You ran away.
Marilyn didn't tell me that you were there.
I just happened to go over and see Peter.
Do I have to go back?
Where to, darling?
To the place.
To the home?
No.
Not unless you want to.
I'd like you to stay here with me.
Would you stay here with me?
That's been a great night, eh?
Oh yeah, great for business, I reckon.
I think you've been doing a real good job.
Hey, listen, Peter.
You're going to the biggest bike race.
Oh, what about it?
Well, it's pretty silly, isn't it?
Well, what do you say we call it off, eh?
Yes, yes, we will call it off.
You two are pretty pleased with yourselves?
Marilyn and I have just decided to call the bike race off.
I knew you'd turn chicken when it came to the brunch.
Well, that's women for you, mate.
I'm not going to. Will you? This is how the whole damn thing started.
You haven't got the brains to know she's letting you off the hook.
Letting me off?
Oh, listen to it.
Look, the day Marilyn can beat me in a race, I will walk back with the foot.
You've been childish.
No, no, no, wait a minute.
I think it's just about time we got this whole thing sorted out.
What, you still reckon you can win?
I'm so sure I'll bet on it.
Oh, yes, such as?
Well, if you win, you get my bike.
All right, Nettie, if you win, you get my car.
Oh, come on, that's ridiculous.
No, no, Rob, it won't be a race.
It's a walkover.
Oh, listen to him.
Mate, all I can say is, may the best man win.
Oh, Jesus.
Oh, shit.
Tally-ho.
Oh, I see.
What have you got down there?
I'll give you two guesses.
I only need one.
Street's Cornetto, now with blue-riven ice cream.
Mmm.
Super crunchy cone,
crunchy nuts and chopped topping.
Street's blue-riven cornetto.
It has simply got to be the best ice cream cone in town.
Good show, Street's.
My name's Brenda.
We make it great from the Sunshine State.
We've made the state the greatest in the land.
My heart worked together at its hand.
And everything we've done
Was fashioned in the sun
To promise you a better future.
Everything we've done
Was fashioned in the sun
To promise you a better future.
Fresh.
Clean.
The fresh, clean flavor of P.K. chewing gum
Lasts a long, long, long time.
P.K. chewing gum
This is the Wimbledon Tennis Museum.
And it must be the only museum to honor a drink.
Robinson's Lemon Barley.
It's here because it's the drink invented for Wimbledon 40 years ago.
And it's still used out there.
Now Robinson's Lemon Barley is in Australia.
Just right for thirsty days back home.
Robinson's Lemon Barley.
Good and refreshing.
The Wimbledon Tennis Museum.
Mysteries of the Mind.
A vision next.
Oh's Wide Wide World Followed tonight at 8.30 with Prisoner.
It's only A journey To our restless knees
Let our hearts run free
Tomorrow is the September equinox, a very significant date for witches.
And here in Brisbane there are at least 10 covens of witches operating.
Tomorrow night on The Sargent Report on Channel 0, Jim Lee investigates
and we'll show you an initiation ceremony we filmed in one of Brisbane's inner suburbs.
And also tomorrow night, because of the incredible response we had to our interview
with one of the world's leading authorities on vitamin E, we'll talk some more with Dr Wilfred Schuette.
That's The Sargent Report, tomorrow night at 6.30 here on Channel 0.
They seem to be a family that had everything.
Because nobody can give themselves away bit by bit like that.
The truth is I don't love Mother. I hate her.
I said okay. Mother, let go.
Then why did it all go haywire?
A story of carelessness and guilt.
Thursday at 8.30, Lee Remick, Jason Robards, Linda Gray from Dallas and Deborah Raffin.
Oh, boy. I wish I was five years old again.
Part 1 of Haywire, Thursday, 8.30.
The big shows are on the big hold.
Wednesday night means comedy, 7.30, Wayne Rogers and Lynn Redgrave and house calls.
Followed at 8 with the hilarious Nobody's Perfect with Ron Moody and Cassie Yates.
That's Wednesdays right here.
The following program is brought to you by Qantas, the world's only all 747 airline.
Good evening and welcome to Oh's Wide Wide World.
Tonight we present a stimulating and enlightening look at the mysteries of the mind.
