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--quantum physics--

--advanced quantum
mechanical iceberg--

--of possible--

--quantum mechanics
allows for--

--supreme mind--

--brain's capable
of millions--

possibilities of biochemical--

--emotional response--

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--

So how can you continue
to see the world as real

if the self that is determining
it to be real is intangible?

[music playing]

Are all realities
existing simultaneously?

Is there a possibility that all
potentials exist side by side?

Have you ever seen
yourself through the eyes

of someone else that
you have become?

And looked at yourself
through the eyes

of the ultimate observer?

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.

We can't explain it.

And anybody who gets too
lost in trying-- anybody

who spends too much time trying
to explain it is likely to get

lost forever down the rabbit
hole of mysteriousness.

I think the more you
look at quantum physics,

the more mysterious and
wondrous it becomes.

Quantum physics, in
very succinctly speaking,

is a physics of possibilities.

These are questions-- these
are addressing questions

of how the world feels
to us, of whether there's

a difference between the
way the world feels to us

and the way it really is.

Have you ever thought about
what thoughts are made of?

I think some of the things
we're seeing with the children

today is a sign that the
culture is in the wrong paradigm

and not appreciating
the power of thought.

Every age, every generation
has its built-in assumptions

that the world is flat, that
the world is round, et cetera.

There are hundreds of
hidden 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, if
history's 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 of the need

to feel responsible, and
often enough so does religion.

But I think if you 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 going to tell
you what the answer is

because you're old enough
to decide for yourself.

Is everyone a mystery?

Is everyone an enigma?

They most certainly are.

Asking yourself
these deeper questions

opens up new ways of
being in the world.

It brings in a
breath of fresh air.

It makes life more joyful.

The real trick to life
is not to be in the know,

but be in the mystery.

It's time to get wise.

[music playing]

Why do we keep recreating
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 of potentials

that exists around
us, how come we

keep recreating
the same realities?

Isn't it amazing that we have
options and potentials that

exist, but we're
unaware of them?

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?

You've been conditioned to
believe that the external world

is more real than
the internal wold.

This new model of science
says just the opposite.

It says what's
happening within us

will create what's
happening outside of us.

There's a physical reality
that is absolutely rock solid,

and yet the only-- if you
want to 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.

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.

And there were philosophers
in the past that said, look,

if I 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
of it being real.

Scientific experiments have
shown that if we take a person

and hook their brains up to
certain PET scans or computer

technology and ask them to
look at a certain object,

and they watch certain
areas of the brain light up.

And then they've asked
them to close their eyes

and now imagine
that same object.

And when they imagined
that same object,

it produced the same areas
of the brain to light up,

as if they were actually
visually looking at it.

So it caused scientist to back
up and ask this question--

so who sees, then?

Does the brain see
or do the eyes see?

And what is reality?

Is reality what we're
seeing with our brain

or is reality what 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 neuronets are

then firing.

So then it asks the
question, what is reality?

We're bombarded by huge
amounts of information.

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.

And finally, what is
bubbling up to consciousness

is the one that's the
most self-serving.

The brain processes 400
billion bits of information

a second, but we're only
aware of 2,000 of those.

But our awareness of those
2,000 bits of information

are just about the environment,
our body, and about time.

[music playing]

We're living in a
world where all we see

is the tip of the iceberg.

The classical tip of an immense
quantum mechanical iceberg.

Hey, wow.

You got a lot of
shots to develop?

No.

Oh, bummer.

Well, I'll catch you later.

[music playing]

If the brain is processing
400 billion bits of information,

and then our awareness
is only on 2,000,

that means reality's happening
in the brain all the time,

it's receiving that
information, and yet we

haven't integrated it.

The eyes are like 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?

Now, this is important.

For example, this camera is
seeing a lot more around me

than what is here,
because it has

no objection and no judgment.

The only movie that's
playing in the brain

is what we have
the ability to see.

So is it possible
our eyes or camera

see more than what our
brain has the ability

to consciously project?

Well, the way our
brain is wired up,

we only see what we
believe is possible.

We match patterns that already
exists 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' 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.

When Columbus' armada
landed in the Caribbean,

none of the 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 is 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 of time,
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.

[music playing]

We create reality.

We're reality
producing machines.

We create the effects
of reality all the time.

We always perceive
something after reflection

in the mirror of memory.

[screams]

As far as whether or not we're
just looking in a big holodeck

or not, it's a question
that we don't necessarily

have a good answer to.

I think this is a big
philosophical problem

that we have to deal with in
terms of what science can say

about our world, because we are
always the observer in science.

So we are still
always constrained

by what is ultimately coming
into the human brain that

allows us to see and perceive
the things that we do.

So it is conceivable
that all of this

really is just a
great illusion that we

have no way of really
getting outside of

to see what 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 of what's
going on in here.

[knocks]

You OK?

I heard you scream earlier.

Was it another dream?

You're an Indian, watching
Columbus' ship materialize out

of thin air.

Wow.

And this medicine
man kept hitting you.

Cool!

This, hey, maybe it was a past
life or a parallel reality,

or a future life?

