Our perception of life is closely connected to our worldview.
And then you say: "Man, that's deep".
"My perception of life is connected to my worldview..."
"Yeah, that seems about right"
However, can you describe your worldview?
Can you explain what your worldview is based on?
What is your worldview?
If really our worldview is closely connected to our perception of life,
to our experience of life...
Well, then, it would be interesting to know what our worldview is.
Because if we are not happy with our perception of life,
if we wish to improve our perception of life, our life experience
worldview would be a really good place to look.
If we can change our worldview, we can change our perception of life.
I will spare you the excruciating pain of trying to define your worldview
because a worldview is, and let me quote a dictionary here:
"Basic assumptions or concepts we have of the world".
Basic ASSUMPTIONS.
We ASSUME things to be in a certain way
and funny thing about assumption is that you never, ever question it.
You don't ever question your assumptions. You just assume they're true.
Our wordwiew today, collectively
is based on science but it wasn't always like that.
For thousands of years our worldview
was connected to some kind of divinity: God or gods.
So, who created the Universe,
who created me, why am I here, what's my mission, what's my purpose,
how long this all is going to last, how it's going to end
and who's going to clean up afterwards?
The answer was always one and the same: it was God, or gods.
In some traditions there are thousands of gods and sometimes even
with different departments like god of war and god of wisdom and god of rain
and so on. So, whatever... Maybe it was one almighty all-powerful God, creator of
the Universe, who created me in his own image and maybe it was
thousands of them... doesn't matter.
Our existence, and this world, and the Universe in general was some
kind of God's will.
Things started to change in the Middle Ages and the
pivotal point in that transition from "God worldview" to "scientific worldview"
that we share today was in the year 1687.
when guy called Sir Isaac Newton
wrote a pivotal book.
It was written in Latin and it's called "Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica"
or "Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy".
In this book Sir Isaac Newton gave us three basic laws of mechanics, of classical
physics as we could call it today, a "Newtonian physics".
And for the first time ever, someone was talking about speed, mass, force, counter-force and
acceleration and gravity! We finally understood the nature of
gravity. What gravity is and why the Moon can circle around Earth never crashing down?
How this Universe works? We were finally able to calculate the trajectories of
planets, and comets, and asteroids, and meteors and so on, and it was
groundbreaking! It was really groundbreaking. Our classical physics
today still relies on his principles; principles that he laid out for us.
But the philosophical implications of that work were even more important than
just mathematical or physical. Because what Isaac Newton proposed was
that there is a certain philosophy in nature, "Natural Philosophy", that is based
on principles of mathematical nature.
There are mathematical principles,
principles that can be calculated and predicted with precision that govern the
nature and natural philosophy.
For the first time ever our Universe,
world around us, became predictable, because we can calculate it.
And it is OBJECTIVE.
For example, if I drop this pen - it's going to fall down. Each and every time.
It's going to fall down and it is going to take this pen maybe two seconds
to reach the floor. It doesn't matter who is doing the experiment.
When are you doing the experiment? Are you watching that experiment or not?
Are you doing this today or tomorrow?
It is going to be the same for everybody, each time you do that experiment.
So, for the first time ever, the Universe
was not some kind of whim of some higher being, or higher force,
or God, or gods, or spirits, but it is predictable.
And since it is much, much, much more useful to
calculate or predict that this weekend is going to rain, for example,
then just to pray to God of rain to not to jump on the cloud hitting with his
hammer clouds and making it rain for all of us - this worldview slowly,
bit by bit started to become more important.
Or at least, it penetrated our collective consciousness.
So, maybe God really created the Universe and maybe really God
created me in his own image, and maybe all that I can see is some kind
of God's plan - we can put it that way. However, once God created all of that
maybe he just left. Because he is not going to intervene in my experiment of
dropping a pen. Never, ever, ever. My experiment of measuring how long
does it take for pen to reach the floor if I drop it - it's going to be the same every
time and it doesn't depend on some God's will.
So, maybe God created all that but
he left us with rules with certain principles of mathematical nature,
that are predictable, and that can be calculated.
And that was a huge, huge step
in our collective consciousness. Because, from this year forward, for the
next 200 and 250 years, it was great time for science.
It was really good to be a scientist during the 17th, 18th and
19th century. Because we learned a lot about optics, thanks to Sir Isaac Newton again,
chemistry, genetics, thermodynamics,
electricity, electromagnetism... Based on this physics we started building
machines - and that's a huge step! Huge step! Because, for the first time
ever it wasn't always human muscles and force, or animals - for example in
agriculture - needed for a lot of things.
