I believe thoughts can influence the physical world | John Valentino for Heretics

This consciousness researcher claims people can influence the physical world with their minds. If he’s right, it would upend our notion of reality.
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The world of science is starting to understand that consciousness directly impacts processes in physics. If their findings are true, there's an entire realm in biology in which people's thoughts, intentions, and feelings could have a very direct impact on their physical life.
But what people don't realize is that there may be mechanisms out there where your thoughts affect the physical world around you, affect your physical body, affect what's possible for you.
If people incorporate this idea more into their day-to-day life, scientists say they'd have a little bit more wonder in the world and find more interesting and positive outcomes in their physical reality.
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[@veehope2702]

This might explain the placebo effect.

[@marcpatzelt2430]

I would really like to see that "strong empirical evidence"! Are there any scientific papers on this? Where can I find those studies he's talking about?

[@freethink]

Totally fair. Here's a link to a list: icrl.org/scholarly-publications/pear-publications/ and a summary of the experiment described. www.psyleron.com/intention.html -- judge for yourself if you consider it strong empirical evidence!

[@telescopilan]

@@freethink Can you link such references to the description of your videos? I'm sure it will help many, and it might gain your videos more credibility points.

[@timthedude1427]

There was also all the random number generators on September eleventh that weren't random as soon as everyone in the world focused on one thing .this has been an idea forever .ever since we knew being an observer somehow the universe or particles know we are watching and we collapse a single wave function this is the reality of things us watching observing or thinking speaking all effects things. water has emotional memory. trees scream when cut down and other trees mourn them (p.s.that makes them observers so if they fall and no one's there they do make a sound because they are the observer ) Meditation it's effects on the brain . Psyops .cia ops they all are proof there is a much deeper thing happening here then most people tend to realize even inanimate objects something you see as a chair or couch or table is as alive as you in this crazy place and just like you they are basically 99% empty space because they are made of atoms . Which are also alive and conscious of you they willfully hold you together .

[@Yersinia]

@@freethink All this papers they link are 20 or even 40 years old... Any new science?

[@RYANTHEORY_]

Give it the benefit of the doubt, and take a peak at the research done by Dr Roger Nelson and Radin Dean's teams. It's very interesting to say the least.

[@freethink]

Getting a number of requests for links to publications and sources, very fairly 🙂 Here's a more in depth history of the lab and field: psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/princeton-engineering-anomalies-research-pear Here are some links to research papers and related work: icrl.org/scholarly-publications/pear-publications/ www.psyleron.com/researchSummary.html www.scientificexploration.org/

[@meKevinWalsh]

Please link to this in the description and pin this comment. I made such a request before seeing this. Don't worry, I'll still like, subscribe, and comment. ;-) If these are the best, most widely accepted and peer-reviewed sources, it appears that psi research is still fully separate from the scientific establishment. Maybe that's due to a lack of maturity of psi research, lack of maturity of the scientific establishment, or both. Or maybe the evidence does not support the existence of these psi phenomenon which is why there's no overlap. I'm interested to see which is the case.

[@LearnThaiRapidMethod]

Ok I skimmed through one paper at random, Dunne, Nelson, Jahn. First impressions: 1. No double-blind design. And no control group(s). 2. The mechanics were quite complicated (one would have thought that it would be much easier for an untrained, somewhat unfocused mind to influence something relatively easy, like a compass direction than something that requires relatively high energy or force to influence, even mechanically). 3. It wasn’t clear if they identified individual “talents”, some people having a slightly more significant effect than others (or not). 4. There was no consistency in what each individual was required to do mentally. 5. No mention of the study being replicated elsewhere. 6. Too much opportunity for research bias: it would perhaps be more interesting to try to prove the opposite (Popper: testing the false hypothesis) - to show a significant result where there is no attempt to influence the outcome by mental exertion.

[@keggluneq]

All those publications are in pseudoscience journals but I might check them out for shits and giggles. Not expecting much.

[@MegaPoliyo]

How is this a revelation. I literally typed this sentence on my phone. My consciousness moved atoms and therefore the world. This is literally how consciousness works.

[@freethink]

The theory is that your consciousness can affect the physical world without direct and measurable physical interaction.

