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nts out. Over 99 percent of all Alzheimer drug attempts failed. He was one of them and it was in a subsidiary of his company and they never sold any stock in the subsidiary. So the stock you know was worth a zillion dollars and then it was worth zero but he rode it all the way. He rode it to the top. He rode it at the bottom which was the ethical thing to do because there was a point where he coul…
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So there's this whole big sciencey experiment that's supposed to tell you about the nature of reality and all it is is it's hard to find out where a photon is. It's all it's like one of the most basic things that they try to use to explain how scientists understand the universe but you don't know. They just don't know how to use words clearly.
If they use words clearly they would say well there are photons. We don't know where they are until we look but once we look there they are. And they call that collapsing the wave. You feel how about tell me you didn't know where it was but then when you checked there it was.
Now there's an oddity to it about whether you're measuring it or not. So what the double slit experiment tries to show but I think it's all actually is that there's something about observation that turns things real.
Now suppose you don't believe what I just said. Instead you believe the scientists. So the scientists would say that the things don't become real until they're looked at. And it was a study that I tweeted today in May I guess that or was written up in May of this year that there is no preferred reality. It's all subjective. And that the two movies on one screen is actually literally what's happening. That is to say my subjective impression of what's happening is no more or less true than your subjective impression and there isn't any base reality.
So science is sort of heading in that direction. So that's two movies on one screen which I've been telling you forever that reality is obviously subjective in my opinion.
So here's my additive tying together of two things that shouldn't be tied together to blow your mind. It's coming. I haven't said it yet. If it's true that you can collapse reality by observation and also measurement, if it's true that's what the scientists say, could it also be true since observation is sort of a weird thing it has to do with consciousness I guess. If your eyes were closed it wouldn't happen the scientists would say. If you were standing right in front of it with your eyes closed you couldn't tell it was happening. The particle wouldn't really be anywhere but as soon as you open your eyes boop it pops immediately into one position.
Now I'm simplifying because you can't see a photon but let's say you're using equipment to look at it. All right. So that's what the actual scientists say is real.
So if you were to take their beliefs that that's real I'm going to extend that now to a thing called affirmations and positive thinking. Affirmations are visualizing what you want to happen in the future as if it's a reality. Now if being conscious in the present can collapse a wave field as they say and make something real is it possible that you can collapse reality b
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y imagining it really clearly? Because if you told me that consciousness can collapse reality I would say well then you're telling me reality is subjective because if I'm not there it's not collapsing or if I'm not measuring it. But I've had this is anecdotal my personal observation over a lifetime is that the more clearly I can see a specific future the more likely it happens whether it's good o…
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