Get real.

Or maybe that dream was
trying to tell you the truth?

I guess it just depends
on what you think is real.

Maybe you should try
different anxiety pills.

My pills are fine, OK.

Thank you.

Well, I have to
go get dressed.

[yelps]

I hope you feel
better, Amanda.

[music playing]

God, Amanda, what
a possessive asshole.

Fuck!

[music playing]

They're actually hard
choices in the direction

of how a life can go that are
contingent upon small level

quantum effects not
being washed out.

First of all, let's talk
about the subatomic world.

And then, we'll talk about what
it's telling us about reality.

The first thing I want tell
you about a subatomic world

is it's totally
a fantasy created

by mad physicists trying to
figure out what the heck is

going on when they do
these little experiments.

By little experiments I mean
big energy in little spaces

and little pieces of time.

It gets pretty nutty at
that realm of things.

And so subatomic
physics was intended

to try to figure that all out.

We need a new science down there
that'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.

To the scientists,
matter has always

been thought of as
sort of the ultimate

in that which is
static and predictable.

Within all the
atoms and molecules,

all the space within
that, the particles

take up an insignificant
amount of the volume of an atom

or molecule-- the
fundamental particles.

The rest of it 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 going to give
you 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?

There's a great mystery
called the mystery

of the direction of time.

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.

For example, it's a
puzzle, from the standpoint

of the fundamental
laws of physics,

why we should be able
to remember the past

and not have the same kind of
epistemic access to the future.

It's a puzzle, from the
standpoint of these laws, why

we 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 the 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 way

we experience the world that it
seems to me not to be curious

about them is to be 3/4
of the way to being dead.

[music playing]

You want to shoot some hoops?

Why do you have to be like that?

Come on and play!

Look, he likes you.

Don't you have time for
a little one-on-one?

How long has it been
since you played?

Come on, you've got the ball.

Take a shot.

No, no, no, my lady,
not from there.

That's out of bounds.

You've got to be on the
court to be in play.

Welcome to Duke Reginald's
court of unending possibilities.

[music playing]

Court rules, gotta
sink the last one.

That hurt.

It never touched you.

And it's not solid.

This ball is mostly empty.

In fact, the universe
is mostly empty.

We like to think of space as
empty and 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 of it as a
kind of hard ball.

Then we say, oh, well,
no, not really, it's

this little tiny point
of really dense matter

right at the center, surrounded
by a kind of fluffy probability

cloud of electrons popping
in and out of existence.

But then it turns out that
that's not even right.

Even the nucleus, which
we think of as so dense,

pops in and out of
existence just as readily

as the electrons do.

The most solid thing
you can say about all

this insubstantial matter is
that it's more like a thought,

it's like a concentrated
bit of information.

What makes up things are not
more things, but what makes up

things are ideas,
concepts, information.

And like I said,
it never touches.

[music playing]

Those electrons
build up a charge

and push the other electrons
away before they touch.

So nobody touches nothing.

Come on, put your stuff down.

Nobody's going to take it.

Like I said, this is my court.

There's no problem.

[music playing]

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.

You can always
go back in time.

[music playing]

What's the matter?

Remember, it's empty.

How do you know these things?

I read Dr. Quantum comics.

Everybody thinks it's just kid
stuff, but I know it's real.

It's how I do my
magic on the court.

Yeah, I always choose
the wonder boy first.

He's got the weird [inaudible].

Dr. Quantum says
everybody's got it.

Everybody's doing it,
doing it constantly,

each and every time you look.

When you ain't looking,
it's like a wave.

When you are looking,
it's like a particle.

When you are not looking,
there are waves of possibility.

When you are looking, then there
are particles of experience.

A particle, which we
think of as a solid thing,

really exists in the so-called
superposition, a spread

out wave of possible locations.

And it's in all
of those at once.

The instant you
check on it, it snaps

into just one of those
possible positions.

Quantum superposition
implies that a particle

can be in two places, two
or more places or states

simultaneously.

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 they want.

Being in many places at once,
experiencing many possibilities

all at once, and then
collapsing onto one.

The question is how far down the
rabbit hole do you want to go?

[music playing]

Nice shot!

How can a system or object
be in two or more states

at the same time?

There's [inaudible]
instead of thinking

of things as things we all
have the habit of thinking

that everything around us
is already a thing, existing

without my input,
without my choice.

You have to banish
that kind of thinking.

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

consciousness.

And I'm choosing moment to
moment out of those moments

to bring my actual experience
into manifestation.

This is the only radical
thinking that you 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 the.

Heisenberg himself, who
discovered quantum physics,

said atoms are not things,
they're only tendencies.

So instead of
thinking of things,

you have to think
of possibilities.

There are 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 actually take
a photograph of that.

Now, I suppose if you showed
a photograph, they'd say, oh,

great, here's this nice
blob of colored light.

And I see there's a bit of it
over here and a little bit--

so you've got to
picture two dots.

What's the big deal?

And if so, what, well, look,
but look right in the chamber.

You know you can see it, Rick.