Now the brain is more complex than the most advanced computer.
We know what we are, but how do we know?
This is a film about the most powerful force on earth, the human mind.
To explore it is to embark on an endless journey, awesome in dimension and complexity.
What we're dealing with is the mind and what the mind is able to accomplish.
Well, in today's demonstration we're only going to be dealing with one small facet of how it can ward off pain.
The trappings of show business tend to override the performer's true accomplishment.
Although his act may not be as dangerous as it appears, it is more than just a thrilling diversion.
Vernon Craig, stage name Comar, has developed with his mind an extraordinary ability to cope with pain.
Oh, do I show the camera my back?
Where is the mind and where is it located?
Can it be the three pounds of tissue within our skulls whose ceaseless activity consumes up to one fourth of our oxygen intake?
How can billions of invisible self-charging batteries be responsible for the glories of mankind's creativity?
To mystics, the mind is the universe. The universe is the mind.
To science, mind and brain are one.
Either way, it is a matter of wonder and mystery, and a paradox, too, that the most powerful force on earth lacks the power to understand itself.
Two blokes from Brisbane al, tasting the wine.
Coming out tasting the wine
Two perp kids in Hollywood
Who can't believe their eyes
A Sydney man in Singapore
Takes time out to unwind
A Melbourne taxi driver
Whose mum just won't stop crying
And mum and dad from Adelaide
Think Fiji suits them fine
And in Japan two robot ladies
Find that tea takes time
There they are these two on Qantas
You're one of them, yes you
The all Australian owners
Of the flying kangaroo
Stretch your wings
There they are these two on Qantas
You're one of them, yes you
The all Australian owners
Of the flying kangaroo
Stretch your wings
We're happy little Vegemites
As bright as bright can be
We all enjoy our Vegemite
For breakfast, lunch and tea
Our mummies say we're growing stronger
Every single week
Today more than ever
Vegemite helps
Vegemite yeast extract
With all the goodness of those
Essential B group vitamins
Has put a rose in every tree
We stand behind the product we sell
While doing all this
And instantaneously registering
The result the brain makes each
Individual emotionally aware
Of performing before an audience
And sharing the experience
With other players
And at the same time
Each brain keeps the body erect
Monitors the environment
And regulates all systems
That keep us alive and conscious
The soloist has memorized
His entire part
At dizzying speed his brain
Must reach into memory
For more than 6,000 notes
To recall and perform each
In sequence with appropriate
Tonal and dynamic colorations
Behold a human brain
Its appearance tells us
Nothing of its functions
Nothing about the individual
Whose personality it once contained
Nowhere in this wrinkled
Jelly-like mass is there even
A clue to race, nationality
Or religion
It could be the brain of a
Genius or a cretin
A killer or a saint
Peeling away one micro thin slice
After another from top to bottom
Reveals intricate and beautiful
Structures and tells a scientist
That no two brains are identical
Within the brain are stored
Memories of a lifetime
Are they in one place
Or do they permeate
The entire organ
What happens when we
Learn new things
Logic tells us that physical
Changes must take place
But what are they
How do they happen and where
No one knows
New techniques bring to life
The many complex structures
Within the brain
Photographs of several thousand
Micro thin slices can be traced
And the outlines transferred
To a computer enabling us to
Visualize brain structures as
They have never been seen before
In the crumpled top layer of
The brain the cortex lie the
Qualities that separate man from
All other creatures
A mere one eighth of an inch
Thick it would if stretched out
Flat cover an area two feet
Wide and three feet long
At the base of the brain
Structures that keep us awake
And alive regulating breathing
Heart beat maintaining
Equilibrium and muscle tone
Every second one hundred
Million separate messages reach
The brain from our senses
Somehow we screen out the
Meaningless and react to the
Important signals
While our brain is regulating
All our body's functions
We may love hate think create
Reminisce plan ahead
Through the brain we know what
We are we know we're alive
But how do we know
That's the mystery that plagues
Us still
The last few decades have seen
Enormous progress in mapping the
Brain and learning how it
Functions with powerful tools
Like computers and electron
Microscopes science has compiled
Vast amounts of data but each
New gateway opens to a new
Horizon the brain remains the
Ultimate frontier
Lost in the reaches of
Evolutionary time they're formed
On this planet clusters of
Molecules that would become
The most complex clump of matter
In the known universe the human
Brain reflecting this heritage