[@meKevinWalsh]

@@freethink I think Mega makes a reasonable point: trace that intention to write the comment back to its initial arising and you need to make the same leap to consciousness affecting the physical world. I suppose the difference is moving atoms in the body vs. moving atoms not in the body without any physical bridge.

[@MegaPoliyo]

Firstly you're conteadictijg yourselves @freethink because he's literally using a tool to directly measure the effect of consciousness on a physical system 😂 the second he does that then my point is made. Secondly, define measurable physical interaction. The quarks in your brain literally move based on your will affecting other subatomic immeasurable particles in ways we don't understand. Also when I move my hand my protons aren't literally smashing into other protons nothing ever "touches" anythin else. I think your guest is marvelling at exactly what the nature of consciousness is.

[@keggluneq]

@@freethink So you're saying that consciousness has a supernatural effect on matter? I find that hard to swallow given that there's no evidence that anything supernatural actually exists, or can exist. If true, that theory would break physics.

[@jimbojonesmanifesto7634]

I think he is saying that consciousness has a natural effect on matter, not supernatural lol. This is what makes the real science hard....people thinking from hubris like you.

[@oO0Xenos0Oo]

This guy is right. Everytime i think it is good idea to buy a stock or some crypro, it goes down. This cant be a coincedence!

[@grimsobad8545]

Waiting for the crypto bots to: “NoW iZ ThE RiGhT TimE To InVesT In CrypTo I’m GeEtUng Fu€k€d bY A GoLdeN DiLdo”

[@holleey]

an easy way to derive this is to understand that reality is what we perceive. then, perception is of course a product of consciousness. therefore, consciousness cannot only affect reality, but is ultimately the only thing that can. it helps to think of reality not as this one objective thing, but as something each and everyone creates for themselves. reality is subjective in nature.

[@keggluneq]

No, consciousness affects our perception of reality, not reality itself. Physical reality exists independently from our consciousness and perception.

[@holleey]

@@keggluneq perhaps. ultimately nothing about the nature of reality can be confirmed as fact as it cannot be observed from the outside - any and all measurements we make will always have to go through our perception. however, what we can do is to measure the quality of a theory based on the number of assumptions it depends on (generally the fewer the better) and how well it is able to concisely explain our observations & measurements without cherry-picking and without giving rise to paradoxes. when it comes to that, models where consciousness is superset to physical reality generally can do a significantly better job.

[@keggluneq]

@@holleey That's all philosophical gibberish that gets us nowhere towards an understanding of reality. In science, we assume that we can objectively observe and measure the physical world. We can even quantify the limits of what we can observe and measure. Imagining that I'm a brain in a vat is a pointless pedantic exercise. Making the axiomatic assumption that what we observe is real will yield the most parsimonious model of physical reality.

[@holleey]

@@keggluneq for better or worse, there is no way around philosophy when it comes to the nature of reality and/or consciousness. that doesn't make it gibberish. it's a component of exploration that is to be respected if we are to make any real progress. without it, we could only ever build on what we believe to be true, which is extremely constrained. what we observe is real - I never suggested otherwise - but in a subjective way. subjective does not mean "not real". observation itself can of course only be subjective as it is a function of consciousness. even the digits displayed on a scientific measuring device are subject to interpretation. in science we speak of theories and models, which are both terms which acknowledge that even what's thought of as accepted "fact" is merely an attempt at describing our observations - something that can be replaced any time if someone can do better. confusing a model for the real thing is the single biggest mistake a scientist can make. the objective does exist - but we as animals cannot possibly look at it objectively. what ultimately remains is only the measurement of a theory's quality as I described earlier.

[@RYANTHEORY_]

Phd Roger Nelson and Radin Dean were also considered heretics even though the project they've worked on gave some very interesting results. All i know is that consciousness is the only thing that gives me access to this reality not knowing its properties before i die would be sad. We need more unbiased research on this phenomenon.