We finally had steam engine, we were
building trains, ships - modern ships based on steam engine.
They did not rely on... you know: "row, row, row your boat".
So - it was great!
And, of course, productivity in general started to climb.
We were able to produce more! More food, more clothes,
more goods, because we finally understood how the natural philosophy works.
We found out about principles that govern
natural philosophy, or nature, or world where we live in.
And they are objective.
They are the same for everyone, and they are the same for everyone each time
you do the experiment, or you build a machine in a certain way.
It was a huge, huge achievement.
So much so, that in the year 1905
I'm sorry, it's 1903. In 1903, one of the leading physicists
in the World, called Albert Abraham Mickelson, said this:
"The more important fundamental laws and facts of"
"physical science have all been discovered, and these are now so firmly"
"established that the possibility of their even being supplanted in"
"consequence of new discoveries is exceedingly remote."
"Our future discoveries must be looked for in the sixth place of decimals."
What Mr. Michelson is saying is: "We know it all! We know it all!"
"We know it all! And we know it now!"
So, all the most important fundamental laws of the nature we already know.
And it is highly improbable... impossible... that we are ever going to
find different laws. Because this is it.
And yeah, maybe we can measure it
a little bit better, but you know... Who cares, really?
So, why are we talking about this?
Because our collective, and individual worldview today is based on this science.
It is science founded in 1687 and by the year 1903 we knew all of it.
It views or depicts Universe as a giant machine.
There is only one reality - "objective reality".
Only one version of reality that is valid for everyone.
And if I am saying that this wall is yellow,
and all of you are saying that it is white - then I'm wrong.
Because, objectively - it is white.
There is only one version of reality that works for everyone.
Nature, or the Universe, is a mechanism.
It is governed by mathematical principles
that are deterministic, that are predictable, and that can be
calculated in advance!
Every action has equal and opposite reaction, meaning
there is a certain linearity of events.
My action creates some consequence,
and that consequence is a source of another action, that creates
another consequence... There is causality of events.
Events are going in a linear fashion.
And we are just a billiard balls in a huge Universe that's just like a
huge billiard table. We are bumping into each other.
And there is a certain scarcity of resources.
We are fighting for resources, fighting each other.
And life happens TO us!
Because, best-case scenario, and this is really the best case scenario:
that mechanism that we are calling "The Universe" is not that much
interested in us. Not much.
The best case scenario: it is neutral. It doesn't care about us!
Worst case scenario: the Universe is somehow against us!
Because it really doesn't care what we need,
it really doesn't care what we want, we need to FIGHT our way through it
by moving other billiard balls that are equally separate from the whole picture,
sitting in a huge billiard table.
So, in a way we are isolated. We are victims of that
mechanical thing that we call Universe, and we are unable to control our destiny.
And that's a bit scary, you know?
It creates a certain stress because... fear, stress...
because it triggers our fight-or-flight mode.
When you are under stress,
when you are in a fearful scenario, when you are in a reality that you
perceive as unfriendly for you; you always react with fight-or-flight.
In this case we don't have ability to flight, or to run away. How can you run
away from the Universe? So, we are fighting it!
And we are fighting each other,
are fighting the Universe, and we are fighting the Nature, and we are cruel to
animals - we are using them, we are fighting the animals, too, we are even
fighting the extraterrestrials!
I mean, just take a look at this interesting thing.
Of course, there are hundreds, or thousands of science fiction movies and
in most of them - not all, but most of them - these extraterrestrials
are coming from different planet, or from different galaxy... why?
TO FIGHT US! To conquer us!
To kill us all! I mean... really?
Why? Is that something that sounds plausible to you?
Someone who comes from another galaxy to kill us because... Why?
Because he wants... they want our oil?
They want our water? Like there is no water in the Universe?
Like... oh, we are so special! And we are threat to them!
Equally, when we go into our spaceships and we meet all those
Vulcans, and Romulans, and Klingons... We usually fight them, one way or the other.
To somehow... what? Survive? Really? Is that all there is?
Do we really need to kill other intelligent species? Just because they are there?
Do we really have a basis for assumption that once we meet another intelligent
species - they will try to kill us? Why?
However, we are living in constant fear
because... It is a constant fear reinforcing itself.
We need to fight the Universe. We need to fight nature.
We need to fight each other, over resources that are scarce.
We are even fighting the imaginary enemies
like extraterrestrials, and of course - that's why we have all those terrorism
and we are always scared because of this, and because of that...
