can a system oran object be in two or more states at the same time?" "[ Man ] It's very easy-- Instead ofthinking ofthings as things." "We all have a habit ofthinking that everything around us is already a thing... existing without my input, without my choice." "You have to banish that kind ofthinking." "Instead, you really have to recognize... that even the material world around us-- the chairs, the tables, the rooms, the carpet-- camera included-- all of these are nothing but possible movements of consciousness." "And I'm choosing moment to moment out ofthose movements... to bring my actual experience into manifestation." "This is the only radical thinking thatyou need to do." "But it is so radical-- It's so difficult... because our tendency is that the world is already out there... independent of my experience." "It is not." "Quantum physics has been so clear about it." "Heisenberg himself, codiscoverer of quantum physics... said atoms are not things, they're only tendencies." "So, instead ofthinking ofthings... you have to think of possibilities." "They're all possibilities of consciousness." "You now can see in numerous labs around the United States... objects that are large enough to be seen by the naked eye... and they are in two places simultaneously." " You can actuallytake a photograph ofthat." " [Shutter Clicks ]" "Now, I suppose ifyou showed a photograph, they'd say, "Oh." "Great." ""Here's this nice blob of colored light, and I see there's..." ""a bit of it over here and another bit-- Soyou've got a picture oftwo dots." "What's the big deal?"" "You say, "Look right in the chamber." "You can see it right there."" ""I see two things there." "No, no." "That's not two things" "That's one thing." "It's the same thing in two places."" "I'm not sure that people's jaw would drop about it... because I think" "I don't think people really believe it." "And I don't mean that people say, "Oh, you're lying," or "Oh, the scientists are confused."" "I-I think it is so mysterious thatyou can't even understand how amazing it is." "And then, furthermore, you've seen Star Trek and whatnot." ""Beam me up, Scotty." So it all seems sort of..." ""Oh, well, what does that really mean?"" "But you've gotta really stop and think about what that means" "That it's the same object and it's in two places at once." "When people tinkering the lab, and theyget angryabout things, and theyhave lunch... and they go home and they lead their lives... just as though nothing utterly astounding is happening... because that's how you have to go about it" "Andyet, there's this completely amazing magic... sitting right in front ofyour eyes." "[ Man ] Quantum physics calculates only possibilities... but ifwe accept this, then the question immediately comes... who, what, chooses among these possibilities... to bring the actual event ofexperience?" "So we directly, immediately see that consciousness must be involved." "The observer cannot be ignored." "[ Man ] We know what an observer does from a point ofview ofquantum physics... but we don't know who or what the observer actually is." "Doesn't mean we haven't tried to find an answer." "We've looked." "We've gone i nside ofyour head." "We've gone into every orifice you have... to find something called an observer." "And there's nobody home." "There's nobody in the brain." "There's nobody in the cortical regions ofthe brain." "There's nobody in the subcortical regions or the limbic regions ofthe brain." "There's nobody there called an observer." "And yet, we all have this experience ofbeing something called an observer... observing the world out there." "Is this the observer... and which is so intricate to understanding... the wacky, weird world... of quantum particles and how they react?" "." "Is this then the observer?" "." "[Man ] In mymodeling, the observeris the spirit... inside the four-layerbiobodysuit." "Andso, it's like the ghost in the machine." "It is the consciousness that's driving the vehicle... and it is observing the surround." "The four layers of the biobodysuit have al I ki nds of sensory systems... to pick up signatures from the surround." "[Horn Honking]" "[Dog Barking]" "[Woman ] Aw." "Good boy." "[ Chattering ]" "[Shutter Clicking]" "[Shutter Clicking]" "[Shutter Clicking]" "[ Phone Ringing, Vibrating]" "Where the hell are you?" "." "I 've got a studio full of people... but, oh, my God!" "There's no photographer." "Where, oh, where can she be?" "." "Aliens?" "." "Loch Ness monster?" "." "Or a hot date?" "." "In Washington, D.C., the so-called murder capital ofthe world... there was a big experiment in the summer of 1 993... where 4,000 volunteers came from a hundred countries... to collectively meditate for long periods oftime throughout the day." "It was predicted in advance that with such a sized group... you would have a 25% drop in violent crime... as defined by the F.B.I. in Washington that summer." "Well, the chief of police went on television saying that..." ""Look." "It's gonna take two feet ofsnow... to reduce crime by 25%% in Washington, D.C. this summer."" "But by the end, the police department became a collaborator and author ofthis study... because the results in fact showed a 25%%% drop in violent crime in Washington, D.C.... which we could predict on the basis of 48 previous studies... that had already been done on a smaller scale." "This leads naturally to wonder do people-- are people affecting the world of reality that they see?" "." "You betcha they are." "Every single one of us affects the reality that we see... even ifwe try to hide from that and playvictim." "We all are doin' it." "Just tell me whereyou are." "Good." "But hurry, will ya, please?" "." " Because these models are giving me a headache." " Ten minutes!" " [ Sighs ] - [Rattling]" "Oh-- [ Muttering ]" " [Train Departing] - [ Gasps ]" "[Woman ] Oursubwayexhibit comes to us fromJapan and Mr. Masaru Emoto." "Mr. Emoto became terribly interested... in the molecular structure ofwater and what affects it." "Now, water is the