- If you can turn your thoughts into actions,
that is supreme alchemy.
Here's Planet Asia and Talib Kweli talking
about exactly that.
Biggie— I always tell people the song "Juicy",
that's a alchemist song.
- That's right. - Because Biggie didn't have
none of that when he was writing those lyrics.
- That's right,
he spoke truth to power. - He spoke that
into existence. - Right, manifesting.
- Manifestation.
- You feel what I'm saying?
And that's what supreme alchemy is and that's what,
you know, for those who want to get knowledge of self
and come build with the gods, this is what
we're dealing with.
We're dealing with bringing things to life,
not hallucinating and looking at stargazing,
- Supreme alchemy exists, it's possible.
In fact, I've seen it over and over again.
We're born into a world that we don't feel
like we can affect, but we can.
Life can either be a movie that washes over us
or it can be something we actively participate in.
I went to a spoon bending party once.
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It was called a PK party for psychokinesis.
The entire idea was that you'd go with 50
or 100 other people into a big room, they hand out spoons,
metal spoons, spoons that are kind of hard to bend.
But they instruct you very directly.
Look at the spoon, state your intention.
I'm going to bend the spoon.
Bend, bend, bend.
But then in-between these moments
you would test the spoon.
You would physically take the spoon in your hands,
you would see if the spoon was ready to bend
at that moment and this would happen over and over again.
You would stare at the spoon all together,
50, 100 people all together shouting,
"Bend, bend, bend."
All the while, people were also testing the spoon
with their hands.
If you're wondering, yes, I was able to bend the spoon
because I used my hands.
That was kind of the point and or the funny joke
of this whole party.
Yes, they were going to teach you to bend a spoon
with your mind, but what they didn't mention
was that you use your hands too.
And that is the lesson.
The remarkable thing about a party like that
is only half of the people on average really
end up bending the spoon, and that mirrors
what I see in society.
A lot of people have the idea in their mind.
I want to use my mind to bend the spoon,
but when it comes time to actually do it,
they think that there's magic.
Unfortunately, there's no magic.
There's only our hands.
There's only the application of force.
There is only intention.
There's only us doing it.
Nobody's coming for us.
There's no one coming to save us.
Life is kind of like this all the time.
We have this idea that we want to manifest
in reality, but you have to take the action.
There's an interesting study that's kind of related
about luck actually.
A professor named Richard Wiseman conducted
an experiment about luckiness.
Some people in the experiment identified as lucky,
others did not.
This was the task they stood out.
Everyone gets a newspaper and they ask you,
"Please count the number of photos and images
"in this newspaper."
On page two, right there, in big letters it would say,
"You're done, there are 53 photos in this newspaper."
The lucky people spotted it right away.
The unlucky people ended up completing the task,
but they would do it the manual way.
People who are lucky were looking to be lucky.
They were seeing opportunity that other people
just did not see at all.
So luck does play a role, but luck might actually be
about your intention, about your expectation
and your awareness.
Lucky people are on the lookout for being lucky.
Those are two very powerful lessons.
You should be lucky and you should also be intentional.
If you combine these two things, yes,
you too can bend the spoon with your mind.
- There is no spoon.
- Then you'll see that it is not the spoon that bends,
it is only yourself.
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- Thanks for watching.