I mean just just take a look at the news.
Medicine!
Now, that's an interesting topic, because we are looking
outside and we are perceiving the world as unfriendly, and we are perceiving it
as mechanical... mechanism, "machine", we are looking at our body in the same way.
We are perceiving, we are looking our bodies and our health
in terms of mechanics, and sometimes that's quite alright.
If you injure yourself, if you cut yourself,
if you really damage your biochemical machine that we call "the body"
go to the nearest hospital, because they know how to fix you up.
And they will do it perfectly, in a record time.
You really shouldn't be worried because we are great at that.
However, when we are talking about consciousness, for example,
that's a different picture.
We believe, we ASSUME that consciousness is byproduct of our brain complexity.
And that's just an assumption. There is no one shred of evidence for it.
But you will hear, for example, in hospitals:
"The patient has regained consciousness".
Somehow your brain finally started working properly, creating consciousness.
We assume that consciousness is byproduct of our brain complexity.
Or, at least, our mind creates consciousness.
This gray field inside; "the brain".
It creates consciousness.
Also we have very, very hard time explaining other
phenomena in medicine - like "placebo effect", for example.
We treat "placebo effect" just like any other statistical anomaly.
For example, someone has some kind of sickness
and you tell him that you will give him medicine, but you are
just giving him water, with some sugar and electrolytes. Nothing.
Nothing that would improve his health.
However, a lot of patients receiving placebo
for complicated diseases - get better! They get better.
So, what we are saying on that fact: "Yeah, it's just... you know - luck".
So, we don't understand a placebo effect. Actually, we are fighting placebo effect
because placebo cannot be bottled and sold in pharmacies.
So we have no use for that.
We are treating our body,
we are looking at our body as a machine.
As a biochemical machine - but nevertheless - machine.
And to finish this overview: we are looking at the Universe
as a deterministic machine.
However, we believe that we are here by accident.
So, nothing in the Universe is accident
there is cause and effect, causality, linearity of a events - but we are!
Because we are just product of millions and millions, even billions of years
of DNA mixing, and exchanging, and making errors
that somehow prove to be beneficial.
We are here - by Darwin's theory - by accident.
Long, long, long, long, long line of accidents.
And good accident gets promoted, bad accident dies.
However, we are here by accident, in the Universe that's fully deterministic
and doesn't make anything by accident!
Exclusively by force, and counter-force and so on...
Now, that's really, really confusing.
So, we are forced to play this game of life
and once we are born - we don't get a rulebook with our life.
However, society will gladly give a rulebook to you.
So, you should go to kindergarten
then you should go to school at the age of six or seven, then you should go to
the high school, then you should go to university, get a job, marry,
have children, family... So, you know, life is kind of programmed and society gives you
rulebook what to do, when to do it, how to do it, and it even gives you little tests
to see if you are advancing properly.
And we live by the clock!
It is another mechanical or electronical device that's governing our life.
Five hundred years ago, when we had God-worldview, we woke up with Sun,
we went to bed at night, you eat when you're hungry,
you drink when you're thirsty.
But today, you eat when you have a lunch break.
And that maybe at noon, that's maybe at 2:00 p.m. or whatever.
However, you don't eat when you're hungry.
You eat when they allow you, when society allows you to eat,
when it's your lunch break.
And you don't get to stay in bed for half an hour more because
you would like to sleep some more. No, no, no, no, no.
Your job starts at 8:00 a.m. or 9:00 a.m. sharp!
And so you get up, you eat because you have to eat because it's
time for eating your breakfast - you can't eat your breakfast two hours later.
So you go out, you eat your breakfast, you sit in your car,
and you drive on the road.
You don't even have the freedom to go wherever you wish.
You need to follow the road. And then you get to your job
and then you have a lunch break, and you don't get to go home before 5:00 p.m.
So, we are living a life that's also mechanical,
in the Universe that's mechanical,
your body is mechanical... Everything is mechanical!
Everything is deterministic, there is a linearity of events
everything is objective, there is only one version of reality.
That is our collective worldview. And, of course, our individual worldview,
for the most part.
And it would be great if it were all there is.
Is that really all there is it?
It turns out - it's not!
And the man who showed us that it is NOT all there is
and things that just a little bit more complicated, or different
than this mathematical, mechanical picture - was anonymous clerk from the
Swiss Patent Office called Albert Einstein.
In the year 1905... roughly...
Albert Einstein stepped forward and broke all these principles.
In fact, he showed us that this is just one case, one special case.