most receptive ofthe four elements." "Mr. Emoto thought perhaps it would respond to nonphysical events." "So he set up a series of studies, appl ied mental stimuli... and photographed it with a dark field microscope." "This first picture is a picture ofwaterfrom the Fujiwara Dam." "And this picture is the same water... after receiving a blessing from a Zen Buddhist monk." "Now in this next series ofpictures..." "Mr. Emoto printed out words, taped them to bottles of distilled water... and left them out overnight." "This first photograph is the picture ofthe pure distilled water-- just the essence ofitself." "These subsequent photographs, as you can see, are each different." "This is the "Chi of Love."" "And we move along here to "Thank You. "" "And you can see where he taped that, uh, to this bottle here." "But ifyou read Japanese, you already knew that. [ Chuckles ]" "Now, Mr. Emoto speaks of the thought orintent... being the driving force in all ofthis." "The science of how that actually affects the molecules is unknown... except to the water molecules, ofcourse." "And it's reallyfascinating whenyou keep in mind... that 90% ofour bodies are water." "Makes you wonder, doesn't it?" "." "I f thoughts can do that to water... imagine what our thoughts can do to us." "[ TrainApproaching]" "Absolutely thought alone can completely change the body." "Most people don't affect reality in a consistent, substantial way... because they don't believe they can." "Theywrite an intention... and then they erase it, because they think that's silly" "I mean" " I can't do that." "And then they write it again, and then they erase it." "So time average, it's a very small effect." "And it really comes down to the fact that they believe they can't do it." "Ifyou accept with every rudiment ofyour being... thatyou will walk on water, will it happen?" "." "Yes, it will." "Butyou know, it's, uh-- it's like positive thinking." "It's a wonderful idea, positive thinking... butwhat it usually means is that I have a little smear ofpositive thinking... covering a whole mass ofnegative thinking." "So thinking positive is not reallythinking positive." "It's just disguising the negative thinking thatwe have." "When we thinkofthings, then we make the reality more concrete than it is... and that's whywe become stuck." "We become stuck in the sameness of reality." "Because if reality is concrete, obviously, I am insignificant." "I cannot really change it." "But if reality is my possibility-- possibility of consciousness itself-- then immediately comes the question ofhow can I change it?" "." "How can I make it better?" "." "How can I make it happier?" "." "You see how we are extending the image of ourselves?" "." "In the old thinking, I cannot change anything... because I don't have any role at all in reality." "Reality is already there." "It's material objects moving in their own way... from deterministic laws... and mathematics determines what theywill do in a given situation." "I, the experiencer, have no role at all." "In the new view, yes, mathematics can give us something." "It gives us the possibilities that all these movements can assume." "But it cannot give us the actual experience that I'll be having in my consciousness." "I choose that experience." "And therefore, literally, I create my own reality." "It may sound like a tremendous, bombastic claim by some New Agey... without any understanding of physics whatsoever... but really quantum physics is telling us that." "[Electronica ]" "[Woman Singing In Foreign Language ]" "[Door Closes ]" "Hey!" "How was the shoot?" "." "Sucked. [ Sighs ]" " [ Continues ] - [ Stomps ]" "Your boss called." "He's worried about you." "[ Ends ]" "Amanda, I wanna thankyou for letting me stay here." "I know I'm a bit much sometimes... and that it's been tough after Bob and all." "[ Raspberries, Laughs ]" "And, um,you'vejust been so wonderful." "I mean, I make a mess and" "Well, I clean up afterwards, but it's not reallyyourstyle." "Sometimes I think you make me sane." "Me?" ". [ Laughs ]" "The day I make someone sane, they're in trouble. [ Laughs ]" "Anyway, um..." "I made you something as a thank-you gift." "Open it." "I went through your pictures and picked my favorite ones." "And it took me forever because there are so many good ones. [ Laughs ]" "This" "That's for all the wonderful photos you will be taking." " Oh!" " I've had a strange day." "Thankyou." "[Voices Overlapping, Echoing] What is mylife?" "Whyisyourlife?" "What is the purpose oflife?" "Where am I going?" "What happens when I die?" " Why is there anything at all?" " What is reality?" "[ Man At Exhibit ] It makes you wonder, doesn 't it?" "Ifthoughts can do that to water... imagine what our thoughts can do to us." "[ Water Running ]" " [ Voices Overlapping ] These" " Reality comes down to experiences." " Is this" " Successful" "Have you ever thought about what thoughts are made of?" "Is there a substance ofthought?" "[ Roommate ] I guess itjust depends on whatyou think is real." "[ Reginald] The world being possible timelines ofreality... unti I we choose." "[ Woman ] Are all realities in the quantum field existing simultaneously?" " [ Man ] My definition ofan addiction is something-- - [ Voices Overlapping ]" " Something that you can 't stop." " [ Man ] There are different worlds in which we live." "There 's the macroscopic world that we see." "There 's the world of our cells." "There 's the world of our atoms." "There 's the world of our nuclei." "These are each totally different worlds." "They have their own language." "They have their own mathematics." "They're notjust smaller-- Each is totally different." "But they're complementary, because I am my atoms... but I am also my cells." "I ' m also my macroscopic physiology." "I t's al I true." "They're just different levels of truth." "The deepest level of truth uncovered by science and by philosophy... is the fundamental truth of unity." "At that deepest subnuclear level of our reality... you and I are literally