We have in effect three brains
In one at the base lies the most
Primitive part of our brain much
Like the brain of the reptile a
Creature of limited behaviors
Capable of little beyond the
Preservation of life surrounding
The reptilian brain the old
Mammalian brain or limbic system
Developed in the earliest mammals
One hundred and fifty thousand
Years ago today in humans it is
The center of our emotions and
Sexual drives crowning them both
The neocortex or new mammalian
Brain here resides speech and
Abstract thought hallmarks of
Homo sapiens a creature
Endlessly vexed by the challenge
Of trying to understand its own
Nature there are many
Species of the brain that are
Able to understand the
Challenge of trying to understand its own nature there is a view called the mind body dualism which says that the mind is something separate from the body not a part of it not explicable in terms of the atoms and molecules that make us up in my view there is not a smidgen of evidence for such a position a very plausible position i think is that what we call mind is the results of the
Anatomy and physiology of the brain and nothing more that our thoughts feelings sensations sense of consciousness emotions are all due to the chemical and electrical connections inside the brain
Music
Behold a human brain what wonders lie within just the thin wrinkled outer layer the cortex whole some 50 billion neurons tiny nerve cells each connected to as many as 100,000 others
In only one cubic inch 100 million nerve cells connected by 10,000 miles of fibers if all the nerve cells and fibers in one human brain were stretched end to end they would reach at least to the moon and back
Each neuron is like a living factory that produces and distributes its own special kind of chemicals yet these cells are so small and densely packed together that the area of brain represented in this artist's recreation is smaller than a single grain of sand
At each point of contact between neurons it's called a synapse an electrical signal triggers a minute squirt of chemical a neurotransmitter from one cell to another computing a myriad of such incoming signals the receiving cell must instantly decide whether or not to fire its own signal to other neurons
About two dozen different neurotransmitters are known and probably many more remain to be discovered these vital chemical messengers exist in such small amounts that trying to find one in brain tissue is said to be like trying to find a pinch of salt dissolved in a swimming pool
If it could be seen brain cell action might look like random flickering of countless stars in an endless universe seemingly an infinite amount of information and variety of behaviors in an unlikely looking package
I think it's important to realize how much information is packed in the brain. It's a vast amount of information that everybody carries around his head. The number of connections between neurons and other neurons is about 10 trillion.
That is the equivalent of the amount of information in 10 billion pages of the Encyclopedia Britannica and that's an awful lot of pages. I don't think that that amount of information for each individual's brain is going to be extracted by examining somebody's brain in the near future.
The intricacy of the architecture of the brain I think speaks eloquently about the value and uniqueness of each individual human being.
This year the average family will spend $3,496.13 on groceries. This year the family that shops at a Jack the Slasher food barn will spend only $3,083.25 on groceries.
Or to put it another way the family that shops at a Jack the Slasher food barn will save $412.88. Need we say more?
The big scissors are out at Curtin Wonderland and the prices are in for the chop. Curtin Wonderland have cut the price of these planes and acrylics in half. Now only $4 a meter.
These superb polyester blend continuous were $10 a meter, now $6.95. And these continuous poly cotton prints now $6.95. And off goes $3 on this superb continuous. And look at this one.
The plane Shantung now half price of $3. The big scissors are out now at Curtin Wonderland. It's the only place to go.
Introducing new Holden ute, fan and one tonner. We'll show you how tough they are.
With a full length box section chassis.
Double steel walls.
To protect the outside from what's inside.
The new 3.3 liter engine delivers up to 15% better economy and improved performance.
The new Holden workforce at your Holden dealer now.
Lots of different kinds of kids like lots of different kinds of beans.
Hines has all the different kinds, different kinds for different kids.
Baked beans in ham sauce, in tomato sauce, in barbecue sauce. Lots of kids like them an awful lot, mom. So go on, give them heaps.
Behold a human brain. It is only about a hundred years ago that we became aware of the separate functions of the two hemispheres.
Language is primarily the function of the left side, which emphasizes the mathematical, logical, analytic.