However, the Universe is much more interesting
then just this version of reality.
In 1905 Albert Einstein brought us relativity.
We are not going to go deep into relativity.
It's a big subject. We're just going to make a few remarks.
There is general relativity, there is special relativity...
We will not going too much into details.
However, what Albert Einstein showed us is that things we assumed
to be 100% objective - for example time and distance - are not so objective at all.
Let me give you an example.
Let's say that here in a parking lot I have a
spaceship that's able to go about 99% of the speed of light.
So speed of light is 300,000 kilometers per second.
It's quite fast but it's measurable.
It's not incredibly fast: for example it takes about 8 and a half minutes
for light to to come from the Sun to the Earth.
So it is measurable.
If you have a spaceship
that is moving 99% of the speed of light - you get really interesting effects.
For example: I go into this spaceship and I tell you: "just wait for me here"
"for a few minutes, I'll make one round trip around Venus and I'll be back"
"in exactly one minute". We can synchronize our watches,
start our stopwatches, time now... Click...
I go into my spaceship and I accelerate to 99% of the speed of light
I make my turn, I'm looking at my watch,
counting 59 seconds, 58 seconds, 57, 56... then 5, 4, 3, 2, 1...
After exactly one minute I park here and I come back into this room and you
say: "Well, that was seven minutes!"
"No, it was one minute. Look, I have a watch!"
"My watch is saying that this round trip was one minute long."
You say: "No no, it was seven minutes!"
"We also have watches so you can't cheat, it was seven minutes!"
And we are both right. Both assumptions, both measurements are precisely true.
Because, when you are moving at the 99% of the speed of light - time for you
"objectively" passes seven times slower. Seven times slower!
So, what was one minute for me, it was seven minutes for you.
Objectively!
You have your watches, I have my watch, nobody cheated.
But when you are approaching the speed of light
time... it's called "time dilation"... and now you can say that
time stretches, or time shrinks,
depends from which side you are measuring. However, one minute for me
moving at the 99% of the speed of light is seven minutes for you.
Objectively.
And the same effect goes with the distance. So, if for example my spaceship
is seven meters long, once I reach 99% of the speed of light
for you watching me through the telescope, my spaceship is only one meter long.
For me, sitting inside the spaceship, it is seven meters, of course.
Nothing changed for me. For me, everything is the same.
My watch is going second-by-second...
It's not that my second is seven times longer.
So, one... (long pause)... two...
It is one... two... three... four...
For you - it's seven times longer - time. And distance - is seven times shorter.
And as you approach the speed of light more and more,
like 99.999% - that effect gets even more measurable, and more absurd.
For example, if you are moving at 99.9999% of the speed of light - that effect is
roughly 707 times. What is one minute for me
is 707 minutes for you.
I'll leave you here with a complete table.
As you can see, that effect is not that strong, not that noticeable
when speeds are closer to these speeds that we have here.
Abour 1000 kilometers/hour - it's a speed of a commercial jet flying from
Europe to the United States. At that speed, or at speed at which we are
walking and we're driving our cars - it is barely, barely, barely measurable.
You really need to have very, very, very precise equipment to measure that effect.
However, when you're approaching speed of light - it really gets interesting.;
The second thing that Albert Einstein gave us was his famous equation:
E = m * c2
Maybe you heard about that formula. It's beautiful, it's elegant, fits on a T-shirt
makes you look really smart. However, do you know what that really means?
E is energy, m is mass, and c is the speed of light.
Now, this "c" is a constant.
It is 300,000 kilometers per second, so that part of formula, "c squared"...
This number squared... tells us how MUCH energy you get
from one kilo of mass.
So, energy equals mass times c squared... this "c" is a constant so we can...
just for a few minutes - ignore it...
and what we are left with is:
E equals m, or: "Mass is energy".
Mass IS energy!
Everything you see...
everything that you can touch - is energy!
And the Universe is one giant energy field.
There is nothing in the Universe except energy.
All you see is energy.
And please, don't believe me.
This is what one of the greatest scientists
in the history... Max Planck was one of the greatest physicists
of all times. And this is what he said somewhere around 1944.
"As a man who has devoted his whole life"
"to the most clear-headed science, to the study of matter, I can tell you"
"as a result of my research about the atoms this much:"
"THERE IS NO MATTER AS SUCH!"
"All mater originates and exists only by virtue of force which"
"brings the particles of an atom to vibration and hold this most minute"
"solar system of the atom together."
"We must assume behind this force the existence"
"of a conscience and intelligent Spirit."