Oh, I see two things there.

Oh, no, 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

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 think it is so mysterious
that you can't even

understand how amazing it is.

And then, furthermore,
you know you've

seen Star Trek and what
not, beam me up, Scotty,

so it all seems sort
of, oh well, you

know, what does
that really mean?

But you've got to
really stop and think

about what that means.

That it's the same object and
it's in two places at once.

And people think
we're in the lab,

and they get angry about
things, and they have lunch,

and they go home, and they
lead their lives, just as

though nothing
utterly astounding

is happening,
because, of course,

that's how you have
to go about it.

And yet, there's this completely
amazing magic sitting right

in front of your eyes.

Quantum physics calculates
only possibilities.

But if we accept this, then
the question immediately

becomes, who what chooses
among these possibilities

to bring the actual
event of experience.

So we do exactly immediately
see that consciousness

must be involved.

The observer cannot be ignored.

We know what an observer
does from a point in view

of quantum 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 inside of your 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 of the brain,

there's nobody in the
subcortical regions

or the limbic
regions of the brain.

There's nobody there
called an observer.

And yet, we all
have this experience

of being something called
an observer, observing

the world out there.

Is this is 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?

In my modeling the
observer is the spirit

inside the four-layered
bio body suit.

And so 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 bio body suit

have all kinds of
sensory systems

to pick up signatures
from the surroundings.

[car horn]

[music playing]

[camera shutter]

[camera shutter]

[camera shutter]

[phone rings]

Where the heel 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?

A hot date?

In Washington, DC, the
so-called murder capital

of the world, there
was a big experiment

in the summer of 1993,
where 4,000 volunteers

came from 100 countries
to collectively meditate

for long periods of
time throughout the day.

It was predicted in advance
that with such a sized group,

you'd have a 25% drop in violent
crime, as defined by the FBI,

in Washington that summer.

Well, the chief of
police went on television

saying that, look, it's
going to take 2 feet of snow

to reduce crime by 25% in
Washington, DC, this summer,

but by the end, the
police department

became a collaborator
and author of this study,

because the results,
in fact, showed

a 25% drop in violent crime
in Washington, DC, 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,

are people affecting the world
or reality that they see?

You betcha they are.

Every single one of us affects
the reality that we see,

even if we try to hide
from that and play victim,

we all are doing it.

Just tell me where you are.

Good, but hurry,
will you please,

because these models are
giving me a headache.

10 minute.

[music playing]

The subway exhibit comes to
us from Japan and Mr. Masaru

Emoto.

Mr. Emoto became
terribly interested

In the molecular structure
of water and what effects it.

Now, water is the most
receptive of the four elements.

Mr. Emoto thought
perhaps it would respond

to non-physical events, so he
set up a series of studies,

applied mental stimuli,
and photographed it

with a dark-field microscope.

This first picture is a pitcher
of water from the Fujiwara Dam.

And this picture
is the same water

after receiving a blessing
from a Zen Buddhist monk.

Now, in this next
series of pictures,

Mr. Emoto printed
out words, taped them

to bottles of distilled water,
and let them out overnight.

This first photograph is a
picture of the pure distilled

water, just the
essence of itself.

These subsequent
photographs, as you can see,

are each different.

This is the chi of love.

And we move along
here to thank you.

And you can see where he taped
that to this bottle here.

And if you can read Japanese,
you already knew that.

Mr. Emoto speaks of
the phosphor intent

being the driving
force in all of this.

The science of how that
actually affects the molecules

is unknown, except to the
water molecules, of course.

And it's really fascinating
when you keep in mind

that 90% of our
bodies are water.

It makes you,
wonder doesn't it?

If thoughts can
do that to water,

imagine what our
thoughts can do to us.

[music playing]

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.

They write am intention
and then they erase it,

because they think that's silly.

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.

If you accept with every
rudiment of your being

that you will walk on
water, will it happen?

Yes, it will.

But you know, it's
like positive thinking.

It's a wonderful idea
of positive thinking,

but what it usually
means is that I

have a little smear of
positive thinking covering

the whole mass of
negative thinking.

So thinking positive is not
really thinking positive,

it's just disguising the
negative thinking that we have.

When you think
of things, then you

make the reality more
concrete than it is.

And that's where
it becomes stuck.

It becomes stuck in the
sameness of reality,

because if reality is concrete,
obviously, I'm insignificant.

I cannot really change it.

But if reality is
my possibility,

possibility of consciousness
itself, then, immediately

comes the question of
how can I change it, how

can I make it better, how
can I make it happier?

You see, how we had extending
the image of ourselves?

In the old thinking, I
cannot change anything,

because I don't have any
roll at all in reality.

Reality is already there.

It's material objects
moving in their own way

from deterministic laws,
and mathematics determines

what they will do in
a given situation.

I, the experience I
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 chose that experience.

And therefore, literally,
I create my own reality.

It may sound like a
tremendous bombastic claim

by some new agie without
any understanding

of physics whatsoever.

But really, quantum
physics is telling us that.

[music playing]

Hey, how was the shoot?