[@ThriftyCHNR]

This guy is not a heretic, most people believe in things just like Harry Potter

[@RemotHuman]

"Some participants 'affect the line'." Obviously the line will go up some of the time, so it will align with some participants, that's still random chance, you are just selecting the ones who got it by chance and saying they are psychic. Also if you've given up a lot to do this then there is incentive to come up with an interesting result because that increases chances you get published and also less shame for putting a career to waste for nothing

[@keggluneq]

Exactly, they're just cherry picking the data to "prove" what they want to see. Junk science.

[@KenSDCA]

I read a self published book called, "Mind Underlies Spacetime", a very long time ago, where the author did the math that shows this. It has stuck with me for decades. And, the book, "The Hippies Who Changed Physics" went down this road,too.

[@oceanwonders]

Is it described in a way that's understandable for non-"math PhDs"?

[@Beresunablle]

So what. Placebo effect and mindset or are we talking about more super natural like telekenesis? Because placebo is already proven to work in some degree depending on the subject while mindsets is basically have major influence in your life as a person no matter how much talent someone have he will always fail if his focusing to much on not failing because thats the feedback he will always see rather than focusing solely on succeeding which is the ideal method.

[@coryart]

“There is a thinking stuff from which all things are made, and which, in its original state, permeates, penetrates, and fills the interspaces of the universe. A thought in this substance produces the thing that is imaged by the thought. A person can form things in his thought, and, by impressing his thought upon formless substance, can cause the thing he thinks about to be created.” Wallace D. Wattles

[@LearnThaiRapidMethod]

Well, call me a skeptic. I followed the links and just went round in circles. The link to the publication itself no longer exists either. And the research dept. shut down in 2007. Why the major revelation now? Too many flaws. 1. A REG is never really random. 2. Sample sizes seemed way too small. It’s vital to look at the statistical calculation in detail and the exact r (significance) value. 3. Theoretically, thoughts or mental signals may be able to influence the physical world… but so far it only appears possible biologically, in the body of the individual. Not external objects (other people, other bodies, machines)mat a distance. It’s certainly interesting to identify how thoughts influence biological phenomena, like the releasing of hormones or the movement of muscles. And that itself is a philosophical minefield. How do we know that our thoughts give rise to these actions and not the actions (specifically, biological triggers that occur before the observed actions) giving rise to the thoughts? Maybe there is very little if any “free will”… 4. Psychics are mostly fraudsters or magicians. It’s probably fairly trivial to set up a situation actions-at-a-distance appears plausible. Ask Darren Brown. 5. Where are the peer review and duplication studies. Surely Harvard (pre 2007) wasn’t the only institution doing this kind of research?

[@klungkity]

“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.” ― Nikola Tesla

[@stevencasteelassistantgene5263]

Very cool. Really appreciated you articulating everything so well Mr. Valentino. I've held similar beliefs for a couple years now.

[@Drad_]

Personally I believe the literal opposite may be true, if the universe is deterministic then everything that happens is inevitable including every thought we have. So prophetic dreams and stuff may just be echoes of that inevitability.

[@finnyjoseph7050]

So how come my thoughts can affect reality around me and make coincidences in life seemingly nonexistent the more I try to do so?

[@B.Whittaker]

Perhaps everything but our thoughts are deterministic, and the void (our subconscious) that they emerge from is something much more complex, and possibly even beyond comprehension. In that case, we *do* have agency to some extent.

[@B.Whittaker]

@@finnyjoseph7050 your anecdotal experience isn’t a very good argument when compared to empirical evidence of the contrary, and this phenomenon is called confirmation bias

[@finnyjoseph7050]

@@B.Whittaker I mean it's enough of a proof to myself to believe it's much more than that. You don't have to believe me.

[@B.Whittaker]

@@finnyjoseph7050 Scientists aren’t typically fond of operating on blind faith. Pseudo-scientists, however, don’t seem to mind…

[@MichaelMartinussen]

THANKS FOR DOING THE WORK 😀

[@dlsamson]

Those who are curious about such things should listen to Bernardo Kastrup. He has many posts on KZbin and has published in venues s.a. Scientific American. When you appreciate that our conception of matter is fundamentally only a mental construct, you start to appreciate that there is more going on than we realize.