The right brain is our main source of concepts of form and space, emphasizing the whole picture.
A rare opportunity for research is provided by persons whose two hemispheres have been surgically disconnected.
The procedure has been used as a treatment for severe epilepsy.
No problem with blinking now because you have a contact lens on your eye.
I'm going to put this little tube on.
While her left eye is covered, information from the right eye reaches both hemispheres through pathways not affected by the surgery.
The woman has little difficulty naming pictures in the book.
Point to the right hand.
A woman holding a baby.
A kid putting up blocks or something.
And a woman in a brush doing something, drinking coffee.
And this is some kid wrestling.
Now, I'm going to move this away for a second.
We're going to cover your whole...
Oh, now I'm seeing that.
Now a special lens attachment will cut off all visual information to her left brain, the side normally in charge of verbal, linguistic responses.
What you have to do now is point to four pictures with your left hand.
One, two, three, four.
Now tell me what you see in this picture right here.
You get a picture only to the left visual half field so it goes only to the right hemisphere.
What do you see now?
Can you point to the corn?
The what, Aaron?
Point to the corn.
Down here.
Very good.
Okay.
Can you point to something that has...
Can you point to the pot?
Is that a pot?
No.
Now where is the pot?
Up here.
Very good.
What do you see in this picture here?
That's one I can't figure out.
What is it?
Is it good or bad?
It's good.
Do you play with it or do you eat it?
You eat it.
Do you eat it for dessert or for the first course?
Yeah, dessert.
Dessert.
What is it?
Pie.
No, you're doing fine.
I want to see your vocabulary in the right side of the brain.
So I'm going to say a word and I want you to point to the correct picture, okay?
Okay.
Can you point to the car?
Very good.
Point to the four pictures.
One, two, three, four.
Can you tell me what's in this picture here?
Give me a hand.
What is it?
Give me a hand.
Okay, how about point to the four pictures again?
Okay.
One, two, three, four.
Can you point to the cow?
That's it.
Very good.
She knows what it is but cannot say the word.
Recent studies show that the right brain does have some language ability.
Both hemispheres can do most things, Zydel says, but they are genetically programmed
to assume different roles early in life.
Zydel's findings raise hopes that those suffering left brain damage may regain meaningful ability
to use language by making use of the long-ignored verbal abilities of the right hemisphere.
So it's harder for you to read the words than to hear them.
Right, definitely.
Securely locked within the skull, the brain is the most physically inaccessible of all
our organs, but it is slowly yielding its secrets to new technology.
A computer process developed in Scandinavia allows for the first time graphic depiction
of brain activity during behavior in the living cerebral cortex.
Shades of red represent increased blood flow, which accompany specific actions.
Here the brain is listening to music.
Clenching a fist.
Reading silently.
Hand movement.
Direct views of changing blood flow directly related to behavior.
Sleep.
Although it takes up one-third of our lives, sleep was long in the poet's realm, not the scientists'.
Oh gentle sleep, nature's soft nurse, wrote Shakespeare.
No longer is sleep regarded as devoid of mental activity.
In infant and adult, during part of every normal night's sleep, the brain is as active as in the waking state.
We're most active during REM sleep, the time when we usually dream and our eyes move rapidly beneath closed lids.
Thus the name REM for rapid eye movements.
At a scientific exhibit, the dreaming subject's active brain waves are projected as vertical green laser beams,
her eye movements by a dancing blue laser.
A night's sleep, speeded up by the camera 120 times.
For most healthy people, sleep fits a regular pattern.
First, a period of light sleep, followed by deeper sleep, slower brain waves and slower rhythmic breathing.
Then at roughly 90-minute intervals, about four to six times a night, we dream.
Our brain waves become more active.
Eyes dart around in rapid jerky movements.
Heartbeat and breathing become irregular.
Our skeletal muscles become virtually paralyzed.
The brain's way of avoiding injury by preventing the body from carrying out the actions of our dreams.
Both sexes in REM sleep display genital erection, a phenomenon unrelated to dream content.
Here, both sleepers, motionless, are probably dreaming.