one" "[Echoing] one-- one-- one" " [Birds Twittering]" " I wake up in the morning... and I consciously create my day the way I want it to happen." "Now, someti mes... because my m i nd is examining all the things that I need to get done... it takes me a little bit to settle down and get to the point... ofwhere I am actually intentionally creating my day." "But here's the thing." "When I create my day... and out of nowhere little things happen... that are so unexplainable..." "I know that they are the process or the result of my creation." "And the more I do that, the more I build a neural net in my brain... that I accept that that's possible... it gives me the power and the incentive to do it the next day." "[Man Singing]" "[Woman ] In addiction, we have a supreme, beautiful opportunity... to decipher the difference between... our intangibility of our nobleness ofcharacter... and the day-to-day business ofhow that character is revealed... in a three-dimensional world through our bodies." "[ Singing Continues ]" "[ Shutter Clicks ]" " [ Shutter Clicks ] - [ Recessional]" " I hate weddi ngs." " [ Woman ] And what we will learn... is that addiction is... the feeling of a chemical rush... that is cascaded through the bodies... through a whole assortment of glands and ductless glands... and through the spinal fluid" "a feeling that somewould call... a sexual fantasy." "It onlytakes one sexual fantasy for a man to have a hard-on." "In otherwords, it only takes one thought here... for a man to have an erection in his member." "And yet, there was nothing outside ofhim that gave him that." "It was what was within him that gave him that." " [Ends ]" " Oh." "Oh." "[ Chuckles ] Hey, Amanda." "I-I didn't knowyou were there." "Guilty." "Awedding?" "." "Come on, Frank!" "[ Mouths Words ]" "This is a good assignment, ifyou'd see it that way." "What's to see?" "." ""I do." They did." "Aw, God, Amanda." "I mean, y-you live in your past... and everything with you is about "what happened."" "You hate churches." "You hate weddings." "You hate guys." "[ Sighs ]" "Now I wantyou to go scope it out." "Don't need to." "I got married there." "I know." "I took the pictures, remember?" "." "You got too many memories clouding yourvision." "Oh, Amanda, Amanda, Amanda." "You knowyou're the best technical photographer I have." "And I wanna have some greatpictures." "You know what?" "." "You need a good Polish wedding." " And watch out for those good Catholic boys, huh?" "." " You mean the priests?" "." " [ Laughs ] Come on." "Get outta here." " Bye." "When I was younger, um..." "I had lots of ideas about what God was." "Andnow I realize I'm not conscious enough... to truly understand what that concept means." "That I am at one with the great being that made me and brought me here... and that formed the galaxies and the universes, et cetera-- how did that get taken out of religion?" "." "It was not hard." "Most ofthe problems that religion and various philosophical movements... down through the centuries have produced... have been errors because that's where they're started" "That God is a disti nct separate bei ng from us... to whom I must offer worship, whom I must cultivate... humor, please and hope to attain a reward from at the very end ofmy life." "That is not what God is." "That is a blasphemy." "God is such a broad thing... um, some parts ofwhich-- most of the parts ofwhich... that are associated with organized religion... is something that I sort of recoil at." "It's something I think has done a lot ofharm to the world, done harm to women... done harm to oppressedpeoples, done harm to the World Trade Center." "And yet, and the same poi nt... we have the epitome of a great science." "The closest science has ever come... to explaining Jesus' interpretation that... the mustardseed was larger than the kingdom ofheaven... and the only science that can fit into that analogy is quantum physics." "Now, we have-- we have great technology... from antigravity magnets... and magnetic fields-- zero-point energy" "We have all that, and we still have this ugly, superstitious... backwater concept ofGod." "[Man ] People fall into line veryreadily when they're threatened... bythese cosmic sentences ofeverlasting punishment." "But this is not how God is." "And once you start to question the traditional images, caricatures ofGod... people feelyou are an agnostic or an atheist... or a subverter ofthe social order." "God m ust be greater than the greatest of human weaknesses... and indeed... the greatness of human skill." "That God must even transcend our most remarkable... to emulate nature in its absolute splendor." "How can any man orwoman sin against such a greatness of mind?" "." "How can any one little carbon unit... on Earth in the backwaters of... indeed, the MilkyWay, the boondocks... betray God Almighty?" "." "That is impossible." "The height of arrogance is the height of control... ofthose who create God in their own image." " [ShutterClicking] - [Man ] I nowpresent toyou..." " Mr. and Mrs. Richard "Buck" Filipowski." " [Recessional]" " [ Cheering] - [Shutter Clicking]" "[ Continues ]" "[Ends ]" "[ Woman ] Brain, when it fires its thoughts... is likened unto the landscape ofa thundercloud." "And the synaptic cleft is the sky between..." " the storm and the Earth-- the Earth receptor sight." " [ Electricity Crackl i ng ]" "Andyou see this foreboding dark cloud... boiling in the sky... andyou see electrical impulses moving through it... veins ofelectric light... and then you see it hit the ground." " The brain looks like a thunderstorm-- - [ Electricity Crackl i ng ] when it is presenting a coherent thought." " So no one is ever seeing the thought." " [ Thunderclap ]" "What they do see in neurophysics... is that they see a storm raging... around different quadrants ofthe brain." " [ Thunder Rumbling ]" " Those are areas that are mapped in the body... and what a person must be responding to-- a holographic image-- rage, m urder, hate... com passion, love." "[ Man ] The brain does