[? dumb. ?]

[music playing]

Your boss called.

He's worried about you.

[music playing]

[music stops]

Amanda, I want to thank
you for letting me stay here.

I know I'm a bit much
sometimes and that it's

been tough after Bob and all.

And you've just
been so wonderful.

I mean, I make a mess and,
well, I clean up afterwards,

but it's not really your style.

Sometimes I think
you make me sane.

Me?

The day I make someone
sane, they're in trouble.

Anyway, um, I made you
something as a thank you gift.

Open it.

I went through your pictures
and picked my favorite ones.

And took me forever, because
there are so many good ones.

This, that's for all
the wonderful photos

you will be taking.

Ahh.

I've had a strange day.

Thank you.

[music playing]

[indiscernible voices]

What's going on?

Where am I going?

What happens when I die?

Why is there anything at all?

What is reality?

What is reality?

It makes you
wonder, doesn't it?

If thoughts would
do that to water,

imagine what our
thoughts can do to us.

These are [inaudible].

Reality ultimately comes
down to our experience.

Have you ever though about
what thoughts are made of?

Is there a substance of thought?

I guess, It just depends
on what you think is real.

The world being possible
timelines of reality.

Until we choose.

Are All realities in
quantum physics existing

simultaneously?

[indiscernible voices]

There literally are different
worlds in which we live.

It's the microscopic
world that we see.

It's the world of
our cells, it's

the world of our atoms,
the world of our nuclei.

These are each totally
different worlds.

They have their
own language, they

have their own mathematics.

They're not just small.

Each is totally different.

But they're complimentary,
because I am atoms,

but I am also myselves.

I'm also my
macroscopic physiology.

It's all true.

They're just different
levels of truth.

The deepest level
of truth uncovered

by science and my philosophy is
the fundamental truth of unity.

At their deepest subnuclear
level of our family,

you and I are literally one.

[music playing]

I wake up in the
morning and I consciously

create my day the way
I want it to happen.

Now,. sometimes, because my
mind is examining all the things

that I need to get done, it
takes me a little bit to settle

down and get to the point,
of where I'm actually

intentionally creating my day.

But here's the thing,
when I create my day,

and out of nowhere,
little things

happen that are
so explainable, I

know that they are the process
or the result of my creation,

and the more I do that, the more
I build a neuronet in my brain

that I accept that
that's possible.

It gives me the power
and the incentive

to do it the next day.

[music playing]

In addition, we had a
supremely beautiful opportunity

to decipher the difference
between our intangibility

of our nobleness of character
and the day-to-day business

of how that
character is revealed

in a three-dimensional
world through our bodies.

[music playing]

I hate weddings!

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 some would
call a sexual fantasy.

It only takes one sexual fantasy
for a man to have a hard-on.

In other words, it only takes
one thought here for a man

to have an erection
in his member.

And yet, there was
nothing outside of him

that gave him that.

It was what was within
him that gave him that.

Oh, oh.

Hey, Amanda.

I didn't know you were there.

Guilty.

A wedding?

Come on.

Think.

This is a good assignment,
if you'd see it that way.

What do see?

I do.

[kissing sounds]

They did.

Oh, God, Amanda.

You live in your past.

And everything with you
is about what happened.

You hate churches, you hate
weddings, you hate guys.

Now, I want you
to go scoping out.

Don't need to.

I've got [inaudible].

I know, I took the
pictures, remember?

You've got too many memories
clouding your vision.

No, Amanda, Amanda,
Amanda, you know,

you're the best technical
photographer I have.

And I want to have
some great pictures.

You know what?

You need a good Polish wedding.

And watch out for those
good Catholic boys, huh?

You need the proofs?

Come on, get out of here.

Bye.

When I was younger, I had lots
of ideas about what God was.

And now, 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 Universe, and et cetera.

How did that get
taken out of religion?

It was not hard.

[music playing]

Most of the
problems with religion

and various
philosophical movements

down through the
centuries are produced

have been errors because
that's where they started.

That God is a distinct
separate being from us

to whom I must offer worship,
whom I must cultivate, humor,

please, and hope
to attend a reward

from at the very end of my life.

That is not what God is.

That it's a blasphemy.

God it is such a broad
thing, some parts of which,

most of the parts of which that
are associated with organized

religion is something
that I sort of recoil at,

and something that, I think,
has done a lot of harm

to the world, done the
hard to women, done

the harm to oppressed
peoples, done

harm to the World Trade Center.

And yet, at the
same point, we have

the epidemy of a great
science, the closest science

has ever come to explaining
Jesus' interpretation

that the mustard seed was larger
than the kingdom of heaven.

And the only science that
can fit into that analogy

is quantum physics.

[music playing]

Now, we have, we
have great technology

from antigravitry magnets and
magnetic fields of zero point

energy, we have all
that, and we still

have this ugly superstitious
backwater concept of God.

[music playing]

People fall into
line very readily

when they're threatened
by these cosmic sentences

of everlasting punishment.

But this is not how God is.

And once you start to question
the traditional images,

caricatures of God,
He will feel you're

an agnostic or an atheist, or a
subverter of the social order.