From the beginnings of civilization to Freudian psychoanalysis,
mankind has been tantalized by the content of dreams,
which were often seen as mystical or supernatural events, or portents of the future.
Today, sleep researchers see dreams as a function of brain physiology,
the result of actions by neurons and circuits and chemical messengers.
But why we dream remains a mystery.
Just about everyone likes sorbent because it's so nice and soft.
Sorbent's also very strong.
Softness and strength make sorbent rather special.
Sorbent is also longer than just about every other toilet roll.
Soft, strong, and very, very long.
Sorbent.
Gringo, your last request.
My Wilkinson sword.
No sword.
Profile.
Pivoting head razor.
Is good.
It's the best of British engineering.
Is smooth.
The smoothest.
The freshest.
And the closest.
He's gonna get even a little closer and less.
Wilkinson sword profile.
The best of British to you.
We make it great in the Sunshine State.
We made the state the greatest in the land.
Tomorrow is the September equinox, a very significant date for witches.
And here in Brisbane there are at least ten covens of witches operating.
Tomorrow night on The Sargent Report on Channel O, Jim Lee investigates and we'll show you an initiation ceremony we filmed in one of Brisbane's inner suburbs.
And also tomorrow night, because of the incredible response we had to our interview with one of the world's leading authorities on vitamin E, we'll talk some more with Dr. Wilfred Schuett.
That's The Sargent Report tomorrow night at 6.30 here on Channel O.
The notion that East and West shall never meet is today merely poetic anachronism.
Ancient practices and beliefs of the mystic East wield growing influence in the practical scientific West.
Several Eastern disciplines tend to intertwine consciousness and body and see meditation as a way of assuring stability and health.
Westerners tended to scoff until electrical machines demonstrated that Zen monks and others were indeed capable of altering their brain waves and controlling certain bodily functions in ways most of us had thought were impossible.
Now, some in Western medicine are beginning to look seriously at meditation for relief or prevention of various stress-related ailments like ulcers, hypertension, and certain forms of heart trouble.
Not until the 1970s was Chinese acupuncture taken seriously by the West.
As treatment for illness, acupuncture has been practiced in China for more than 2,000 years.
Since 1958, it has been used experimentally as a replacement for some medical anesthesia in surgery.
In a Beijing hospital, surgery for removal of an ovarian tumor employs a local anesthetic and seven needles inserted in face and forehead to a depth of one centimeter.
From time to time, the needles will transmit mild electrical stimulation.
Surgery begins 20 minutes after the needles are in place.
The patient is fully conscious throughout the procedure.
She says she feels no pain, although her body is not numb.
Highly dramatic when it works, surgical use of acupuncture is in the early stages of experimentation.
It can be used with only a small percentage of surgery patients and does not offer complete relief from pain.
A report by an American medical group calls it a significant human biological phenomenon of unknown mechanisms.
Although some skeptics claim that acupuncture in China is merely a kind of cultural conditioning, a form of self-hypnosis,
recent discoveries link acupuncture to the brain's own morphine-like painkillers, the endorphins, and to other neurotransmitters.
For 2,000 years, the Chinese have unknowingly made use of brain chemicals that were not even discovered until 1975.
Performed by an all-woman team, the operation, filmed by a Japanese television crew, takes an hour and 10 minutes.
The painkilling effect of the acupuncture needles will last for several hours after they are removed.
The patient gives every indication of wanting to get off the table and walk away,
and she will have less postoperative pain than similar cases using general anesthesia.
It is somewhat astounding to realize the scope of our own ignorance in this field.
A lot of us think that Chinese medicine and other types of folk medicine are very primitive,
but if you look into it, you find that this is not the case at all.
In a book called The Nei Ching Si Wen, which is a compilation of writings dated at least 5,000 years ago,
the Chinese describe in exquisite detail vaccination against smallpox.
They would take the pox off an infected person, grind it up into a powder,
and blow it through a tiny tube into the nostrils of anyone who would come into contact with the patient.
Smallpox was virtually unknown in ancient China, and I don't have to tell you what it did to Western civilization.
In the same book, they describe circulation of blood in the body thousands of years before Sir William Harvey.
The Chinese concept of the human body is very different from the Western medical concept,
because in Western medicine, our work is based on anatomy and physiology.