not know the difference between... what it sees in its environment and what it remembers... because the same specific neural nets are then firing." "The brain is made up oftiny nerve cells called "neurons. "" "These neurons have tiny branches that reach out... and connect to other neurons to form a neural net." "Each place where they connect is incubated into a thought or a memory." "Now, the brain builds up all its concepts by the law ofassociative memory." "For example, ideas, thoughts and feelings... are all constructed and interconnected in this neural net..." " and all have a possible relationship with one another." " [ Electricity Crackl i ng ]" "The concept and the feeling oflove, for instance... is stored in this vast neural net." "But we build the concept oflove from many other different ideas." " Some people have love connected to disappointment." " [ Moani ng ]" "When they think about love, they experience the memory ofpain... sorrow, anger and even rage." "Rage may be linked to hurt, which may be linked to a person... which then is connected back to love." "We bui ld up models of how we see the world outside of us." "And the more information that we have, the more we refine our model one way or another." "And what we ultimately do is tell ourselves a story... about what the outside world is." "Any information that we process, any information that we take in from the environment... is always colored by the experiences that we've had... and an emotional response that we're having to what we're bringing in." "Who is in the driver's seat when we control our emotions orwe respond to our emotions?" "." "We knowphysiologicallythat nerve cells that fire together wire together." "Ifyou practice something over and over, those nerve cells have a long-term relationship." "Ifyou get angry on a daily basis, ifyou get frustrated on a daily basis... ifyou suffer on a daily basis... ifyou give reason for the victimization in your life... you're rewiring and reintegrating that neural net on a daily basis... and that neural net now has a long-term relationship... with all those other nerve cells called an "identity."" "We also know that nerve cells that don't fire togetherno longer wire together." "Theylose their long-term relationship... because every time we interrupt... the thought process that produces a chemical response in the body-- every time we interrupt it, those nerve cells that are connected to each other... start breaking the long-term relationship." "When we start i nterrupti ng and observi ng... not by stimulus and response and that automatic reaction... but by observing the effects it takes... then we are no longer the body-mind conscious emotional person... that's responding to its environment as ifit is automatic." " [Rock] - [Cheering, Applauding]" "[ Continues, Indistinct]" "[Man ] Does that mean emotions are good or emotions are bad?" "No, emotions are designed so that it reinforces chemically... something into long-term memory." "That's why we have them." "Al I emotion is is holographically imprinted chemicals." "The most sophisticated pharmacy in the universe is in here." "[Man ] There's a part ofthe brain called the hypothalamus... and the hypothalamus is like a little mini factory... and it is a place that assembles certain chemicals... that matches certain emotions that we experience." "And those particular chemicals are called "peptides. "" "They're small-chain amino acid sequences." "The body's basically a carbon unit... that makes about 20 different amino acids altogether... to formulate its physical structure." "The body is a protein-producing machine." "I n the hypothalam us, we take smal l-chai n proteins called peptides... and we assemble them into certain neuropeptides or neurohormones... that match the emotional states that we experience on a daily basis." "So there's chemicals for anger, and there's chemicals for sadness... and there's chemicals forvictimization." "There's chemicals forlust." "There's a chemical that matches... every emotional state that we experience." "And the moment that we experience that emotional state in our body or in our brain... that hypothalamus will immediately assemble the peptide... and then releases it through the pituitary into the bloodstream." "The moment it makes it into the bloodstream... it finds its way to different centers or different parts ofthe body." "Now, every single cell in the body..." " has these receptors on the outside." " [ Shutter Clicking ]" "[ Woman ] Now one cell can have thousands ofreceptors... studding its surface, kind ofopening up to the outside world." "And when a peptide docks on a cel l... it I iterally, uh, like a key going into a lock... sits on the receptorsurface and attaches to it... and kind ofmoves the receptor... and kind oflike a doorbell buzzing, sends a signal into the cell." " [ Buzzing ]" " I t's party ti me!" "[ Rock ]" "[ Shutter Cl icki ng ]" " [ Chatteri ng ] - [ Shutter Clicks ]" "[ Piano ]" "[ Man ] What happens in adulthood... is that most ofus who've had our glitches along the way... are operating in an emotionally detached place... or we're operating as iftoday were yesterday." " What is it?" "." " Mixed." "[ Man ] In either the disconnected place... or the overly emotional reactive place... because they've gone to an earlier time in reality... the person is not operating as an integrated whole." "[ Rock ]" "[ Shutter Cl icks ]" "[ Shutter Clicks ]" " [ Continues ] - [ Shutter Clicking ]" "Along the outside of the cel l... are these billions of receptor sites... that are really just receivers of incoming information." "A receptor that has a peptide sitting in it, um... changes the cell in manyways." "Itsets offa whole cascade ofbiochemical events... some ofwhich wind up with changes in the actual nucleus ofthe cell." " [ Shutter Clicks ]" " Hi." "When I grow up, I want to become a photographer just like you." " Oh?" "." " Got any tips?" "." " Take lots of pictures." " Thanks!" "Each cell is definitely alive... and, uh, each