More American soldiers commit suicide after they return from war, than are being killed in the war. Most of the war veterans suffer from PTSD.
Steve is one of the proud American veterans who just returned from Afghanistan. He was an interrogator and very good at his job.
Now, back home, he suffers from sleepless nights and bad conscience because of all the terrible things he did during the war. He has a lot of anger and fear for the future and is struggling to be a good father for his two-year-old twins.

Brain scientist Professor Richard Davidson sets up his mind to conduct an unusual experiment: He will teach American war veterans and children meditation and yoga. Can veterans through meditation and yoga ease their pain and nervous system, find happiness and be more peaceful and get back to a life more like the one they had before the war?
By studying Buddhist monks Richard Davidson has found that it is possible to re-wire your brain through meditation. Some of the effects are that you become more altruistic, compassionate and happy. But Richard Davidson also wants to study how early in life you can start, using the same methods of meditation and yoga in an experiment with children with ADHD.

Davidson sets up his experiment and chooses the veterans for the experiment. We are following Steve, the ex-interrogator, and Rich who was a very successful leader for battalions in Iraq and Afghanistan. He feels responsible for not being able to save his friends that were killed during the war. Rich becomes more and more closed up and can't tell his wife about his memories.
Through the film, we experience what meditation does to human beings and we investigate, if we, by using other methods than taking medicine to ease our pain, can get less stressful, and happy.

We are entering a new era - a Renaissance where everything gets turned up side down. In all fields, science makes new discoveries that constantly change our world view and leave nothing the way we first assumed. Our knowledge expands and gets more complex. Constantly, new fundamental questions are raised about who we are as human beings. The more questions asked, the more obvious it is to me how many things we still don't understand. I find that very inspiring!

FREE THE MIND is the second part of my trilogy on the fundamental human questions. The first film "Mechanical love" (2007) was about robot science. Characteristic for both films is their location in the field where science meets reality and where scientists use dashes and question marks instead of dots. In "Free The Mind" the central questions are: What is a thought and how does it create a manifestation in the body? Can we make a physical change of the brain only by the power of thoughts?

My personal reason for choosing this subject was sudden panic attacks a couple of years ago. It was a very physical experience, and I felt as if the record in my mind was stuck and that it took a physical effort to get the pick up back in the groove. I found that meditation could be the push I needed, and I became interested in understanding how it was linked. It made me want to open up the skull and look into the brain and se what was really happening during meditation.

FREE THE MIND is the result of that study. The film is not an answer but the beginning of an ongoing debate on what the human being is.

Phie Ambo, May 2012

We are entering a new era – a Renaissance where everything gets turned up side down. In all fields, science makes new discoveries that constantly change our world view and leave nothing the way we first assumed. Our knowledge expands and gets more complex. Constantly, new fundamental questions are raised about who we are as human beings. The more questions asked, the more obvious it is to me how many things we still don’t understand. I find that very inspiring!

FREE THE MIND is the second part of my trilogy on the fundamental human questions. The first film “Mechanical love” (2007) was about robot science. Characteristic for both films is their location in the field where science meets reality and where scientists use dashes and question marks instead of dots. In “Free The Mind” the central questions are: What is a thought and how does it create a manifestation in the body? Can we make a physical change of the brain only by the power of thoughts?

My personal reason for choosing this subject was sudden panic attacks a couple of years ago. It was a very physical experience, and I felt as if the record in my mind was stuck and that it took a physical effort to get the pick up back in the groove. I found that meditation could be the push I needed, and I became interested in understanding how it was linked. It made me want to open up the skull and look into the brain and se what was really happening during meditation.

FREE THE MIND is the result of that study. The film is not an answer but the beginning of an ongoing debate on what the human being is.

Phie Ambo, May 2012

We are entering a new era – a Renaissance where everything gets turned up side down. In all fields, science makes new discoveries that constantly change our world view and leave nothing the way we first assumed. Our knowledge expands and gets more complex. Constantly, new fundamental questions are raised about who we are as human beings. The more questions asked, the more obvious it is to me how many things we still don’t understand. I find that very inspiring!

FREE THE MIND is the second part of my trilogy on the fundamental human questions. The first film “Mechanical love” (2007) was about robot science. Characteristic for both films is their location in the field where science meets reality and where scientists use dashes and question marks instead of dots. In “Free The Mind” the central questions are: What is a thought and how does it create a manifestation in the body? Can we make a physical change of the brain only by the power of thoughts?

My personal reason for choosing this subject was sudden panic attacks a couple of years ago. It was a very physical experience, and I felt as if the record in my mind was stuck and that it took a physical effort to get the pick up back in the groove. I found that meditation could be the push I needed, and I became interested in understanding how it was linked. It made me want to open up the skull and look into the brain and se what was really happening during meditation.

FREE THE MIND is the result of that study. The film is not an answer but the beginning of an ongoing debate on what the human being is.

Phie Ambo, May 2012

We are entering a new era – a Renaissance where everything gets turned up side down. In all fields, science makes new discoveries that constantly change our world view and leave nothing the way we first assumed. Our knowledge expands and gets more complex. Constantly, new fundamental questions are raised about who we are as human beings. The more questions asked, the more obvious it is to me how many things we still don’t understand. I find that very inspiring!

FREE THE MIND is the second part of my trilogy on the fundamental human questions. The first film “Mechanical love” (2007) was about robot science. Characteristic for both films is their location in the field where science meets reality and where scientists use dashes and question marks instead of dots. In “Free The Mind” the central questions are: What is a thought and how does it create a manifestation in the body? Can we make a physical change of the brain only by the power of thoughts?

My personal reason for choosing this subject was sudden panic attacks a couple of years ago. It was a very physical experience, and I felt as if the record in my mind was stuck and that it took a physical effort to get the pick up back in the groove. I found that meditation could be the push I needed, and I became interested in understanding how it was linked. It made me want to open up the skull and look into the brain and se what was really happening during meditation.

FREE THE MIND is the result of that study. The film is not an answer but the beginning of an ongoing debate on what the human being is.

Phie Ambo, May 2012

We are entering a new era – a Renaissance where everything gets turned up side down. In all fields, science makes new discoveries that constantly change our world view and leave nothing the way we first assumed. Our knowledge expands and gets more complex. Constantly, new fundamental questions are raised about who we are as human beings. The more questions asked, the more obvious it is to me how many things we still don’t understand. I find that very inspiring!

FREE THE MIND is the second part of my trilogy on the fundamental human questions. The first film “Mechanical love” (2007) was about robot science. Characteristic for both films is their location in the field where science meets reality and where scientists use dashes and question marks instead of dots. In “Free The Mind” the central questions are: What is a thought and how does it create a manifestation in the body? Can we make a physical change of the brain only by the power of thoughts?

My personal reason for choosing this subject was sudden panic attacks a couple of years ago. It was a very physical experience, and I felt as if the record in my mind was stuck and that it took a physical effort to get the pick up back in the groove. I found that meditation could be the push I needed, and I became interested in understanding how it was linked. It made me want to open up the skull and look into the brain and se what was really happening during meditation.

FREE THE MIND is the result of that study. The film is not an answer but the beginning of an ongoing debate on what the human being is.

Phie Ambo, May 2012

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