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← Previous segment →you put both hands under the thing and your brain will think that it's controlling your other hand because the mirror has reversed them, and then your brain connects to the hand that wasn't working and then you can use it. Does that just freak you out? Your brain is so elastic it can just want to control an arm, either your own arm that lost the connection through a stroke or even a freaking mechanical arm, a robot arm. And the part that you have to do is visualize it. See where I'm going with this? You just have to visualize it in your freaking brain and, boom, you do it.
Now the mirrored box trick is an aid to visualization basically. It just gives you, you know, if you can't imagine it you just see it so you don't have to imagine it. You're seeing it but you're not seeing something real. I'll tell you, if you don't think you can change a whole bunch of stuff about your brain, you know my experience. As for if there's even one person who doesn't know this by now, I'm going to train them to this. And once you learn how elastic and how programmable the brain and the body are, it changes everything about your perception of just what's possible, why things work the way they do, why people become what they become, all that stuff. You just, your brain opens up and you stop thinking, "Oh, it's free will," and it's just some kind of, you know, mechanical process.
But somebody says psilocybin helps. It certainly does.
So Glenn Greenwald is doing his usual tremendous work for the public. You know there are some people in the, what world would you say, journalists, journalism world I guess, that you know of course everybody works for money so there's nobody who isn't doing it at least partially because it's a job. But I feel like there are some people who are just taking it to another level. They're actually trying to help the world and I think Greenwald is one of those. And here's his edition today.
So you knew the story. Tucker Carlson, famously, and a Revolver publication have been talking about the fact that, and Revolver I think is the initiator of this idea, that the FBI had penetrated and had assets in a number of different organizations. And there's some thought that maybe, maybe at least this is the conspiracy theory part, unproven, that maybe the FBI is causing the terrorism. In other words somebody is just trying to, well, is trying to push an organization a little farther than it might have pushed itself. And that's, I would say there's no proof of that, but there are some questions that are unanswered. This sort of gives you the feeling, sort of a suggestion like maybe you better look into this a little more.
So one of the things that Greenwald is correcting, I saw in his writing today on Substack, and by the way you should follow him, follow him on Substack. That would be the most useful thing you could do as well as Twitter. He said that when Tucker and the Revolver guy were noting that, and by the way could somebody please in the comments help me because I keep talking about the stor
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y without doing the minimal amount of Googling to find out the name of the Revolver guy. One of you must know it. Just put it in the comments and I'll say, "That is it." Oh, Darren Beattie. Is that the name? Okay, thank you. Well that didn't take long. So Darren Beattie. So first of all I apologize to Darren Beattie because I shouldn't be telling a story without mentioning his name since basicall…
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