This Spirit is the matrix of all matter.
So, Max Planck, one of the greatest physicists of all time...
First gives us an introduction.
Saying that he "devoted his whole life to the most clear-headed"
"science - to the study of matter".
He knows that what he is about to tell us is so impossible,
so improbable, so beyond our regular, normal, everyday comprehension
of life and the Universe in general... So, he needs to emphasize.
He feels the need to emphasize that he devoted his life to
"the most clear-headed science of all",
"study of matter". And then he goes and says: "there is no matter as such".
All matter is energy condensed, slowed, in a slow vibration
and that slow vibration gives that matter certain solidity.
You can touch the walls, and each other,
and this whiteboard, and pen, and whatever...
Because that energy is condensed to a slow vibration.
Or in his words: "there is a force which brings the particles"
"of an atom to vibration and hold this most minute solar system"
"of the atom together".
And now we are coming to the second point - that's even more important.
He says that there is a force that holds the atom together
and we must assume that behind this force
there is "a conscious and intelligent Spirit".
There is "a conscience and intelligent Spirit".
You can call it "soul", you can call it consciousness... ("conscious Spirit")...
However, consciousness is not byproduct of our
brain complexity. Consciousness is inherent to all matter.
Even small, tiny atom...
That force that holds it together - is conscience and intelligent.
Each and every atom has certain consciousness included.
Or there wouldn't be matter.
Matter is byproduct of consciousness, and that is
answer to one of the greatest questions that our modern science has.
And it's called: "Where does life, or where does consciousness come from?"
Let's start with life.
So, for example, let's take one single-celled bacteria, one of the
simplest life forms that you can possibly imagine: single-celled bacteria.
That bacteria is made... it contains some water molecules, some carbon,
nitrogen, oxygen, and so on...
Is the water molecule conscious?
No.
Is it alive? Well... no.
Okay. How about carbon? Is carbon alive?
Is it conscious? I mean... you know what carbon is: carbon is both coal and diamond.
Is a diamond conscious? No, it is not.
How about molecule of nitrogen? How about hydrogen?
How about oxygen? Are these molecules alive? Are they conscious?
Well, I believe you will say: "no".
However, you put them together and by some miracle it
certainly becomes alive. I mean, bacteria.
Maybe it doesn't have consciousness
as complex and rich as our consciousness is - however, bacteria eats,
searches for food... you know... it has a tendency to move away from, for example,
antibiotic... from poisons (bacteria considers antibiotic a poison, of course),
So, it has a tendency to move away from antibiotic, and it has a tendency to move
forward or towards the food. So it has some, tiny intelligence or consciousness
and it definitely is alive, because it reproduces, for example.
So, when does non-conscious, non-living ingredients become conscience and alive?
And, okay, now you can say that bacteria is not conscious,
and that's another interesting point.
We know for certain that it is alive.
Is it conscious?
Let's go from another direction: we are conscious, right?
Human race is conscious. Monkeys are also conscious, right?
Dolphins are also conscious. How about dogs and cats?
Maybe they are not self-conscious,
maybe your cat is not aware of being aware. However, it is aware.
So, there is cat consciousness. Your cat is conscious. Your dog is conscious.
Horse? You see, we are moving backwards through the evolutionary scale.
How about an alligator? Is an alligator conscious?
It is far, far, far removed from our evolutionary scale so
it is much, much, much simpler organism. However - it IS conscious.
Right?
Okay, let's find the point where organisms become less conscious.
So, alligator? How about insects? Are insects conscious?
Yes, they are.
How about jellyfish?
You see, we ASSUMED that our consciousness comes from
our brain complexity. And that means our central nervous system.
Our central nervous system is made from billions and billions of cells - neurons,
they're called neurons. So, we have billions of neurons
somehow reprogramming themselves and finding better pathways...
We don't really understand how that works,
but nevertheless - we have billions of neurons.
And monkeys have a bit less, and alligators also has a central nervous
system, but it is even much more simple.
However - jellyfish does not have a single neuron.
It does not have a central nervous system.
How do you feel about taking jellyfish and throwing it in the fire?
Is it easier to throw a jellyfish in a fire
then to plug out your computer? Let's say that your printer or
your computer started printing some junk pages and you don't want that.
What do you do? You just switch off the printer. You kill the printer.
I mean, you turned off its consciousness... If there is such thing, of course.
Printer is not conscious. It is just a machine.
Jellyfish doesn't have a central nervous system...
Is it just a machine? Is it really just a machine?