cell has a consciousness... particularly ifwe define consciousness... as the point ofview of an observer." "There is always the perspective ofthe cell." "[ Male Cell Grumbles ]" "[ Female Cell Murmurs ]" "[Male Cell #2, Indistinct ]" "[ Woman ] In fact, the cell is... the smallest unit ofconsciousness in the body." "I 'm hungry!" " [ Disco ]" " Oh." "Yeah." " [ Disco ]" " Oh." "Yeah." "[ Male Cell] Oh, yeah!" " We've commandeered an entire serving platter." " [ Belching ]" "[ Grunts ]" "[ Exhales ]" " [Dance ] - [ Grunts ]" "Yeah!" "Keep it coming." "Keep it coming." "Yeah." " Delicious." " Oh, yeah." "Oh." "[ Belches ]" "Well, my definition ofan addiction is something really simple:." "something thatyou can'tstop." "[Continues ]" "Don't make me suffer please." "Oh, I hurt!" "[ Gasping ]" "[Man ] We bring to ourselves situations that will fulfill... the biochemical craving ofthe cells ofour body... by creating situations that meet our chemical needs." "I t always happens to me." " Every day!" " Why me?" "." "And the addict will always need a little bit more... in order to get a rush or a high ofwhat they're looking for chemically." "Don't tell me to calm down!" "You're always bossing me around." "So my definition really means that ifyou can't control your emotional state... you must be addicted to it." "Oh, I knew this was gonna happen." "That's not what we agreed upon!" "You're not going to screw me" "[Man ] Why don'tyou read the contract?" " You won't do anything, so I will." " No, no, ma'am." "Don't dip your half-eaten shrimp back into the cocktail sauce." "Screw you and your health codes!" "I am the bride's sister." "I'llstick myass in the cocktailsauce ifl damn wellplease." "What are you standing there for?" "." "Get out and serve." "Make sure everybody has a full platter." "Fun, fun, fun!" "Listen, Steven." "You won't do anything about it, so" "[ Girl's Voice ] I want to be a photographerjust like you." "[ Man Shouting, Indistinct ]" "[ People Shouting, Murmuring ]" " [ Continues ] - [ Belches ]" "[ Shutter Cl icki ng ]" "[ Ends ]" "So how can anyone real ly say they're in love with a specific person... for example?" "." "They're only in love with the anticipation... ofthe emotions they're addicted to." "Because the same person could fall out offavor the next week by not complying." "My goodness, doesn't that change the landscape... of our emotional outlook on personal needs and identities?" "." "[Rock]" " [ Moaning ] - [ Grunts ]" "Oh, yeah." "Oh!" " [ShutterClicks ]" " Amanda!" "[ Continues ]" " [ Needle Scratches ]" " How can you not fucking see?" "." "No!" "No, no, no, no." "You got the-- the punch line wrong." "It's a-- It's a photographer's joke." "Go on about your, uh" " Uh, music?" "." " [Rock]" "Are" " Areyou okay?" "." "Well, I" "I saw that groom fucking some girl!" "Uh, when?" "." "Just now!" "I was with the, uh-- the groom" "Hey, I can read lips!" "Uh, I'm sorry." "Uh, I was with the groom just now." "Yeah, he loves Paulette." " Where?" "." " [ Mouthing Words ]" "[ Woman Laughs ]" " [ Laughs ] - [ Man Clears Throat ]" "Polacks" " They all look the same in a tux." "You're not Polish, are" " Uh, hi." " Thanks." "Here." " [ Exhales ]" "This" " This'll help." " Oh, thankyou." " No problem. [ Clears Throat ]" "That was in my mouth." "Forget it." "[Continues ]" "[ Exhales ]" "So, what's your name?" "." " Elliot." "Hi." " Yeah." " It's a" " I'm Amanda." "Hey, Amanda." "I should've asked you what your name" " You photograph a lot ofweddings?" "." " Yeah." "I hate it." "I'm doing the thing again with my hands." "I'm sorry." "We are emotions andemotions are us." "Again I can't separate emotions." "When you consider that, um... every aspect ofyour digestion... every sphincter that opens and closes... every group of cells that come in for nourishment... and then moves out to, um... heal something or repair something" "Those are all under the influence ofthe molecules of emotion." "I mean, it's this total buzz." "[Man ] Soyouask ifemotions are bad." "Emotions are not bad." "They're life." "They color the richness ofour experience." "It's our addiction that's the problem." "The thing that most people don 't realize is that... when they understand that they are addicted to emotions" " Another dri nk?" "." " [ Man ] it's notjust psychological." "It's biochemical." "Think about this." "Heroin uses the same receptor mechanisms on the cells... that our emotional chemicals use." "It's easy to see then that ifwe can be addicted to heroin... then we can be addicted to any neural peptide, any emotion." " T o the groom!" " To the groom." "Whoo!" " What's up, guys?" "." " What's up, man?" "." " Hello." " What do we need?" "." " Some foxes." " Who put out." "Yeah, baby!" "Cheers." "So" "[ Woman ] The relevant search command that's going on... is related to finding a certain emotional state." "I mean, we can't even direct our eyes... without having an emotional aspect to it." "[ Cow Moos ]" "[ Dog Barks ]" "[ Cow Moos ]" "Oh." "Oh, gosh." "She wouldn't fal I for me." "Oh, mama!" "Whoo!" "What the hell are you waitin'for?" "Come on, ya little pussies!" "Geez!" "I can't believe you guys!" "What areyou" " Ooh!" "Come on." "Come on." "Just get the hell out ofthe way." "[ Exhales ] Hi there, honey!" "Come on, baby." "You knowyou want it." "Oh, don't give me that look." "Now... what about people who are addicted to sex?" "." "[ Male Cell Muttering]" "Whoa!" " Whew!" " Hello there, big boy." "Is there a rocket in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?" "." "[ Giggling ]" "[ Giggling Continues ]" "[WolfWhistle ]" "The lights are on" "Butyou're not home" "Yourmindis notyour own" " Yeow!" " Yourheartsweats" "Yourbodyshakes" "Yourkiss is what it takes" "You can't sleep, oh" "You can't eat" "There's no doubt you're in deep" "Your throat is tight You can't breathe" "Another kiss is allyou need" "Whoa, you like to think" "Thatyou're immune to the stuff" " Oh, yeah - [ Cel Is Mutteri ng ]" "It's closer to the truth to sayyou can't get