[@nicholasmorrison1476]

There was an elasto mania save file simply titled It Works. The only way you could proceed to the level was to glitch through the start block. There were no inputs that could make this happen, it was seemingly random. But with practice you would get better at glitching the start. It worked! Love to see the experimental scientific data.

[@DarkGT]

This reminds of a device that was used for bomb detection in the middle east. It was a fake, but was powered by physic powers. It didn't work at all and people have died because of it.

[@nabint]

I remember playing Elasto Mania. Learned about that level today.

[@lordadrius5714]

Can anyone provide a link to replication studies done of their experiments? It seems to me like the last bit of research they did was 7 years ago and nobody ever replicated anything. I would find it very interesting if his claims are true, but if you can't replicate the results in proper conditions it it's not worth the paper it's written on.

[@jacoblear6664]

cdn.centerforinquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2006/05/22164608/p54.pdf This paper appears to have a good argument against it based off the data published by the lab that this guy worked in. I looked up Psyleron and after skimming through their website, I'm highly skeptical of this guy and any work he presents on the topic. If they have any solid evidence supporting their claims, they're doing a good job of not sharing it. I could be wrong, but that's my take on it.

[@freethink]

Sure thing. Here's an overview of the history of the original lab and attempts - successful and not - to replicate the experiments. psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/princeton-engineering-anomalies-research-pear Related links that might be interesting: www.wired.com/1995/04/pear/ icrl.org/scholarly-publications/icrl-publications/ www.psyleron.com/intention.html

[@hedwardd]

The links the author shared are pretty much all sites with the stated purpose of proving psychic phenomena so take them with a huge grain of salt

[@sadieb333]

People always forget the "until" part in fake it til you make it faking it + TIME = making it

[@scottm2553]

Freethink should do some subtle comment and liking solicitation to help boost their videos. This is great content and that really would help to get recognized by the algorithm.

[@freethink]

What would subtle comment solicitation look like?

[@scottm2553]

@@freethink I'm just spitballing ideas here but: "If you like what you see here, drop a like and a comment. It helps with the youtube algorithm so we are able to make more amazing content like this." Or maybe a little more aggressively: "If this video hit X number of likes, we'll do _____. Or we'll interview _____..." Graham Stephan had some of the most aggressive tactics I've seen, but I think it worked with his audience/style and pushed him way up. He talked about this in one of his videos a few years back and how a video would go viral and it would put him in a different algorithm tier for all the rest of his videos.

[@Pedro-vl7yr]

Can someone please explain the experiment more clearly? I didn't really understand what was happening.

[@prosperousguy]

Neville Goddard has been saying this for years, his work describes us as God in our universe and that what we want to manifest comes about by our belief, faith and projections of what it would be like if our desires were fulfilled. What would we see, what would we hear (others congratulating us, talking about us) what would we smell, taste what would we be doing differently. The implications are Fascinating and I AM living into that future as I get better at "Walking in the Faith of my wish fulfilled"... Great video, thx!

[@SunnyOst]

Donald Hoffman was recently on Lex Friedman podcast, he talked about similar (although coming from a totally different side) ideas being scientifically studied for decades, so I don't think you guys are _the_ first. It takes quite a bit of practice to get a hang of this well enough to see consistent results, especially under pressure of a study proving it right - every drop of doubt works against you, for example. Can't really confirm it with just anybody who lives by inertia, gotta select "consciousness athlete" types only but then people will scream confirmation bias. Our experience is very subjective too - you can easily find evidence for both sides. Kudos to them for trying to make it somewhat objective, no matter how impossible it might seem. Besides the snobby type of science there are books on this topic dating centuries back. There is even strong evidence that the bible was specifically on this topic.

[@Lvx13]

I like the things you say

[@rlee4516]

Knowledge is a special case of information that has causal power.

[@versatilityinaction]

I always get a car park 😉 Ah! There's a book you might enjoy, it's called - "The Kybalion". Make of it as you will...

[@mcmk6588]

Some monks have been able to control body temperature at will.

[@ferventheat]

"I believe there is empirical evidence that consciousness can impact physical matter" says the consciousness inhabiting and controlling a human body. Watch the documentary "Third eye spies" for a more detailed inquiry.

