What the Bleep Do We Know!?
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Movie Reviews of What the Bleep Do We Know!?
Movie Review: "Cultish?" Bocka-WOW! Call The Secret PO-LEEEECE!
Summary: 5 Stars
...ya shouldn't have to look too far for em these days; just check out section 605 in the 'revised' Patriot Act regarding the new federal gestapo answerable to no one. *hint* ~ golly, it's NOT being discussed in mainline media.
Admittedly, there's a part of me that marvels over how this seemingly innocuous lil' mind-bender film prompts such vitrolic diatribes from the ranks of haters who apparently just HATE HATE HATE any of the questions, ideas, theories and speculations presented in this funny, warm n' fuzzy-feel-good documentary!
I mean, I can understand why some would be compelled to contemptuously roll their eyes over any attempt to ground beliefs in spiritualism/new[old]age mysticism/existential quandary within physics/exalted academia ["just the facts and nothing but the facts"] however, like nearly everything in this "just do it" philosophy-hating country {now that the fascist coup of the 2000 [s]election has menaced foward without so much as the slightest bit of resistance from the majority of you cowardly collective heads o' knuckle} this doc neatly divides most into two disparaging groups, which, as we've seen, usually leaves little room for crucial examination of the hard to define points that lie within the gray area.
I honestly didn't come away from a second viewing of this film believing that, as some reviewers have suggested, its makers were intent on, BWWAAAHAHAHAHAAA!!!!, "brainwashing" viewers into following a rigid code of beliefs. If that was their intention, how, provided say, lots of people suddenly began examining their lives, is that in turn going to directly benefit the films makers?...other than maybe purchasing this DVD, or buying a book?
In other words, if there's a crime, or at least something nefarious, given the very real dilemma of brainwashing, then logically it follows that there must be a motive for doing so. And we all [should, ha] know that most people are LONG brainwashed by what's "familiar" to them; those they surround themselves with, aspire to, utility of belief systems, etc, as the Consumer Culture surrounds and supplies the accepted din of the collective conscious. It's a wonderful world of colonized minds, to be sure.
Soooo.....how exactly is this ninety minute long documentary going to "brainwash" anyone? The suggestion seems absurd, but actually is typical psychological "projection" from the conservative crowd; impute to others what they themselves are most guilty and necessarily fearful of. The sun sets on your dying land.
I especially liked the film's ideas on misguided emotions and emotional addiction fused within our daily supplement and routine, that we overlook how it's merely another trick we use to foolishly keep ourselves imprisoned. This benefits which belief structure, ha? These ideas somewhat mirror controversial "loony" author/journalist David Icke's axiom, "infinite Love is the only truth, everything else is illusion." Indeed.
"A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the perogative of the brave" ~ Gandhi
With "What The Bleep...?," it's more about having an open mind versus a rigidly closed one.
I could prattle on indefinitely about such matters, but I'll sum up with this submission: those who hate this doc only use the philosophy-masquerading-as-"science" argument to front their true motivation, which is, they simply hate the ideas being presented in this film, period, end of discussion. That the film's presenters attribute "scientific theory" as a vehicle to espouse ideas largely philisophic offers detractors of "whiny, namby pamby, LIBERAL gobblegook" the oh so "reasonable" footing required to, from a conservative, Establishment point of view, attack and disavow the inherently creative *intention* within encouraging a disasterously homogenized mass society to dare examine existence through a different lense other than the sad "reality" bought and sold as a bill of goods via shrill, superficial conformity resulting from the strategically bound placement of ideas.
"Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes" ~ Jung
Movie Review: This movie made me feel intensely for 3 days like I and the universe are one field.