enough" "You knowyou're gonna have to face it You're addicted to love" "You see the signs butyou can't read" "You're running at a different speed" " Your heart beats in double time" " Snap out of it!" "Over here!" "Another kiss andyou'll be mine" "A one-track mind You can't be saved" "Obl ivion is all you crave" "Ifthere's some" " I want to hear some" " Hold on." "Would you not touch anything?" "." "That's very expensive equipment." "All right?" "." "Whoa,you like to think" "That you're immune to the stuff" "Oh, yeah" " [ Belches ]" " I want to hear some polka music, okay?" "." "These people want to hearsome polka music." "You can't have a Polish wedding..." " without polka music!" " Might as well face it You're addicted to love" "Might as well face it You're" "No!" "Would you leave it alone?" "." "Keep your-- [ Bleeps ]" "How can you have a Polish wedding without any-- [ Bleeps ] Polish music?" "." " Getyour-- [ Bleeps ] hands off my equipment!" " [ Gasping ]" " [ Train Whistle Blows ]" " Like I said before... it ain't a Polish wedding without a polka!" "[Polka ]" "[Ends ]" "[Slow Rock]" "[Crowd Chattering, Applauding]" "[Woman ] Ourmind literally creates ourbody." "So it all starts in the cell." "The cell is a protein-producing machine... but it gets its signal from the brain." "One ofthe things about receptors is they change in their sensitivity." "I f a given receptor for a given drug or i nternal juice... is being bombarded for a long time at a high intensity... it will literally shrink up." "There will be less ofthem." "Orit willbe hookedup insuch a way... that it is desensitized or downregulated." "So the same amount ofdrug orinternaljuice... will elicit a much smaller response." "[ Thunderclap ]" "[ Cells Whimpering ]" " [ Bombs Whistle ] - [ Whimpering Continues ]" "[Machine Gun Fire ]" "[ Gun Fire Continues ]" "[ Screams ]" "Ifwe're bombarding the cell with the same attitude and the same chemistry... over and over again on a daily basis... when that cell finally decides to divide... when it produces a sister cell or a daughter cell... that next cell will have more receptor sites... for those particular emotional neuropeptides... and less receptor sites... forvitamins, minerals, nutrients, fluid exchange... or even the release ofwaste products or toxins." "Now, allaging is the result ofimproperprotein production." "What happens when we age?" "Our skin gets-- loses elasticity." "Well, elastin is a protein." "What happens to our enzymes?" "." "We don't digest as well." "What happens to our synovial fluid?" "." "Those are proteins that become brittle and stiff." "What happens to our bones?" "." "They become thin." "So allaging is a result ofimproperprotein production." "So then the question arises... does it really matter what we eat?" "." "And does nutrition really have an effect... if the cell doesn't even have the receptor sites... after 20 years of emotional abuse... to even receive, or to let in... the nutrients that are necessary for its health?" "." "[ No Audible Dialogue ]" "Okay, guys." "It's time fora course correction... on our trajectory, along the path of our adventure." "And that course correction is the movement to a new paradigm... just an expansion ofthe old-- just as the universe is larger than we thought it was in our modeling." "Andit's always largerthan we think it is." "I hateyou." "[ Sighs ]" "I hate you." "[ Screams ]" "You idiot!" "You suck!" "Look at you!" "You're fat!" "You're ugly!" "You are worth nothing!" "You're getting old!" "I hateyou!" "[ Panting ]" "[WaterDripping]" "It makes you wonder, doesn't it?" "." "Ifthoughts can do that to water... imagine what our thoughts can do to us." "[Woman ] No one has ever came along... and ever given you sufficient, intelligent knowledge... about your beautiful self-- how you work from the inside out." "Why do you have addictions?" "." "Because you have nothing better." "You have dreamt of nothing better... because no one has ever taught you how to dream better." "[ Laughing ]" "[Woman ] Do I think thatyou are bad?" "I don't thinkyou're bad." "Do I thinkyou're good?" "I don't thinkyou're good either." "I thinkyou're God." "[ Laughing Continues ]" "In general, the field ofpsychiatry really doesn't... allow for enough... freedom of action on people's part... meaning an awful lot of problems-- not all of them, to be sure... but an awful lot of problems that get labeled as psychological problems... really amount to people making rotten choices." "And they ought to be instructed to make different ones." "Can I" "Wow. [Laughs ] um, borrow some toothpaste?" "." "Thanks." "[Man ] When I talk about "we"disappearing..." "I don't mean that we physically disappear." "What I mean is that we move out ofthe area ofthe brain... that has to do with our personality... that has to do with our association to people, our association to places... our association to things and times and events." "We don 't exist in the associative centers in our brain... that reaffirms our identity and reaffirms our personality." "For the average person in the world who lives life... and considers their life boring or uninspiring... it's because they've made no attempt... to gain knowledge and information that will inspire them." "They' re so hypnotized by thei r envi ronment... through the media, through television... through people living and creating ideals... that everybody struggles to become... that no one can actually become... in terms of physical appearance... and definitions ofbeauty and valor... that are all illusions... that most people surrender and live their life in mediocracy." "And they may live that life and the soul may never really-- their desire may never really rise to the surface... so they maywant to be something else." "But ifit does rise to the surface... and, uh, they ask themselves ifthere is something more" "Or, why am I here?" "." "What is the purpose oflife?" "." "Where am I going?" "." "What happens when I die?" "." "Theystart to ask those questions." "Theystart to flirt