The Chinese worshiped their ancestors, so they weren't permitted to do any gross dissection.
What they knew of anatomy and physiology came from extrapolation from animals.
The Chinese believe that the entire body is represented by specific points on the ear, more than 200 in all.
Psychologist Bresler finds these points display increased electrical conductivity
when there is some injury or illness involving the area of the body to which they correspond.
Running an electric probe over the ear, he says, provides an effective technique for diagnosis.
There was a little bit of activity in the mouth area, which can occur from something as simple as biting your tongue,
biting your cheek, having a little cavity or something like that.
I've got to see the dentist next week for a tooth on the left side.
I don't see any really noticeable musculoskeletal problems or aches or pains or sprains or anything like that.
That point right there, is that low tender?
It's still quite a mysterious phenomenon in terms of exactly how it works,
but in our own research studies we find that at about 75 to 80 percent accuracy,
we are able to diagnose areas of discomfort in the body simply by examining the electrical activity of the ear.
Here's your shoulder and upper spine.
Okay, so now there's an active point.
And all that really tells me is I have it, most people have it.
You store a lot of tension in your upper back and in your shoulders.
There are really no active points on your left leg, left foot, knee, okay, thigh area.
But in your left hand there are, and your hand is pretty clear from your wrist.
There's a little bit of activity, but of course a lot of activity in the elbow area.
So if I'm forced to guess just for the money, okay, it will have to be on your left hand or arms.
It was 30 years ago when I broke my left wrist when I was like 70 years old.
Your ear doesn't forget.
I think a greater understanding of the ways that the mind influences the body is going to have a revolutionary impact on the way that we practice medicine.
That means having an understanding of the mind, the body, the spirit, the emotions, the motivations,
an understanding of the whole person.
And it's from this point of view that some of the mind-oriented therapies are going to be more and more integrated into our health care system,
and I think in a very revolutionary and ultimately beneficial way.
What is the message from your pain?
What is the message?
Some may call it faith healing or mysticism, but clinics like Brezler's offer growing evidence of the mind's ability to relieve chronic pain.
It must be psychosomatic, meaning imaginary.
Well, I want to dispel that.
We're not talking about it being imaginary.
You have real pain.
There's no question that everyone in here has real pain, but what we are saying is it involves all of you.
It involves your mind.
It involves your body, your spirit.
Imagine yourself or some part of yourself where you want healing to occur.
Imagine it as well and whole.
See yourself just as you want to be.
See yourself as well and healed.
Use your imagination.
This is your opportunity to see yourself just as you want to be.
And as you get this picture of yourself as healthy, repeat to yourself every day in every way,
I will feel better and better.
All right, Neil, if you'll put your hand on this cradle now,
in a little while I'm going to drop your hand in the water,
then every five seconds I'll ask you for a report of pain and you reply with one of those numbers.
Although used in a variety of clinical and experimental situations for more than a century,
hypnosis remains a mystery.
We know it works, but we do not know how it works.
In a demonstration by Dr. Ernest Hilgard of Stanford University,
a subject's arm is placed in circulating ice water just above the freezing point.
Report? About 12.
Report?
13.
It's pretty cold, isn't it?
Yeah.
A little while for it to recover here.
Get some blood back in there.
Yeah, just exercise a little bit. That's it.
How did it really feel?
Well, at first it grabbed me. It was like a shock.
Then it just continued like someone was pounding needles into me continuously all the way up.
I was about 10. I really wanted to take my hand out. I was in pain.
All right. Just close your eyes now and relax.
You'll gradually drift into hypnosis as I count one.
Drifting.
What we're looking at now is a normal hypnosis procedure,
except that Neil is experienced and in fact he could hypnotize himself.
The most prominent feature about the person who can become hypnotized
is that they can become immersed in fantasy and imagination
so that in some sense hypnosis is kind of believed in imagination.
Nine and ten. That's fine.
I want this arm to become completely numb.
As I stroke it, it will become completely numb
so that a little later you'll feel no pain at all. Is it numb now?
Yes.
Okay. Now I'm going to ask you to report on the same scale you did before.
If you feel no pain, you'll say zero.
If you should happen to feel a little pain, you can begin to count.