You feel like there is something alive.
You don't feel good killing jellyfish.
You don't feel anything killing printer, or computer, or dishwasher.
You can hit it with a hammer and sure - it's a device that's useful
so you're not going to do that... But, if you really need to - you don't have
any kind of complaint from YOUR consciousness.
Killing jellyfish - you do. You feel that something is inside.
So, consciousness DOES NOT come from the central nervous system.
Max Planck told us where consciousness comes from.
Consciousness is what makes matter possible.
Behind any atom, there is a conscious and intelligent Spirit.
Without that conscious and intelligent Spirit - there wouldn't be matter at all.
So, we are sitting in a huge field of energy.
And, you see, that's not like being
a billiard ball on a billiard table, because energy doesn't have
that strict boundaries - like matter.
For example, this pen has strict boundaries.
I can say: "Yeah, okay, here I have a pen, here I don't".
There is no pen here. There is pen here, there is no pen here.
When you have energy, for example your Wi-Fi router...
It emits energy... information, but - energy.
Sure, signal is better when you come closer
and it's a bit weaker when you move three feet from it.
However, you can feel... that energy that Wi-Fi router emits
doesn't exactly has a point with a strict border.
Here you have a router signal, and here you don't.
Because, here is a border between having a signal and not having a signal.
If we are energy, if all matter is energy, and we are energy field, too,
we don't exactly have borders.
Maybe 200 meters from me energy that my body is emitting gets
very, very, very, very, very, very weak - so you can say like there isn't.
But we are all immersed in a giant soup of energy.
And the only reason why we feel solid
and why this room feels solid, is because there is some conscious and intelligent
Spirit sitting behind it that creates certain solidity.
And if you have trouble wrapping your mind around this,
don't worry. Because Max Planck himself
said something that's very funny.
And he said: "Science advances one funeral at a time."
So, Max Planck understood there is no way you can teach an old dog new tricks.
There is no way that you can make old scientists, old physicists accept
this breakthrough achievements.
That there is no matter as such, and behind each and every atom
there is a conscious and intelligent Spirit.
There is consciousness behind everything.
Actually, there is nothing but consciousness in the Universe.
And so he said that science advances one funeral at a time,
because new guys, new people get acquainted with new theories and they
accept it, and you just cannot explain to the physicist that has a dissertation
based on these physics, and has a tenure in a prestigious university, and he is
teaching for 20, or 30, or 50 years this kind of physics...
Now you will somehow make him see the light: "Oh, no, I was wrong all along..."
"Oh, yeah, yeah, you're right, I should change everything about it".
No, you can't.
So, science advances one funeral at the time.
And this is what the Universe really looks like.
This is the physics that Universe is really based on.
Sure, there is what we can call "a mechanical world",
that's governed by these principles. And it's great, because this physics
allows us to have machines, and we are able to build huge buildings,
skyscrapers for more than 500 meters high,
that are not going to break down with the first earthquake.
Because we know how to calculate the amount of steel and glass and cement
and concrete... in a way that it will be stable.
This is great if we are talking about
mechanical universe but if we are talking about the nature of reality,
what the Universe is made from - it's made of energy and nothing but energy.
This point of view leads us to a completely new direction.
And that direction is also nothing new.
Let me just quote one of the greatest
physicists and inventors that world ever had.
His name was Nikola Tesla... and yes,
that's how his name is properly pronounced. Or, at least,
that's how HE would pronounce his name. And you can trust me on that
because he was our countrymen. He was born maybe 200 kilometers
kilometers from this place we are sitting in here.
And he says: "The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena"
"it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous"
centuries of its existence".
We should study non-physical phenomena.
So, this is the study of physical phenomena.
And this worldview is based on a matter.
This worldview is based on energy.
It is two completely different pictures.
And Nikola Tesla says
that we should focus on this side of our whiteboard.
We should explore non-physical phenomena.
And that changes picture completely.
I will give you just one small example, and we are going to discuss it
in much more detail later, but just as a hint.
Just to see where this is all going.
So there is an age-old question: "Do we have a Soul?"
And where is it, but... Do we have a Soul?
Actually...
You ARE a Soul.
What you HAVE is a body.
Your body is contained inside your Soul.
There is an intelligent, conscious Spirit
that creates your body.
It's not that your body, as a machine, mechanical or biochemical,
made out of matter, creates consciousness.
It's consciousness that creates your body.
You don't HAVE a Soul.
You ARE a Soul, and you have a body.
These are two completely different worldviews.