God must be greater than
the greatest of human weakness

and, indeed, the
greatness of human skill

The God must even
transcend, almost

remarkable to emulate nature
in its absolute splendor.

How can any man or woman sin
against such a greatness of

mind?

How can any one
little carbon unit

on Earth in the backwaters
of, indeed, the Milky

Way, the boondocks be
betray God Almighty?

That is impossible.

The height of
arrogance is the height

of control of who create
God in their own image.

[music playing]

I now present to you, Mr and
Mrs Richard Buck Phillipowski.

[MUSIC MENDELSSOHN, "WEDDING
MARCH"]

The brain, when it
fires its thoughts.

is likened onto the
landscape of a thunder cloud,

and the synaptic
cliff is the sky

between the storm and
the Earth [inaudible].

And you see this foreboding
dark cloud boiling in the sky.

And you see electrical
impulses moving through it

in vains of electric light, and
then you see it hit the ground.

The brain looks like
a thunder storm,

when it is presenting
a coherent thought.

So no one has ever
seen the thought.

What they do see
in neuro physics

is that they see a storm raging
around different quadrants

of the brain.

Those are areas that
are mapped in the body

and what the person
must be responding to,

a holographic image.

Rage, murder, hate,
compassion, love.

The brain does not
know the difference

between what it sees
in this environment

and what it remembers, because
the same specific neuron

[inaudible] are then firing.

The brain is made of tiny
nerve cells called neurons.

These neurons have
tiny branches that

reach out and connect to other
neurons to form a neuron bet.

Each place where they
connect is integrated

into a thought or a memory.

Now, The brain builds
up all its concepts

by the law of
associative memory.

For example, ideas,
thoughts, and feelings

are all constructed
and interconnected

in this neuron net, and all
have a possible relationship

with one another.

The concept in the feeling
of love, for instance,

is stored in this vast neuronet.

But we build the
concept of love from

many other different ideas.

Some people have love
connected to disappointment.

When they think about love,
they experience the memory

of pain, sorrow,
anger, and even rage,

Rage may be lumped
at hurt, which

may be lumped with a
specific person who

then is connected back to love.

We build 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 the
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 seat
when we control our emotions?

Where you're spy
into our emotions?

We know physiologically that
nerve cells that fire together

wire together.

If you practice something
over and over again,

those nerve cells have a
long-term relationship.

If you get angry
on a daily basis,

if you get frustrated
on a daily basis,

if you suffer on a daily
basis, if you get reason

for the victimization
in your life,

you're rewiring
and reintegrating

that neuro net on a daily
basis, And that neuro 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 together no
longer wire together.

They lose their
long-term relationship.

Because every time we
interrupt a 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 interrupting
and observing,

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 if it is automatic.

[cheering]

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.

All emotion is,
is holographically

imprinted chemicals.

The most sophisticated
pharmacy in the universe

is in here.

There's a part of the brain
called the hypothalamus.

The hypothalamus is like
a little mini factory.

And it is a place that
assembles certain chemicals that

matches certain emotions
that we experience.

Those particular chemicals
are called peptides.

They're small-chain
amino acid sequences.

The body's basically
a carbon unit

that makes about 20 different
amino acids all together

to formulate its
physical structure.

The body is a protein
producing machine.

In the hypothalamus, we take
small-chain proteins called

peptides, and we assemble them
into certain neural peptides

or neural hormones that match
the emotional states that we

experience on a daily basis.

So there's chemicals for anger.

And there's chemicals
for sadness.

And there's chemicals
for victimization.

There's chemicals for lust.

There's a chemical that
matches every emotional state

that we experience.

And the moment that we
experience that emotional state

in our body or in our
brain, that hypothalamus

will immediately
assemble the peptide.

It then releases it through the
pituitary into the bloodstream.

The moment it makes it
into the bloodstream,

it finds its way to
different centers

or different parts of the body.

Now, every single
cell in the body

has these receptors
on the outside.

And one cell can have
thousands of receptors studding

its surface, kind of opening
up to the outside world.

And when a peptide
docks on a cell,

it literally, like a
key going into a lock,

sits on the receptor
surface and attaches

to it and kind of moves
the receptor, and kind

of like a doorbell buzzing,
sends a signal into the cell.

[buzzer]

It's party time.

[MUSIC BOSTON "MORE THAN A
FEELING"]

[cheering]

What happens in adulthood
is that most of us

who have had our
glitches along the way

are operating in an
emotionally detached place.

Or we're operating as
if today were yesterday.

What is it?

Mixed.

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.

[music "what i like about you"]

Along the outside of the
cell are these billions

of receptor sites
that are really just

receivers of
incoming information.

A receptor that has
a peptide sitting in it

changes the cell in many ways.

It sets off a whole cascade
of biochemical events,

some of which wind
up with changes

in the actual nucleus of a cell.

Ha.

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 each cell has
a consciousness,

particularly if we
define consciousness

as the point of
view of an observer.

There is always the
perspective of the cell.

Two years later.