[@spyder-jebdrew9769]

I do this, it's natural luck, because your looking for it and then if intent is positive, it usually happens

[@satindollyxx]

this guy is right. we need a collective shift in our beliefs as to how our thoughts control our reality. or else the whole human race will be stuck in the hamster cage of limiting beliefs.

[@parmenidesofelea9092]

Are their any good books on this subject?

[@thomasvleminckx]

Yeah, don't let the claimant speak for the skeptics. They will twist their words to make the skeptic's demands for evidence seem unreasonable. About his experiment with the line going up and down: I have questions regarding sample size (how many predictions per person), because when you throw a 6-sided die it can take MANY throws before you get that nice 16,6% per possibility distribution. For all I know, he uses too few observations and because he's biased towards the results he wants (he's clearly someone who wants to believe) he calls it a day while the results are still in his favor

[@gingie2542]

Observation probably doesn't change reality as much as it changes which possible instance of an event you exist in. Do that enough and you may as well be god

[@M3g840]

What he’s talking about is not a new concept. Like at all lol ancient philosophers discussed these types of concepts. It sounds like he is talking about the law of attraction.

[@brunoflorentino7006]

i think that in subatomic its already observed by the The Delayed Choice Quantum Eraser experiment

[@jacquelineknauff4835]

I CHOOSE A DIFFERENT REALITY

[@keltonfoster]

I like the song infinity where it says love isn't random we are chosen

[@finnyjoseph7050]

I've proven it to myself many times that this really works. The more you try and believe, the more it keeps happening.

[@thomasvleminckx]

confirmation and observation bias

[@GreenAppelPie]

I reject your reality and substitute my own.

[@baticadavinci3984]

AMEN!!!

[@Funstuff13613]

May The Force be with you

[@TiagoReul]

Oh, please. Where's that study published? How many times was this "experiment" repeated? Why was this "experiment" made in a crowd? Is this behavior repeated if it's made individually? Where's the control group? What happens if the system is slightly biased towards the other direction (tell people to go up but the system has 50.5% of chances of going down)? Was the opposite effect tested with a different crowd told to made the arrow go down? What does he think is trully random system? Is it a Random Number Generator? If so, I have bad news. Where's the dataset so we can check for ourselves?

[@JasonSmith-jv7wl]

When I saw this video I was like, “Oh wow, I hope this isn’t pseudoscience bs, maybe he is a physicist with a slightly fringe opinion with evidence.” This was not the case. Glad to see another person that sees this for what it is. So many people in here want to believe this so much that they haven’t applied due skepticism.

[@freethink]

Totally fair questions. Here's a more in depth history of the lab and field: psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/princeton-engineering-anomalies-research-pear Here are links to their research papers and related work: icrl.org/scholarly-publications/pear-publications/

[@gheorghitacristea5750]

First case you have a line that can go straight, up or down. Totally random, each have 33.3% probability to occur. Pretty sure some coincidence will happen at this rate.

[@swordwaker7749]

As far as I know, there is nothing special about "observing" a quantum state. You could use a human or a cheap computer to observe it and the result would be the same.

[@B.Whittaker]

What counts as an ‘observer?’ Does a computer count? Does intelligence without the same level of agency as a human count? Is the information ‘observed’ before a human ‘observes’ it, or only after?

[@swordwaker7749]

@@B.Whittaker Well, I think the truth is that you cannot know where the particles are until they collide with a photon or something. You do not see anything without hitting. The light simply hits your eyes. Just imagine those things as snowflakes. At a very small level where every speckle of light can change how the "snowflake" will land. You simply cannot "observe" what will happen without changing the outcome, or when the outcome (snowflake landing or something) has been determined.

[@B.Whittaker]

@@swordwaker7749 The question is sort of whether or not these events are taking place with our without being observed. This is Schrodinger’s thought experiment. Nothing has been proven as of yet. We may *never* have the answers to these questions. When you say, “as far as I know, there is nothing special about ‘observing’ a quantum state,’ you don’t actually know, as no one really does. I’m simply trying to provide you with food for thought.

[@ThriftyCHNR]

Randomness doesn't equal free will!

