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Speaker 1: Now here's a highlight from Coast to Coast AM on iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: And welcome back to Coast to Coast George Norri with

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Speaker 2: our special guest Douglas Quincer. His book is called The

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Speaker 2: Quantum and the Dream, Visionary Consciousness, AI and the New Renaissance. Douglas,

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Speaker 2: tell me a little bit about quantum theory. What exactly

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Speaker 2: is that?

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Speaker 3: Well, it's always fun to go back to what Richard Feiman,

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Speaker 3: one of the most brilliant people walking the planet in

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Speaker 3: the twentieth century, who was a Nobel Prize winner in

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Speaker 3: quantum physics, and he said, anyone who says they understand

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Speaker 3: quantum theory doesn't, which is something you'd expect from a

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Speaker 3: zen master to say.

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Speaker 1: Yes.

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Speaker 3: So I'm careful to point out in my book that

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Speaker 3: whenever I speak about quantum theory from a scientific viewpoint,

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Speaker 3: I quote a renowned scientist and footnote the quote, because

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Speaker 3: I'm not a scientist and don't have a scientific background.

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Speaker 3: But I getting to before and there's a book that

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Speaker 3: one of the five or six best books, most influencier

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Speaker 3: books ever read. Perhaps some of your listeners have heard

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Speaker 3: of it, called The Dow of Physics by Fritz Geoff Copper,

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Speaker 3: who is a high level physicist, and he wrote this

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Speaker 3: in nineteen seventy five. I didn't get to it till

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Speaker 3: about nineteen eighty five, and he was about to give

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Speaker 3: a talk on the coast of California, and he was

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Speaker 3: sitting on a bench looking out over the Pacific Ocean

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Speaker 3: when suddenly, he said, for some force, some light came

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Speaker 3: down from the sky and he felt the whole ocean

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Speaker 3: was dancing in some kind of vibrational dance. And he

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Speaker 3: said it was one of the most extraordinary mystical experiences

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Speaker 3: he ever had, and that got him thinking about any

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Speaker 3: connection between science and mysticism. And he was able to

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Speaker 3: interview Werner Heisenberg, who was one of the founders of

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Speaker 3: quantum theory, who confirmed that not only was Werner Heisenberg

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Speaker 3: fascinated by spiritual mystical wisdom, but so is Nils Boor,

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Speaker 3: the father of quantum theory. So is Erwin Schrodinger, who

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Speaker 3: want a Nobel prize, and so was Wilf kang Poli

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Speaker 3: who I referenced before, who was fascinated by his dreams

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Speaker 3: and spent twenty years working on them with Carl Jung.

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Speaker 3: So what Kappa shows in his book to Doubt physicss

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Speaker 3: have sold over a million copies and has been through

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Speaker 3: three printings, and Copper says in his introduction it was

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Speaker 3: a real risk publishing this book because back then it

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Speaker 3: was considered blasphemy to consider science would have any connection

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Speaker 3: with mystical wisdom, and yet it was. Some of the

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Speaker 3: key founders of quantum theory were all totally into it,

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Speaker 3: and that can't be a coincidence, okay. And the reason

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Speaker 3: they are is because, as they felt, there was a

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Speaker 3: true affinity and that they're their experience with their love

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Speaker 3: of and their respect for mystical spiritual wisdom was one

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Speaker 3: of the reasons they were able to discover what has

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Speaker 3: been the most successful scientific theory of all time. And

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Speaker 3: the reason that you know, we can uh talk to

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Speaker 3: each other around the world on a world wide web

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Speaker 3: and all sorts of things that are available because of

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Speaker 3: because of quantum physics. So there, you know, Copper felt

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Speaker 3: there was a clear connection. Uh, the major founders of

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Speaker 3: And as someone interested in philosophy, which literally means the

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Speaker 3: love of wisdom, unfortunately that's not the way most philosophy

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Speaker 3: ability to ask big questions, knowing there's no certain answer,

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Speaker 3: but in knowing, exploring, you know, and stretching the mind

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Speaker 3: out as much as we can. And and that's what

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Speaker 3: I love about quantum theory. It's it's there are so

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Speaker 3: many visionaries who are convinced that there is a clear

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Speaker 2: How far, Douglas, can we push the mind to do

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Speaker 3: Well, here's a good example of what's called white hemisphere thinking,

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Speaker 3: which is the part of our brain that is wired

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Speaker 3: for intuition, imaginative leaps, and exploring the more mystical. Albert

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Speaker 3: Einstein was named by Time magazine the Person of the Century.

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Speaker 3: Tough to argue it. Einstein credits his discovery of relativity

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Speaker 3: And he also said, and I authenticated the quote Einstein said,

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Speaker 3: that thought experiment, the laboratory of his mind and I

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Speaker 3: Okay, in the mid nineteenth nineteenth century, the Industrial Revolution

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Speaker 3: it's fair to say, George, that all of us who

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Speaker 2: That's amazing. He and Eli Whitney with the cotton gin right.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if that was a dream or not.

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Speaker 3: But without the nightmare, it might have taken a lot

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Speaker 3: And you know we call it dream work, but really

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Speaker 3: All dreams come in the service of health and wholeness,

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Speaker 3: And I loved I was listening, you know during your

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Speaker 3: But we were given the larger, more intricately wired right

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Speaker 2: They are different. Are the two hemisphere different, Douglas?

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Speaker 3: Yes, And I now know that I was a totally

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Speaker 3: right hemisphere person all my life, but I know the terminology.

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Speaker 3: The number one expert on this is a fabulous gentleman

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Speaker 3: named Ian McGilchrist, and I had the distinct pleasure of

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Speaker 3: this brilliant book called the mastard is emissary the divided

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Speaker 3: brain and the making of the Western world. And he

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Speaker 3: is over seventeen hundred footnotes. So he's a psychiatrist, and

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Speaker 3: he is a neurologist, and he's done deep research, and

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Speaker 3: he explains the difference from an evolutionary standpoint, and he

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Speaker 3: gives it an example that I think makes it easier

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Speaker 3: for us to understand. It. Turns out, George, that all

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Speaker 3: living organisms who have brains have a divided brain left

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Speaker 3: and right. Now, evolution doesn't keep things around for a

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Speaker 3: Thinking of let's say a small bird like a robin.

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Speaker 3: In order for that robin to survive, it has to

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Speaker 3: hunt and peck for microscopic seeds in the ground. So

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Speaker 3: on very specific details. Without that ability, it's not going

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Speaker 3: it doesn't also tune into its right hemisphere, which seems

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Speaker 3: the big picture. The right hemisphere is not just focused

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Speaker 3: the part of the brain that would recognize that there's

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Speaker 3: a shadow overhead, and that shadows a hawk about to

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Speaker 3: come down and make the robin lunch. So a robin

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Speaker 3: could have the most sophisticated left hemisphere and be really

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Speaker 3: become lunch. So how does that apply to us? Well,

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Speaker 3: look at helene and climate change and what it's doing.

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Speaker 3: We did a brilliant job as humanity in developing marvelous

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Speaker 3: technologies that we all benefit from that were primarily done

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Speaker 3: by scientists and engineers looking at how to break things

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Speaker 3: right hemisphere, we weren't aware of the fact that our

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Speaker 3: technologies generated by fossil fuel were destroying the very environment

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Speaker 3: that keeps us alive. So we need to have a

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Speaker 3: much better balance between left and right hemisphere if we're

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