[interposing voices]

In fact, the cell
is the smallest unit

of consciousness in the body.

I'm hungry.

I'm hungry.

[music - "disco inferno"]

Oh, yeah.

We've commandeered an
entire serving platter.

[cheering]

[burping]

Well, my definition
of an addiction

is something really simple--
something that you can't stop.

Oh, make me supper, please.

We bring to
ourselves situations

that will fulfill the
biochemical craving

of the cells of our body
by creating situations

that meet our chemical needs.

It always happens to me.

Why?

[crying]

An addict will always
need a little bit more

in order to get a
rush or a high of what

they're looking for chemically.

Don't tell me to calm down.

You're always bossing me around.

So my definition really
means that if you can't control

your emotional state, you
must be addicted to it.

Oh, I knew this
was going to happen.

That's not what
we agreed upon.

You're not going to screw me.

Why don't you read
the contract, dear.

You won't do anything
about it, so I will.

No, no, 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'll stick my ass in
the cocktail sauce

if I damn well please.

I want you to get out
there and serve and make

sure everybody
knows what we have.

[interposing voices]

So how can anyone
really say they're

in love with a specific
person, for example?

They're only in love with the
anticipation of the emotions

they are addicted to.

Because the same person
could fall out of

favor the next week
by not complying.

My goodness, doesn't
that change the landscape

of our emotional outlook on
personal needs and identity?

[music - animotion, "obsession"]

Oh, yeah.

Oh, oh.

Amanda.

How can you not fricking see?

No, no, no, no, no.

You got the punchline wrong.

It's a-- it's a
photographer's joke.

Go on about your, uh, music.

[MUSIC BAD COMPANY, "CAN'T GET
ENOUGH OF YOUR LOVE"]

Are you OK?

Well, I-- I saw that
groom humping some girl.

Uh, when?

Just now.

I was with the groom.

Hey, I can read lips.

Uh, I'm sorry.

I was with the groom just now.

He loves Paulette.

Where?

Polacks- they all look
the same in a tux.

You're not Polish, are you?

Hi.

Thanks.

This-- this will help.

Oh, thank you.

No problem.

That was in my mouth.

Forget it.

So what's your name?

Elliot.

Hi.

Yeah.

So.

I'm Amanda.

Hey, Amanda.

I should have asked
you what your name--

Yeah.

You photograph
a lot of weddings?

I hate it.

I'm doing the thing
again with my hands.

I'm sorry.

We are emotions.

And emotions are us.

Again, I can't
separate emotions.

When you consider that every
aspect of your digestion,

every sphincter that
opens and closes,

every group of cells that come
in from nourishment and then

moves out to heal something
or repair something,

those are all
under the influence

of the molecules of emotion.

I mean, it's this total buzz.

So you ask if
emotions are bad.

Emotions are not bad.

They're life They color the
richness of our 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 drink?

--it's not just 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 if
we can be addicted to heroin,

then we can be addicted to any
neural peptide, any emotion.

To the groom.

To the groom.

What's up, guys?

What's up, man.

Hello.

What do you need?

Some foxes.

Who put out.

Yeah, baby.

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.

Oh, gosh.

She wouldn't fall for me.

Oh, mama.

Whoo.

What the hell are
you waiting for?

Come on you little pussies

Jeez, I can't
believe you guys.

What are you-- come on.

Come on.

Just get the hell
out of the way.

Hi there, honey.

Come on, baby.

You know you want it.

Oh, don't give me that look.

What about people who
are addicted to sex?

[music - "addicted to love"]

Whoo.

Hello there, big boy.

Mama.

Is there a rocket
in your pocket,

or are you just happy to see me?

[laughing]

Whoo.

(SINGING) The lights are
on, but you're not home.

Your mind is not your own.

Your heart sweats.

Your body shakes.

Another kiss is what it takes.

You can't sleep.

You can't eat.

There's no doubt you're in deep.

Your throat is tight.

You can't breathe.

Another kiss is all you need.

Whoa, you like to think that
you're immune to the stuff.

Oh, yeah.

It's closer to the truth to
say you can't get enough.

You know you're
gonna have to face it

you're addicted to love.

You see the signs,
but you can't read.

Running at a different speed.

Snap out of it.

Over here.

(SINGING)A one-track
mind, you can't be saved.

Oblivion is all you crave.

[interposing voices]

(SINGING) You like
to think that you're

immune to the stuff.

Oh, yeah.

It's closer to the truth--

[burping]

I want to hear
some polka music, OK?

These people want to
hear some polka music.

You can't have a Polish
wedding without polka music.

(SINGING) Might as well face
it, you're addicted to love.

Might as well face it you're--

[record scratching]

Whoa, would you
leave it alone.

Keep your [bleep] hands off--

How can you have
a Polish wedding

without any [bleep]
Polish music?

Keep your [bleep] hands off
my equipment. [bleep, bleep]

Like I said before, it ain't a
Polish wedding without a polka.

[music - "too fat polka"]

[music aeon spoke, "emmanuel"]

Our mind literally
creates our body.