and interact with the perception... that they may be having a nervous breakdown... and in reality, what they're doing is that their old concepts... ofhow they viewed their life and the world start to fall apart." "We 're in completely new territory in our brain... and because we 're in completely new territory... we 're rewiring the brain..." "Iiterally reconnecting to a new concept." "Then ultimately it changes us from the inside out." "Ifl change my mind, will I change my choices?" "Ifl change my choices, will my life change?" "Why can't I change?" "." "What am I addicted to?" "." "What wi I I I lose that I 'm chemically attached to... and what person, place, thing, time or event... that I'm chemically attached to that I don't want to lose... because I may have to experience the chemical withdrawal from that?" "." "Hence the human drama." "[Answering Machine Beeps ]" "Amanda, it's Bob, and I'mjust calling to say..." "I hope that you can come tonight." "I really want to see you." "I, uh, really want to talk to ya." "I know we can work things out." "[ Woman ] What's the only planet in the Milky Way... that has habitation that is steeped... in enormous subjugation ofreligion?" "You know why that is?" "It's because people have set up right and wrong." "[ Man ] Ifl do this, I'm going to get punished by God." "I f I do the other thi ng, I 'm goi ng to get rewarded." "This is a really poor description... that tries to map out a path in life for us to follow... but with deplorable results." "Because there really is no such thing as good or bad." "We're judging things far too superficially that way." "Does that mean you're in favor ofsin and licentiousness and depravity?" "." "No." "It simply means thatyou need to improve... your expression and understanding ofwhatyou're dealing with here." "There are things that I do, and I know they'll evolve me." "There are other things that will not evolve me." "But it's not goodorbad." "There's no God waiting to punishyou... becauseyou did one or the other." "[ Woman ] There is no God condemning people." "Everyone is gods." "At the same time, God is, um-- is this sort of placeholder name... for those parts of our experience of the world... which are somehow transcendent, somehow sublime." "I have no idea what God is." "Yet I have an experience that God is." "There is something very real about this presence called God... although I have no idea how to define God... to see God as a person or a thing." "I can't" " I can't seem to do it." "It's kind oflike asking a human being to explain what God is... is similar to asking a fish to explain thewater in which the fish swims." "God is a superposition of all the spirit from all things." "[Woman] Youare a Godin the making... andyou have to walk this path." "But someday,you have to love the abstract... as much asyou love the condition ofaddiction." "The only way that I wi I I ever be great to myself... is not what I do to my body... but what I do to my mind." "[Man ] So ifwe're consciously designing our destiny... and ifwe're consciously, from a spiritual standpoint... throwing in with the idea... that our thoughts can affect our reality or affect our life... 'cause reality equals life... then I have this I ittle pact that I have when I create my day." "I say, "I 'm taking this time to create my day..." ""and I'm infecting the quantum field." ""Now, ifin fact the observer's watching me the whole time that I'm doing this..." ""and there is a spiritual aspect to myself..." ""then show me a sign today thatyou paid attention..." ""to anyone ofthese things that I created..." ""and bring them in a way that I won't expect..." ""so I'm as surprised at my ability to be able to experience these things... and make it so that I have no doubt that it's come from you."" "So the brain is capable of millions of different things... that people just really should learn... howincredible theyactuallyare and howincredible theirminds actuallyare... and that not only do they have this unbelievable thing within their head... that can do so many things for them and can help us learn and can actually change and adapt... it can make us something better than what we actually are... and it can actually help us to transcend ourselves" "There may be some way that it can actual ly take us... to a higher level of our existence... where we can actually understand the world in a deeperway... where we can understand ourrelationship to things andpeople in a deeper way... and we can ultimately make more meaning for ourselves in our world." "We can show that there 's a spiritual part ofour brain... but it's a part that we all can have access to and it's something that we can all do." "[ Man ] We have to formulate what we want... and be so concentrated on it and so focused on it... and have so much ofour awareness ofit... that we lose track ofourselves." "We lose track oftime." "We lose track of our identity." "And the moment we become so involved in that experience... that we lose track of ourselves, we lose track of time... that picture is the only picture that's real." "And everybody's had that experience... when they've made up their mind that they've wanted something." "That's quantum physics in action." "That's manifesting reality." "That's the observer in full effect." "[Man ] Your consciousness influences others aroundyou." "It influences material properties." "It influences your future." "You are cocreating your future." "[ Man ] Show me a sign today that you paid attention... to any one ofthese things that I created... and bring them in a way that I won't expect... so I'm as surprised at my ability to be able to experience these things... and make it so that I have no doubt that it's come from you." "[ Man ] Do we really know each other?" "[ Man #2 ] What is my life?" "[ Man #3 ] Consciousness ofreligion is something fundamental." "[ Woman ] Have you ever seen yourself... through the eyes ofsomeone else thatyou have become?" "What an initiation." "Have you ever stopped for a moment and looked