English transcript

Watch this video before it's removed from the internet.

Take a look at this pirouetting lady here.

Just look at it for a few seconds.

Can you raise your hand if you are watching her rotate in a clockwise direction?

Okay, can you put your hand up now if you are watching her rotating in an anti-clockwise direction?

Okay, can you put your hand up if you've seen her rotating in both directions?

And how many people can't see her moving at all?

Ah, you laugh.

Well, let me tell you what's going on here.

And you can find this on the web so you can experiment with it yourself.

If you haven't seen her rotating in both directions, take your focus from the head down to the heel of the foot that appears to go close to the floor here

and then bring your focus back up and that may actually trigger a change in direction.

What's actually happening here?

Our optic nerves are linked to both sides of our brain.

But only one side of our brain can feed information into our conscious mind at any given moment.

So when we are seeing her rotating in a clockwise direction, at that given moment, it is the left side of the brain that is in the dominant role.

If you are watching her rotating in an anti-clockwise direction, then that is the right side of the brain that's in the dominant role.

Now if I was to conduct this experiment in any random high street,

the vast majority of people today would swear blind that they can only see her rotating in a clockwise direction.

And anything else, any other suggestion is just outrageous because they can only see her rotating in a clockwise direction.

And that's because the vast majority of people have been programmed to operate primarily within their left brain.

And the right brain has effectively been shut down.

And that's what we are going to explore as we go through the course of the evening.

If you can't see her moving at all, there wasn't anybody that put their hand up, was there?

If you don't see her moving at all, now I've never seen this, but I am assured that it has happened.

In martial arts, the word is Tatsudin, the point of perfect balance.

And for somebody who has achieved a mental state, maybe the Dalai Lama might sort of get there, but that's about it I think.

But supposedly, if you've achieved the perfect balance between the left brain and the right brain,

then you can actually see her just stationary.

I think I've got a long, long, long way to go before that happens.

Okay, what I'm going to do is I'm going to make a couple of observations.

But before I do that, I want to just get a straw poll here.

How many people, can I just have the hands up for all the males in the room under the age of 35?

Oh, a bit too many.

Okay, I'm going to make a couple of statements here.

And let me tell you that for the male under the age of 35, it is possible, it is possible,

that as I make these statements, you may feel a welling up of anger and frustration.

And you might want to jump up and say, that's bollocks.

And I know this happened because it happened in Australia.

Where's Terry? Were you in that presentation?

You weren't in that one? Okay.

Actually, it was another speaker as well.

But if you do feel, as I make this statement, as I read out this statement,

if you feel this anger welling up in you, don't worry about it,

because I will explain why you're feeling that way.

Here's the first statement.

Your left hemisphere of your brain is a hormonally retarded,

perceptually limited and cognitively impaired version of your right hemisphere.

Well, it gets better.

Your left hemisphere is perceptually dominant.

It defines who you are and it decides who you think you are.

The left hemisphere.

We tend to refer to the brain.

But increasingly, within neuroscience, there is a recognition.

Well, in fact, neuroscience, to be honest,

neuroscience is effectively dividing into two camps right now.

There's the neuroscientists who are the materialists.

And these are the neuroscientists, the humanists, if you like,

who believe that everything, everything can be explained

by reductionist Newtonian science.

And that there is absolutely no experience,

whilst we are in physical form on this mortal coil,

there is actually no experience that cannot be explained.

Whereas the non-materialists are starting to say,

well, actually, there's a hell of a lot that we can't explain.

And what tends to happen is the materialist neuroscientists

put a lot of time and effort into trying to demonize and marginalize

and dismiss the research of the non-materialists,

whilst the non-materialists don't waste their time responding.

And so within the non-materialist neuroscience camp,

there is the increasing recognition that actually to refer to the brain is wrong.

It's a misnomer.

Because although we have an organ within the cranial cavity,

it's actually two organs, the left brain and the right brain,

divided by the corpus callosum.

And the increasing recognition is that these two sides of the brain

perform very, very different functions.

And what I'm going to suggest to you is that those who think

they're the rightful rulers of the planet have actually known this for a long, long time.

And so they've made a tremendous effort, a brilliant effort,

to keep people locked in to the left brain,

the seat of the ego.

And a lot of research, the reason I said about the under 35s,

a lot of research has shown that because of all the programming that takes place,

for a lot of the male population,

it's only when they get to about the age of 35

that they actually start to move away from the focus on the self

and start to recognize that maybe there's other people

and maybe they can enjoy life more if they open up to a more open relationship with other people.

But up until that point, and there's no fault of their own,

because it's part of the programming,

they focus very much on the self.