So it all starts in the cell.

The cell is a protein
producing machine.

But it gets its
signal from the brain.

One of the things
about receptors

is they change in
their sensitivity.

If a given receptor for a
given drug or internal juice

is being bombarded for a long
time at a high intensity,

it will literally shrink up.

There will be less of them.

Or it will be hooked
up in such a way

that it is desensitized
or down-regulated.

So the same amount of
drug or internal juice

will elicit a much
smaller response.

[thunderclap]

Oh, no.

Help.

[thunderclap]

[screams]

[gunfire]

[explosions]

[screams]

If we're bombarding the
cell with the same attitude

and the same chemistry
over and over

again on a daily basis,
when that cell finally

decides to divide,
when it produces

a sister cell or
a daughter cell,

that next cell will
have more receptor sites

for those particular
emotional peptides

and less receptor sites for
vitamins, minerals, nutrients,

and fluid exchange,
or even the release

of waste products of toxins.

Now, all aging is a result of
improper protein production.

What happens when we age?

Our skin 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.

They become brittle and stiff.

What happens to our bones?

They become thin.

So all aging is a result of
improper protein 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?

OK, guys.

It's time for a
course correction

on our trajectory along
the path of our adventure.

And that course correction is
the movement to a new paradigm.

It's just an
expansion of the old.

Just as the universe is
larger than we thought

it was in our modeling.

And it's always larger
than we think it is.

I hate you.

[sigh] I hate you.

[scream] You idiot.

You suck.

Look at you.

You're fat.

You're ugly.

You are worth nothing.

You're getting old.

I hate you.

It makes you
wonder, doesn't it?

If thoughts can
do that to water,

imagine what our
thoughts can do to us.

No one has ever came
along and ever given you

sufficient intelligent knowledge
about your beautiful self, how

you work from the inside out.

Why do you have addictions?

Because you have nothing better.

You have dreamt of nothing
better because no one has ever

taught you how to dream better.

[laughing]

Do I think that you're bad?

I don't think you're bad.

Do I think you're good I don't
think you're good, either.

I think you're God.

In general, the
field of psychiatry

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-- uh,
borrow some toothpaste?

Thanks.

When I talk about
"we" disappearing,

I don't mean that we
physically disappear.

What I mean is that we move out
of the area of the brain that

has to do with our personality.

It 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,

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 their
environment, through the media,

through television, through
people living and creating

ideals that everybody
struggles to become,

that no one can actually become
in terms of physical appearance

and definitions of
beauty and valor,

that are all illusions, that
most people surrender and live

their life in mediocracy.

And they may live that
life, and the soul

may never really-- their
desire may never really

rise to the surface so they
may want to be something else.

But if it does rise
to the surface,

and they ask themselves if
there is something more,

or why am I here, what
is the purpose of life,

where am I going, what
happens when I die?

They start to ask
those questions.

They start 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
of how they viewed their life

in the world start
to fall apart.

[wind blowing]

We're in completely new
territory in our brain.

And because we're in
completely new territory,

we're rewiring the
brain, literally

reconnecting to a new concept.

Then ultimately, it changes
us from the inside out.

If I change my mind,
will I change my choices?

If I change my choices,
will my life change?

Why can't I change?

What am I addicted to?

What will I lose that I'm
chemically attached to?

And what person, place,
thing, time, or event

that I'm chemically attached
to that I don't want

to lose because I may
have to experience

the chemical
withdrawal from that?

Hence, the human drama.

(ON ANSWERING MACHINE)
Amanda, it's Bob.

And I'm just calling to say I
hope that you can come tonight.

I really want to see you.

I-- I really want
to talk to you.

I know we can work things out.

What's the only planet
in the Milky Way that

has habitation that is steeped
in enormous subjugation

of religion?

You know why that is?

It's because people have
set up right and wrong.

If I do this, I'm going
to get punished by God.

If I do the other thing,
I'm going 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
of sin and licentiousness

and depravity?

No.

It simply means that you need
to improve your expression

and understanding of what
you'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 good or bad.

There's no god
waiting to punish you

because you did
one or the other.

There is no god
condemning people.

Everyone is gods.

At the same time,
God 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 seem to do it.

It's kind of like-- asking a
human being to explain what God

is similar to asking
a fish to explain

the water in which
the fish swims.

God is a superposition of
all the spirit from all things.

So you are a
god in the making.

And you have to walk this path.

But some day you have
to love the abstract

as much as you love the
condition of addiction.

The only way that I will
ever be great to myself

is not what I do to my body,
but what I do to my mind.

So if we're consciously
designing our destiny,

and if we're consciously,
from the spiritual standpoint,

throwing in with the idea
that our thoughts can

affect our reality, affect
our life, because reality

equals life, then I have
this little 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, if, in 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

that you paid attention
to any one of these 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.

The brain is capable of
millions of different things

that people just really should
learn how incredible they

actually are and how incredible
their minds actually are.

And the knowledge that 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,

and it can make us something
better than what we actually

are, and can actually help
us to transcend ourselves.