[@swordwaker7749]

@@B.Whittaker I don't think the consciousness things make anything different. It was just some philosophers making something of something which simply cannot be observed before hitting something. Particles on the subatomic level cannot be freely observed without interfering. Even a single photon carries enough momentum to change the result. Moreover, humans are products of evolutions, too random and chaotic of a process to utilize something like quantum mechanics which require very precise thing. Quantum computers have to be cooled to near absolute zero. To put the nail in the coffin, imagine one has the ability to tell some atoms "I want X", how would atoms evaluate X? How would atoms know that a particular arrangement of atoms mean winning the lottery and another mean losing? How would it know that a slight disturbance in the lottery drawing process means that the lottery winner changes but a large change in how the digits are printed on the lottery means nothing?

[@shway1]

"some participants create fairly significant deviations" that's it? wouldn't you expect that with randomness anyway? best case scenario this is just p-hacking. he claims he had to give up a better job or whatever, if he had that option in the first place, but have you considered how this type of things attracts gullible people he could scam?

[@wovasteengova]

I'm waiting for someone to take notice of me... Something happened with me, with my bad trip from 🌿. I can start teaching the scientists now.

[@bentleymayes1579]

Absolutely impossible to find any details on these studies

[@elinope4745]

I look for things to love about the world, but sadly many of the best things in life are illegal.

[@TheJonathankang]

Maybe this clip can attract more views by changing title to "Princeton researcher believes in the Force."

[@meKevinWalsh]

Y'all need to link to meta analyses of high quality, peer reviewed studies in the description, if this exists at all. You called this series Heretics so you know it's a controversial claim. Back it up!

[@MonkeyDao9]

This concept and varied forms of validation of it dates back thousands of years or more. Whomever doesn’t accept that is denying the existence of ancient sacred knowledge traditions.

[@shway1]

"ancient sacred traditions" are words that should inspire increased skepticism and distrust.

[@shadfurman]

I am extremely interested, but also highly skeptical of this type of research. It would be awesome and incredible, opening up whole new realms of research if this were reasonably proven. But the, "what would be the incentive for researchers to fake this", is an extremely poor dismissal. It's the same incentives for anyone to fake anything. We know people fake things, even at cost to themselves, researchers are people, so regardless of what the incentives are, incentives are likely numerous and varied, we know researchers will fake things even at cost to their credibility and income. People do it all the time. I'm not saying they faked anything, I'm only saying that's a dismissive and poorly reasoned explanation.

[@whatwouldbenice]

Get him on the Joe Rogan Podcast

[@timthedude1427]

I think this is true too .. I had some strange "anomalies" as well but just throughout life 😂 if everything is conscious then it's completely plausible our consciousness can change everything

[@br3nto]

So they have shown that some people can cause statistical deviations in random number generation, but do they know how or why? Is it reproducible? If the answers were yes, I’m sure they’d get more grant money. Regardless of how correct or incorrect the science is, I’m sure there would be an abundance of money available from certain religious and spiritualist groups to investigate this stuff.

[@UnlimitlesslyFunnyDude]

we shouldn't believe anything but to test things experimetally .....

[@andrewmorris5947]

All is mind. Mind impulses and gives light. All is light. Matter is light Mind and intention is the impulse of matter manifestation from light

[@fukutaichou1903]

Almost closed the video after the levitating cat

[@detodounpoco37]

Duh, of course. Every moment of our living is a consciousness experience

[@powercatsp]

Does lucid dreaming count?

[@Graeme_Lastname]

If you flip a coin for long enough sooner or later you will get three heads in a row. 🙂

[@areacode3816]

I had heard of this study before. Nice to meet the people behind the research. I also heard of interesting split beam tests done with similar results. Interesting experience life.

[@jessstuart7495]

Confirmation bias is a hell of a thing.

[@zeideerskine3462]

Stepping through the multiverse is different from living in the universe.