However, we all collectively, and most of us individually,
focus on matter, instead on energy.
So, let's sum it up.
Reality, in the old paradigm, reality is objective.
There is only one reality, it is the same for everybody...
In this new paradigm reality is SUBJECTIVE.
Because, as Einstein showed us, your experience of a second,
of time, of space, of meter, of distance - greatly depends
on your point of reference.
On your speed in which you're moving. It is called "frame of reference".
Einstein called it "frame of reference". So, inside your frame of reference
everything is "normal". Yes, one second is one second - for you, and for me,
and for everyone who's sitting inside my spaceship.
However, for you who are waiting for us, it is 70x longer or shorter,
depends on from which side you're looking on.
If I'm moving at the speed of 99.9999% of the speed of light...
So, there is NO objective reality. Reality is strictly subjective.
And you can relate to this fact from everyday perspective easily.
For example, maybe you came here with a friend.
And now you're discussing is this a good or a bad lecture.
Is it interesting, is it believable?
And you say: "Oh, my God, it's great. I can't believe it."
"It is a whole new world. This is the best thing I've heard for a long time."
And your friend says: "Meh, it's kind of boring, it's not plausible."
"It doesn't relate to me, I don't resonate with this new point of view".
Now... Is it "objectively" a good lecture, or is it "objectively" a bad lecture?
There is no such thing!
"OBJECTIVELY", it's good for you, and it's bad for your friend.
There is NO "objective reality".
How about what we are?
From this point of view we are mechanisms.
From this point of view we are organisms.
And being a mechanism, and being an organism is quite different.
For example, how do you get a mechanism?
Mechanism is created by putting pieces together.
For example, your car is a mechanism. How it was created?
It was created because someone in some car manufacturer
created hundreds of parts and then assembled them together.
Mechanical machines, mechanisms, are created from the outside in.
By putting separate pieces together.
Organism grows from the inside out.
Like a tree, or like - you.
How did you come here?
It was first, you know, fertilized egg and sperm, and then you grew
in your mother's belly, and then you get born, and then you continue to grow...
From the inside out. From the inside out.
Not from the outside in.
And, obviously, we are organisms.
And if you believe in the Big Bang Theory, the Universe is an organism, too.
Because there was a singularity that exploded from the inside out...
creating everything.
If God created the Universe, like the Bible says, for example,
First day God created light,
and then he created land, and then he created water, and animals,
and humans... It was put together. It was this concept.
It was mechanism.
However, if the Universe just exploded
in some gigantic space anomaly, or whatever... then it is an organism.
And it's based on energy.
Consciousness is not a byproduct of your brain complexity.
It is a mechanical point of view.
So, for example, you have a computer
from 30 years ago, and you have a modern computer.
And certainly, modern computer is much better.
It looks more intelligent than computer from 30 years ago.
Because, we advanced that mechanism, we created that mechanism better.
And if we are really mechanisms, then by adding complexity to our computer,
or to our body, or to our central nervous system, or to our brain...
You get more and more complicated machine that at one point
becomes conscious. This is mechanical point of view.
But if consciousness is inherent in every atom
then consciousness just is.
Consciousness creates everything, and consciousness is just inherent.
By creating more complex organisms, maybe you get more and more of consciousness,
Consciousness gets more complex.
But if consciousness is force that holds each
and every atom together then even a stone has some consciousness.
And certainly, that consciousness is not as complex as ours... if you take one stone.
But what about a huge stone? Let's talk about planet.
Are planets conscious?
And the answer is: "Yes". Planet is conscious.
Our Sun is conscious... on some level.
So, consciousness is not byproduct of a brain complexity.
Consciousness is inherent.
When we want to improve our life...
Here, we are focusing on circumstances.
And then we say: "We want a bigger house, I want a better car..."
"I want more love in my life, bigger family, more friends..."
That's focusing on circumstances.
But there is a better way of doing it, and that is focusing on experience.
On your perception of life.
And in the beginning we said: "our perception of life"
"is closely connected to our worldview".
Now, please choose.
You have two competing worldviews.
So this is "old worldview"...
And this is "new worldview".
Whatever you choose, it will GREATLY influence your perception of life.
It will greatly influence your life experience - your experiences.
Of course, there is no other experience then life experience
but - you understand what I mean.
So, what we are focusing is how to improve EXPERIENCE of life.
And as we will see during this course,
our life experience, our experiences, quality of our experiences
have nothing to do with circumstances.
This is old paradigm.
This part deals with matter.
And this part, this worldview, deals with energy.