atyourself... through the eyes ofthe ultimate observer?" "[ Man ] I am much more than I think I am." "I can be much more even than that." "I can influence my environment, the people." "I can influence space itself." "I can influence the future." "I am responsible for all those things." "I and the surround are not separate." "They're part of one." "I'm connected to it all." "I'm not alone." "Knowing that there 's this interconnectedness ofthe universe... that we are al I i nterconnected and that we are connected to the universe... at its fundamental level..." "I think is as good an explanation for spirituality as there is." "It is my belief that our purpose here... is to develop our gifts ofintentionality... and learn how to be effective creators." "We are here to be creators." "We are here to infiltrate space... with ideas and mansions ofthought." "We are here to make something ofthis life." "To acknowledge the quantum self... to acknowledge the place where we really have choice... to acknowledge mind" "When that shift ofperspective takes place... we saythat somebody has been enlightened." "Quantum mechanics allows for the intangible... phenomenon of freedom... to be woven i nto human nature." "[ Man ] Quantum physics, very succinctlyspeaking... is a physics ofpossibilities." "It opens fundamentally the question ofwhose possibilities... and who chooses from these possibilities... to give us the actual event ofexperience." "The only answer that is satisfactory both logically and meaningfully... is the answer that consciousness is the ground ofall being." "We m ust pursue knowledge... without any interference of our addictions... and ifwe can do that, we will manifest knowledge in reality... and our bodies will experience it... in new ways, in new chemistry, in new holograms... new elsewheres ofthought... beyond ourwildest dreams." "All of us one daywill reach the level ofthe avatars... that we have read about in history-- the Buddhas and theJesus." "[Woman ] Welcome to the kingdom ofheaven... withoutjudgment, without hate... without testing, without anything." "That we simply are has allowed this reality we call real... from the power ofintangibility... to pull out ofinertness, action-- chaos-- and hold it into its form... and we call it matter." "[ Ship Horn Blowing ]" " [ Bell Rings ] - [ Bird Squawking ]" "[ Man ] How can we measure the effects?" "We get to live our life and see then ifsomewhere in our lives... something's changed." "[ Bird Continues Squawking ]" "[ Man ] And then ifit has changed... we become the scientists to our life... which is the whole reason why we 're here." "[ Bell Rings ]" "[ Horn Blowing ]" "[ Man ] Don 'tjust take it at face value." "Test it out and see whether it's true." " Hey, you' re back." " I 'm back." " So you never answered my question." " What question?" "." "How far down the rabbit hole do you want to go?" "." "Ponder that for a while." "Myname's DavidAlbert." "Um..." "I, uh, got a Ph.D. in theoretical physics." "Istudiedbiochemistry at Rutgers University... and then went to chiropractic college... at Life University in Atlanta, Georgia." "My postgraduate training is in anatomy and physiology... neurochemistry, neurophysiology and genetics." "I study quantum physics." "I sometimes teach it." "I have written a book on quantum physics and many books... explicating the meaning of quantum physics." "AftermyPh.D. from Harvard, I went to CERN... a European laboratory for particle research... and then joined faculty at Stanford." "And mywork there has been the development ofunified quantum field theories." "I have about a hundred publications in this area, but perhaps I'm best known... for the discovery of supersym metric fl i pped SU 5... grand unified field theory." "I make my living as an anesthesiologist... and every day as I put my patients to sleep..." "I kind ofwonder where they go and why they're there in the first place." "That's one of the reasons that attracted me... to anesthesia and the study of consciousness." "Myname is Miceal Ledwith... and formost ofmylife I was a professor oftheology." "I'm Dr. Daniel Monti." "I'm a physician... with specialty training in psychiatry and human behavior." "I 'm on the ful l-ti me faculty at the J efferson Medical College." "I actually got very interested in studying... this whole topic ofthe brain andspirituality... because it had to do with the questions I was asking since I was a child... about realityand how we understood truth and what was real." "As I grew up and as I realized that... while spirituality was, in some senses... a very important part oftrying to find those answers... science also was a very crucial part." "I was ultimately looking for some way... ofbringing those two forces together." "Well, myname is Candace Pert... and I'm a professor at Georgetown in the medical school." "Here we are actually filming great thinkers." "Everyone in this room is a great thinker... now that we got 'em thinking." "That's always a trick, isn't it?" "." "Ishouldmake it clearthat I'm a graduate student in physics." "I'm not a full-fledged theoretical physicist yet." "Uh, but if fortune smiles on me... and I continue to work like a dog on myproblem sets and exams and whatnot... eventually what I hope to do with this is-- is to applyfundamental quantum theory... to quantum i nformation processing." "So I decided, well, ifl gave up being department chairman... and ifl gave up all my professional committees... and I gave up all my government committees, I would have a block oftime... that I could put to work." "Of course I gave up al I my power positions... butyou have to sacrifice something." "I had to keep my day job because my family needed to be fed." "I presume thatyou're asking me how a scientist can sound this wacko... because I must be sounding wacko." "It's really an interesting question." "Ifyou studyscience long enough... and seriously enough and dig deeply enough... ifyou don't come out feel i ng wacko about it... you haven't understood a thing."