Paul Ekman

Tool 4 is the inner realm and outer realm matrix, the bread, the body, the child.

Tool 5 is trigger experience reaction, which comes out of a collaboration in 2003. between the Dalai Lama and Paul Ekman, the American psychologist, the late, a great American psychologist who pioneered the study of facial expressions and emotion.

Between the experience and the reaction, there's a gap.

And in that gap is our freedom.

Yeah.

So, well, going back to the 1960s, there was a researcher, Paul Ekman, who studied this in detail.

He went to different cultures.

And his claim was that there are six basic emotions which are expressed and also understood in similar ways across all those different cultures.

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Dr. Paul, they're Dr. Paul Ekman in a machine.

Basically.

Yeah.

Uh, obviously could do a misread on that stuff.

I, and I don't know exactly, uh, what ...

That's a great question, how, uh, what's the extent of the technology? Because Paul Ekman had it down to the muscle, and he's documented all this in his research, so it's pretty accurate on-

Yeah

Okay.

So there are actually, Dr. Paul Ekman, he's a researcher, actually the show Lie to Me is based on him.

I love that show.

Yes, so do I.

Are these facial expressions you're going to give, and we have to tell what you're thinking? Yes.

Okay.

So there are actually, Dr. Paul Ekman, he's a researcher.

Actually, the show Lie to Me is based on him.

So here's an example.

This is from data collected by Paul Ekman showing different wavelengths of light to people.

You show them a pair or patches of light.

They give you a rating of how similar they are.

Yeah, there's some anecdotal research on this.

This guy named Paul Ekman did the research, and they're called microexpressions.

So a lot of it is like you'll see this expression of contempt, which is the only asymmetrical facial expression that's real.

So like when one side of the mouth goes up, oh, hey, man.

For example, they go down a little bit.

Paul Ekman, who's the great grand master of, was the great grand master of facial expressions-

We know this.

He had a partner, and they were documenting every single facial-