[@rl8925]

Ofc. nothing new there tho : )

[@existantf21]

if the graph went up then this device can be used as a human computer interface

[@freethink]

That would be interesting! To put it in perspective, though, the effect is quite small. It's still interesting because it should not exist at all with our current models--but there's still, as you might expect, some controversy around it. psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/princeton-engineering-anomalies-research-pear

[@deannatroy8113]

A suggestion for the very weird switches and odd happenings in my life. This thought has passed through my mind previously, but I am still unsure as to what the real answer is. I can heal (and others) from injuries in a few minutes (my husband always askes me to do so for him), and my life seems so influxed with so many odd experiences. Every person can either hate me or love me, depending on the day. Everything can align and incredible things happen one day, and I can be the most unluckiest person in the world the next. I always seem to end up with everything I have ever desired (I'm not interested in the usual things) in the most unlikely ways, at the times I have wanted them most. Yet if I believe it to be impossible, all hell breaks loose. I seem to go through cycles and both ways seem so real at the time. I really am not certain what is happening, but many times it has nothing to do with me or my way of thinking at all. There seems to be quite a few other factors I am in a way aware of, that are not able to exist if this suggestion is the end-all. It's very confusing. So many times I have turned a blind eye just to stay or be considered 'sane' or accomplish the things necessary at the time. I think most people must do this, or learn from a very young age to take it for granted that there are things that cannot be questioned or considered. Society rules deplete me.

[@bdi_vd3677]

Hi. I've been on the cycle, as you call it, but only on the bad side of it for 29 years. Now I am transitioning to the positive side, but I feel like I have simply to believe that everything works out and when I do, it really does. I had a lot of going inside me, which had nothing to do with the place I lived at or people that were my surroundings: ideas, beliefs, interests - all very different from how people experience growing up. Now I am looking for a possibility to heal, but don't know how it can be done. Can you provide a guidance?

[@abinashpanda818]

My consciousness just want the whole should burn 🔥 in front of me and including me because I am a fucking idiot.

[@Ou8y2k2]

Hippie from the 60s: we're all connected maaan! This guy: we're all connected man.

[@ooglyga6100]

I love how most of this information is just flying over all of your heads. You guys are so entrenched in everything going on around you that you don't even realize that you're affecting your reality directly. If you think all the coincidences that happen in your life and synchronicities are simply happening just because then you guys are sadly mistaken. This is coming from someone that saw a UFO up close and it was because years before that I really wanted to see something and researched it in depth and then it happened. That's all I'm going to say :-) keep enjoying your boring lives and never understanding why stuff happens the way it does

[@wovasteengova]

I had a really bad trip, and now when I smoke I'm completely disconnected from reality, I access the internal thoughts, I'm able to pull any information from the past, and my thoughts are predicting the future....the freaky thing, it's predictions are happening and I feel like I'm not in control. It's like my brain will do anything for me to go in to get help because it thinks something is wrong with me after that trip. It will cause disturbing imagery at night, to racing thoughts.. Anything...the last straw for me was recently. And the crazy thing is, I can feel what other ppl will think of me, based on how I would feel if I was doing the actions it's predicting. My brain on weed is making plans to go get help, while making predictions about how my life will change, and how other people will feel about me.

[@B.Whittaker]

It’s time to put down the blunt

[@deannatroy8113]

You are on the verge of heading somewhere that you don't want to be or experience. Stopping drugs won't prevent it at this point but please try to stop anyway because it will help in your recovery. With everything in you, try not to focus on the "thoughts". Find other ways to cope with the past that really help (and won't just bandage the pain for a bit). Try to focus on real actions that you take and divert your mind at all times (such as puzzels, self-improvement or motivation talks). I hope you'll be ok

[@wovasteengova]

@@deannatroy8113 ya ik but it was just weed didn't think it was much.. But some people's brains are different... Shouldn't use drugs. Gl to America legalizing weed

[@B.Whittaker]

@@deannatroy8113 Where exactly do you assume they’re going, and why won’t stopping drugs help?

[@bdi_vd3677]

@@wovasteengova well, I do feel how people exactly experience my interactions with them. Like holding a metal tube and hitting it, so you feel vibrations going down it's shaft and coming back. With people who are highly attuned to others like me, we may spontaneously share mental images without cue words like "imagine", "what if you could see how..." or similar. *P.S. Also feeling interactions as a branching tree in time.

[@abinashpanda818]

Congratulations🎉🥳👏 in advance for your nobel Prize.

