In the film "What the Bleep do we know?", William Tiller is the one who looks and sounds like a real wizard...

Professor Tiller was head of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship grant as well.

He was fascinated with studying the physical effects of human consciousness and intention.

He showed that intention could change the pH of water in either the acid or the alkaline direction by a full pH unit. Because pH is a logarithmic scale, those two units of overall control represent a 100-fold difference in the level of protons, or hydronium ions.

Other experiments showed highly significant effects of intention on enzyme activity and ATP/ADP ratios (cellular energy storage).

He developed a device that could be programmed by human intention to continue to resonate and affect the physical properties of the space around it, including the temperature of the room.

He surmised that such effects of consciousness altered the fundamental gauge symmetry space characteristics of the local space.

In a video that is not available to play on this site, Bill tells the story of Slater's studies in the 1930s with inverting prisms, where it took a couple weeks before the inverted image appeared right side up. On removing the inverting glasses, the world again looked upside down for a time. He doesn't mention that repeating the experiment multiple times with the same subject produced an intractable confusion between these two spatial orientations.

He also describes the story told by Charles Darwin of how when the Beagle first anchored off Patagonia, only the shaman could see the ship. It took some time and relating how parts of the ship resembled known objects in the tribe's perceptual experience, such as the similarity of the mast to a tree, could the general population begin to see the ship.