But I think you'll feel no pain at all in that arm.
Report.
Zero.
Report.
Zero.
Pain relief by hypnosis does not seem to involve an increase
of the brain's natural pain-killing endorphins.
The actual mechanism remains unknown.
Report.
Zero.
Report.
Zero.
Report.
Zero.
Okay. That's fine.
I've lifted your hand out of the water now.
I'm going to draw it as you did before.
Now I'm going to have you come out of hypnosis.
Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one.
Zero. Wide awake.
Okay. How was it?
Fine with me. I really didn't feel anything.
You could have kept it in longer.
I could have kept it as long as you wanted.
Since time began, man has dug for precious metals.
Even humble iron gave its name to an age in our history.
And the industrial revolution would not have happened without coal.
The mining of every mineral and metal has become essential to our daily way of life.
And about 80,000 Australians dig and drill.
So our cars, our homes, boats and barbecues are not just figments of our imagination.
But mining needs more than manpower.
It needs petrol, diesel and lubricants for the trucks, pumps, trains, excavators and 101 other machines.
And then to convert the ore into all the things we use every day, even more oil is needed.
Oil is the link between the miners and us, between the iron ore in the ground and the steel body on your car.
Mining our miners supplied with fuel is a big job and ESSO's role is vital.
So this year alone they're spending nearly $200 million on oil exploration and development.
We can't do without oil or afford to waste it.
It's vital for Australia now and vital for our kids later.
However cool it may feel, water doesn't screen out the sun's rays that damage your skin,
which is why Roche of Switzerland created Aquason.
Aquason is water resistant and contains guanine to help you tan without burning and two vital moisturisers.
So now you can tan before, during and after you swim.
Aquason from your chemist, because you shouldn't risk your skin to get a great tan.
Let your Levi's do the talking, let your Levi's say.
The little things the words don't get through, let your Levi's play.
Body games, let your Levi's play.
Body games, no need to make a noise, no need to jump and shout.
Let your Levi's do the talking, send them the message out.
Body games, let your Levi's play.
Body games, let your Levi's do the talking.
The taste of Kraft cheese.
Please.
Quality you know and trust.
That's right.
And the convenience of your favourite cheeses already sliced for you.
Clever Kraft.
Clever you.
Look at all the delicious ways you've thought of to use Kraft cheese slices.
I wouldn't use any other.
Kraft know their cheese.
And I know my Kraft.
Any way you slice it, nobody knows cheese like Kraft.
I'm about to help you to become as attentive and alert as you can.
That will help you gradually to enter a state of alert hypnosis.
It feels good to notice the tenseness in your muscles as you hold the handlebars.
And to sense the strength in your legs as you pedal.
Your body will feel vibrant and ready for action and attention as you continue to listen to my words.
Just listen and become more wide awake, more aware, more alert.
Whatever you feel is happening, just let it happen.
Hypnosis is usually associated with a sleep-like state.
Indeed the very word comes from hypnos, the Greek god of sleep.
But hypnosis is also possible during an active alert state.
After a few minutes, the subject is completely hypnotized and responds readily to the experimenter's suggestions as he hands her an ordinary ballpoint pen.
Here is a heating element that is quite cool.
Will you just take hold of this please?
No, it's not quite cool.
All right, now I've turned on the current.
It's going to warm up very gradually.
I want you to decide when you first detect warmth. As soon as you decide it feels warm, just tell me.
All right, it is warm. It's already warm. Well, that's fine.
Now I'm going to let the element get really hot, too hot for anyone to hold.
But only hold to it as long as it doesn't bother you.
And then let it go. Don't let it hurt you by getting too hot.
It's getting pretty hot now when it gets less.
All right, that was pretty hot. I don't blame you for dropping it.
It's away now and your hand is quite normal. Feel just as it did before I gave you the heating element.
Your hand's all right, isn't it? You didn't let it get burned, but that's fine.
All right, there'll be no after effects.
Hillgard sees a relationship between alert hypnosis and the state athletes called second wind.
When an athlete take a distance run or has second wind, he commonly doesn't feel his legs at all.
They just seem to be somebody else's legs running.
This is very much like the hypnotic experience on the bicycle.