That there may be some way
that it can actually take us

to a higher level
of our existence,

where we can actually
understand the world in a deeper

way, where we can understand
our relationship to things

and people 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 of our brain.

But it's a part that we
all can have access to.

And it's something
that we can all do.

We have to
formulate what we want

and be so concentrated on and so
focused on it and have so much

of our awareness on it, that
we lose track of ourselves.

We lose track of time.

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.

Your consciousness
influences others around you.

It influences
material properties.

It influences your future.

You are co-creating your future.

Show me a sign today
that you paid attention

to any one of these
things that I've 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.

[interposing voices]

Have you ever seen
yourself through the eyes

of someone else that
you have become?

What an initiation.

Have you ever
stopped for a moment

and looked at yourself
through the eyes

of the ultimate observer?

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

of the universe, that we
are all interconnected

and that we are
connected to the universe

at its fundamental
level, I think

is as good an explanation for
spirituality as there this.

It is my belief
that our purpose here

is to develop our
gifts of intentionality

and learn how to be
effective creators.

We are here to be creators.

We are here to infiltrate
space with ideas and mansions

of thought.

We are here to make
something of this life.

To acknowledge
the quantum self,

to acknowledge the place
where you really have choice,

to acknowledge mind, when
that shift of perspective

takes place, we say that
somebody has been enlightened.

Quantum mechanics allows
for this intangible phenomenon

of freedom to be woven
into human nature.

Quantum physics, very
succinctly speaking,

is a physics of possibilities.

It opens fundamentally the
question of whose possibilities

and who chooses from
theses possibilities

to give us the actual
event of experience.

The only answer that
is satisfactory,

both logically and
meaningfully, is the answer

that consciousness is
the ground of all being.

We must pursue knowledge
without any interference

of our addictions.

And if we can do that, we will
manifest knowledge in reality.

And our bodies will
experience it in the ways,

in new chemistry, in new
holograms, new elsewheres

of thought beyond
our wildest dreams.

All of us one day will
reach the level of the avatars

that we have read
about in history,

the Buddhas and the Jesus.

Welcome to the
kingdom of heaven,

without judgment, without
hate, without testing,

without anything.

That we simply are has
allowed this reality

we call real, from the
power of intangibility,

to pull out of
inertness, action, chaos,

and hold it into its from.

And we call it matter.

[bell ringing]

[birds calling]

How can we
measure the effects?

We get to live our
life and see then

if, somewhere in our
lives, something's changed.

And then if it has changed,
we become the scientists

to our life.

Which is the whole
reason why we're here.

[bell ring]

[horn blowing]

Don't just 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?

[music playing]

Ponder that for a while.

[music playing]

My name is David Albert.

I got a Ph.D. In
theoretical physics.

I studied biochemistry
at Rutgers University,

and then went to
chiropractic college

at Life University
in Atlanta, Georgia.

My postgraduate training is
in anatomy and physiology,

neurochemistry,
physiology, and genetics.

I studied quantum physics.

I sometimes teach it.

I have written a book on
quantum physics and many books

explicating the meaning
of quantum physics.

After my Ph.D.
from Harvard, I went

to Cern, a European laboratory
for particle research,

and then joined
faculty at Stanford.

And my work there has been the
development of unified quantum

field theories.

I have about 100
publications in this area.

But perhaps I'm best
known for the discovery

of supersymmetric flipped 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 of wonder
where they go and why

they're there in
the first place.

And that's one of the reasons
that attracted me to anesthesia

and the study of consciousness.

My name is Miceal Ledwith.

And for most of my life, I
was a professor of theology.

I'm Dr. Daniel Monti.

I'm a physician with
specialty training

in psychiatry and
human behavior.

I'm on the full-time faculty at
the Jefferson Medical college.

I actually got very interested
in studying this whole topic

of the brain and
spirituality because it

had to do with a
lot of the questions

that I was asking ever since
I was a child, about reality

and how we understood
truth and what was real.

And as I grew up, and
as I realized that,

while spirituality
was in some senses

a very important part of
trying to find those answers,

science also was a
very crucial part.

And I was ultimately
looking for some way

of bringing those
two forces together.

Well, my name 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've
got them thinking.

That's always a trick, isn't it?

I should make
it clear that I'm

a graduate student in physics.

I'm not a full-fledged
theoretical physicist yet.

But if fortune smiles on me and
I continue to work like a dog

on my problem sets
and exams and whatnot,

eventually what I
hope to do with this

is to apply fundamental
quantum theory

to quantum information
processing.

So I decided, well, if I gave
up being department chairman,

and if I gave up all my
professional committees,

and I gave up all my
government committees,

I would have a block of time
that I could put to work.

Of course, I give up
all my power positions.

But you have to
sacrifice something.

I had to keep my day job because
my family needed to be fed.

I presume that
you're asking me

how a scientist can sound
this wacko because I

must be sounding wacko.

[laughing] It's really
an interesting question.

If you study science long
enough and seriously enough

and dig deeply enough,
if you don't come out

feeling wacko about it, you
haven't understood a thing.

[glass breaking]

[music playing]