So, if we are going to explore the Universe,
trying to understand the secrets,
you can focus on a physical phenomena, or non-physical phenomena.
When you are focusing on physical phenomena,
you explore and deal with mass, weight,
force, counter force, distance, speed... Materialistic parameters.
When you are focusing on energy...
you measure frequency, vibration, amplitude...
Completely different set of parameters.
Information, resonance, energy fields...
Nikola Tesla gave us a hint. He said: "The day science begins to study"
"NON-PHYSICAL phenomena, it will make huge advances", in record time.
So, what is your body?
Is it matter, or is it energy?
How should we proceed with exploring our medicine?
By studying molecules and interactions between matter,
or by exploring energy, information, resonance, vibration and so on?
Nikola Tesla, and Max Planck, and Albert Einstein, and many other scientists
that we know and that we are calling geniuses
suggested that we focus on this side.
Not on this side.
But, let me put it this way...
What EXACTLY do you want from your life?
Can you pinpoint one thing, one concept
that you will like to have more of?
Take your time, take your time, don't rush it.
Find one thing... What do you want MORE in your life?
"Money", thank you.
Always a popular choice.
What else? - "Love".
"Love" as in "romantic love"? Okay, "family", okay...
So, obviously, "family" is also... love... just different kind. Okay, what else?
- "Excitement".
- "Abundance".
- "Success", thank you.
Can I write "accomplishment"?
What else?
We want more money, we want more love, we want family, exitement...
- "Purpose", thank you.
What else?
How about peace? Deep, inner peace...
Is this it? This covers most...?
Let's see... First, we are going to eliminate "abundance"
because it doesn't mean anything. Abundance of what?
You don't want abundance of pain, or suffering, or stress.
You want abundance of good things.
"Abundance" says that we want a LOT of... other things.
What is success?
What EXACTLY is a success?
Success for you can be having a big family.
For someone else it can be having a lot of money.
For someone else...
..."BEING HAPPY", thank you!
That's an answer to all our questions.
Actually, we just want to be happy.
All these things are just means to an end.
Why do you want love, or family, or excitement?
Because it will lift you up. Because you want love.
Because - family is also love, excitement is...
What are all these things? What is a peace? What is a love?
- "EMOTIONS", thank you.
These are all "E-Motions".
E-Motion, "energy in motion".
Love is energy.
Peace is energy. It's certain quality of energy.
What else? Accomplishment.
Why do you want accomplishment? Because you want to find your purpose.
Besause you want to find that inner peace.
And by doing what you are meant to do, you will also find
some excitement. And you will fall in love with your life.
I know that this "love" is in a romantic context, but nevertheless...
So, what we we want is a happiness.
What we want is... that's funny, nobody ever remembers this one,
and it is crucial. Nobody remembers it because it is so fundamental
that we don't even think about it. And it is "freedom".
My favorite F-word. "Freedom".
We want to be happy, we want to be free, we want to have peace
and purpose, and accomplishment, and excitement, and love.
And all of these are e-motions: energy in motion.
It is a quality of energy, it is a quality of consciousness.
It is energy! It is on this side of our whiteboard.
Not on that side.
Except, maybe, for money.
So, money is in a domain of matter
because you can have, you know, a lot of money.
Usually how you would draw it - like a huge pile of banknotes or bills.
However, is money really in the matter of... matter [smiling]?
Is it in a domain of matter? Does it matter?
Money, actually, is NOT matter.
Money is information.
Maybe 2,000 years ago when money was gold or silver,
maybe we could talk about that. You know: "I want more money,"
"I want a bigger pile of gold".
Today, your money is just a number in someone else's computer.
It's on your bank account.
If I want to give you 100 euros,
I will deduct it from my bank account and add it to yours.
So, one piece of information gets smaller - that's my bank account
before and after that transaction - and your bank account gets
from smaller to bigger.
It's just a transfer of an information. Only small percentage of
money in the world, less than 10%... actually less than 5% - depending on what
you will count - there are certain bonds... ah, nevermind.
And only small percentage of money in the world today
exists in a physical form; as a coin, as a banknote...
Money is actually information.
All we want is to be happy, to be free, we want love - love is
a certain quality of emotion, of energy field
that our body interprets as emotion.
Peace, purpose, accomplishment... it is all just quality of energy
that our body will interpret as emotion.
So, we are going to continue our course by focusing on energy.
"If you want to find the secrets of the Universe, think in terms"
"of energy, frequency and vibration."
And that's exactly what are we going to do
from this point forward.
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