There are people who expect this to happen.
If they expect it to happen at that point, that's similar to self-hypnosis.
There is no physiology of second wind.
It's apparently a subjective thing, but some of the really most successful runners say they cultivate this.
When they feel they're just so exhausted, they keep right on going.
Presently, they get into some kind of state where they no longer feel exhausted.
They keep right on running, and that's their second wind.
Some of the most dramatic demonstrations of mind-controlling body come from India,
where for centuries yogis and others have performed feats that Westerners simply refuse to believe.
But the most important thing is that they are able to do it.
They are able to do it.
Some yogis and others have performed feats that Westerners simply refuse to believe,
that is until modern technology was brought in.
For example, a yogi can be buried alive, locked in an airtight box.
Upon entry, his vital functions and brain waves on a polygraph are active.
The yogi will remain in the box for hours and survive without ill effects,
long after the oxygen supply normally would have been exhausted.
He can do it by placing himself in a meditative state that lowers his heart rate,
respiration, blood pressure, temperature, and other functions of the autonomic nervous system,
functions that until recently Western medicine thought could not be consciously controlled.
September 12, 1971.
I was traveling in a van westward and it overturned on the highway.
In the accident, my neck was broken.
I went to Goldwater Hospital and was there for almost six years.
Totally paralyzed from the neck down, 29-year-old Sue Strong lived for years in a horizontal position.
If she were placed upright, blood would rush to her feet and she would faint.
While still hospitalized, she entered a biofeedback program,
hoping to learn voluntary control over her blood pressure.
The average person is not aware of whether his blood pressure is increasing or decreasing.
We wire the subject up in such a way that when his blood pressure goes up, it causes a tone to sound.
And when the blood pressure falls, the tones stop.
You can't tell the person exactly what to do.
You can give him some hints, but essentially he has to practice, succeed, and fail, and finally he develops a skill.
Okay Sue, just keep maintaining your pressure.
You know your legs are down. So far you're doing very well.
Good. Good.
How she raises her blood pressure is not known.
But with paralysis ruling out muscular action, it must somehow come from the brain.
You can bring it up just a little more than that.
Good, good. 86. Very nice. Very nice.
If one could imagine one's brain as being a sponge and then having it squeezed
and feeling the feeling of that squeezing, that's the sensation that I go for when I try to raise my pressure.
And as it turns out, when I aim for that feeling, my pressure does go up.
Good. Good. Very nice. Okay, rest. 110. Well done. Now rest. Let your blood pressure do its own thing.
When you've been in a hospital for six, seven years and suddenly to find yourself outside of a hospital,
living in an apartment, going to the supermarket, it doesn't sound particularly thrilling to someone that does it every day.
And it's not always all that thrilling to me either, but I could never have done any of that before.
When I first got enough courage and self-confidence to apply the things I had learned in the biofeedback experiments,
I celebrated by going to a rock concert.
And it was such a thrill to be out in the world in a crowd of people and out of a hospital.
And I'm not sure that I could say anything more than it was so euphoric,
perhaps like being drunk, though I've never been drunk in my life.
And I've just gone after experiences like that, I guess because it made such an impression on me the first time.
Also featuring George Wyre at the orchestra, ladies and gentlemen, Andy Williams.
On a wonderful day like today, I defy any cloud to appear in the sky, dare any raindrop to pop in my eye.
On a wonderful day like today, on a wonderful evening like this, when the moon is as big as a silver balloon,
even the birdies are singing in tune on a wonderful evening like this.
On an evening like this, I could kiss everybody, I'm so full of love and goodwill.
Let me say furthermore, I adore everybody, coming down the pleasure's mine and I will pay the bill.
May I take this occasion to say that the whole human race should get down on its knees,
show that we're grateful for moments like these on a wonderful day like today.
I defy any cloud to appear in the sky, dare any raindrop to pop in my eye.
On a wonderful day like today, on an evening like this, I could kiss everybody, I'm so full of love and goodwill.
Let me say furthermore, I adore everybody, coming down the pleasure's mine and I will pay the bill.
May I take this occasion to say that the whole human race should get down on its knees,
show that we're grateful for moments like these on a wonderful day, on a wonderful day like today.