[@fatjay9402]

Sound wired

[@NotHPotter]

Holy main character syndrome, Batman.

[@joaopedrorocha5693]

I'm pretty confident that reality is much more amazing and mysterious than our senses can get and what our instruments can measure (at least for now, and far on the future). If you stop to think about the fact that we simply don't know supposedly 95% (by the best guesses that we can make) of the the stuff that composes the universe and we can detect in our telescopes, that our modern science is based upon relativity which has a postulate that no one has a clue about where it came from and quantum mechanics which the specialists on the subject can't agree on WTF it is really about, anyone would be pretty sure that we know next to nothing. Affirming that our models of reality are the best one's is simply arrogance, and we miss a lot of the beauty of our universe by assuming we know something ...

[@cesarcosta7577]

the way his tongue moves inside his mouth when he talks is funny 😂

[@ryan2130]

Thoughts and dreams aren't part of the physical world. Dreams don't even feel like they exist in time. Sometimes it feels like years pass by in dreams. In the Bible, God and angels come to people in dreams. You can see dreams, but they aren't physical objects. If dreams were physical objects, other people could see them and touch them.

[@ThriftyCHNR]

consciousness is not separate from reality. material reality is the only thing so far as we know. This guy is NOT a heretic, but an apologist for the masses. Most of the population believes in metaphysical/magical bunk.

[@Electraflare198]

what

[@deanthephilosopher9486]

@@Electraflare198 people always want to believe that theirs something greater like magic or religion. But even with science advancing people still chose to believe that their is some “mystical” power in the universe they can interact with

[@vickyprabhat]

Why we always choose cat for our quantum experiments. ? 🤣

[@devsimplified21]

we want to see te experiment , otherwise he can tell whatever he wants , i'll not belive him

[@calwerz]

It is either complete garbage or the most important discovery in the history of humanity. If I would need to make a bet which one, it is most probably the first.

[@cabanford]

Nah.

[@emmanuelr710]

I wonder why he never mentioned quantum entaglement?

[@yeetdeets]

I challenge him to do this with 10 000 subjects and show a statistical analysis. If he had done this and found what he claims, he would have told us of this study. Until then, this is woowoo crazy pseudo science.

[@baticadavinci3984]

I pity you...

[@M3g840]

It would be great if he could do that. However, just because he hasn’t doesn’t make what he’s saying untrue. It just means on a certain level he did a poor job of presenting his argument or findings.

[@yeetdeets]

@@M3g840 So this random guy found evidence he cant share of physics which redefine hundreds of years of science. I have a bridge to sell you by the way. It's cheap I promise.

[@M3g840]

@@yeetdeets he wouldn’t be the first random guy to challenge what has been the norm. You can keep that bridge, thanks. I’m perfectly fine walking along the water.

[@ooglyga6100]

@@yeetdeets what an interesting and in-depth thought from someone with such a stupid name. Did you choose that name because you wanted to be ironic and controversial? Do you even Explore alternate States of consciousness? Or is it too woo woo for you? I always question the Integrity of someone that's coming on and shitting on something without even trying

[@chasingcuriosity1]

What is this new fad with the dumb back drape things

[@byronsmith1982]

Joe dispenza

[@DarkGT]

Okay if this person wants to proof us wrong then he should simple "wish" it really bad and will become true. I think it's more like the ignoring the facts and only observing those we wish to be true and the placebo effect of things working because we are told they do.

[@jacquelineknauff4835]

WE HAVE MORE THAT ONE REALITY

[@gabedarrett1301]

I subscribed for objective science, not subjective and abstract theories

[@adamzapotok2681]

I see more proof of this every day in my life and in the lives around me.

[@jacquelineknauff4835]

This is not REALITY

[@emilydoesmath7893]

"human consciousness interacts with physical reality" BAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAH

[@adamzapotok2681]

If this is how reality works, belief affecting the outcome, and one does not believe, it would then attract to them evidence of their own belief and not let them have control over their reality. There are hundreds of books on the subject. A good place to start is the field of a scientifically based book by a reporter. Or see the work of dr.emoto

[@zenithkarres4348]

Does John Valentino use Twitter and if so, can you send me his @