Summary: 5 Stars
"In the beginning was the Void, teeming with infinite possibilities, of which you are one..." So begins this fascinating and mind-boggling movie, part documentary and part acted out story starring Marlee Matlin. It's not a perfect movie, as the mixed reviews demonstrate. But I give it "five stars" because if you really "get it," even part of it, that far outweighs any issues of what the film-makers might have done differently. All of that is a matter of individual preference. I might have preferred that the movie restricted its interviews to the scientists and skip the renowned psychic, though I agreed strongly with most everything she said. It's just that scientists do not have the credibility problem of a psychic, and the messages of this movie are vitally important. But the movie is "perfect" at being what it set out to be, which includes the following:
The documentary parts interview quantum physicists, psychologists, and others to uncover many of our hidden assumptions, the things we have always taken for granted, even unconsciously, and shows how they are as wrong as the old certainty that the earth was flat. They shine light on the difference between how the world feels to us and the way it really is. The self is intangible, yet thinks it perceives a "real" world. But scientists like Fred Alan Wolfe, are finding, "What I thought was unreal, now, for me, seems in some ways to be more real than what I think to be "real," which seems more now to be unreal." This is because quantum physicists have discovered that any atom is through and through intangible: it's nucleus, its electrons, all quantum particles flash in and out of existence without any hard, static, or predictable substance to to be found in them at all. There is no "stuff " making up anything that "exists." We have felt that space is empty and matter is solid, but what quantum physics has found is that there is nothing to matter either; it is "completely insubstantial." The most concentrated aspect of matter is "more like a thought, a concentrated bit of information." And at that quantum level, everything we ever thought was physical is but "waves of possibility" which are collapsed into "reality" according to the inquiries or expectations of the observer (thus, Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle.)
The universe acts, both at the micro or quantum level and at the macro or astronomical level, as if it is an ever manifesting form of Consciousness. And your consciousness is part of the Whole Consciousness. There is no hard reality up against which you posit your life. You are It. The "superpositions" of quantum particles suggests that there are many possible realities, and all possible realities existing simultaneously.
"Quantum physics," according to Amit Goswami (Ph.D. physicist), is "the physics of possibility." He later makes it explicit: "We all have a habit of thinking that everything around us is already a thing, existing without my input, without my choice. We have to banish that kind of thinking. Instead, you really have to recognize that even the material world around us...all of these are nothing but possible movements of Consciousness. And I am choosing moment to moment out of those movements to bring my actual experience into manifestation...Instead of thinking of 'things,' we have to think of possibilities; they're all possibilities of Consciousness."
So, why do we keep recreating the same reality in our lives, recreating the same kind of relationships, getting the same jobs over and over again?
"In an infinite sea of potentials that exist all around us, how come we keep creating the same reality? Is it possible that we're so conditioned to our daily lives, that we buy the idea that we have no control at all? We have been conditioned to believe that the external world is more real that the internal world. This new model of science says just the opposite: it says what's happening within us will create what's happening outside us."
"There is no 'out there' out there, independent of what's going on in here." ~Fred Alan Wolfe
Movie Review: What The Bleep Do We Know!?
Summary: 5 Stars
In a word - brilliant!
About a year ago on a visit to the US to The Monroe Institute, my friend implored me to go the cinema with him and see this film. He raved about it, saying it was one of the best film/documentaries he had seen in his life. With a recommendation like that, who in his right mind refuses?
Sure enough, by the end of the week I'd seen the film three times...
So, what's all the fuss about?
What The Bleep!? is one of the first films to reach a 'mainstream' cinematic audience with the new message - science and religion are coming together as mankind continues with its quest to answer the riddle of the universe. The refreshing change is that science is opening up its perviously firmly-held doors and letting in a few old 'enemies' - spirituality and religion. This new paradigm has been predicted by many including Nostradamus, and is happening around us as you read this. Anyone who picks up copies of Nature, Scientific American or Time will indeed see it for themselves, and those who note the success of novels such as The Da Vinci Code will see that the worm is turning..
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Back to the story-at-hand, this feature-length film cleverly presents a docu-drama story of a mute photographer (played expertly by oscar-winner Marlee Matlin), who gradually questions her own existence, judgements and view of 'reality', with mixed-in narrative from some of the worlds most cutting-edge scientists, physicists and biologists. These eminent experts shed light on 'what the bleep is going on' at various points of the story from the viewpoint of 'science,' taking the viewer on a clever journey of understanding and realisation.
The combination is very powerful, and the whole film has a multi-facted approach of fact, premise, humour and contemplation. It not only keeps you engrossed, it also really, really makes you think... And then think some more... One of my favourite narrators in the movie is J.Z. Knight, a lady who (purpotedly) channels an ancient Atlantean being who goes by the name of Ramtha. People may scoff at 'channellers' but the words of wisdom that are shared will make you think on a different level. People who still scoff would do well to investigate this lady more and open up their minds. Thought-provoking and challenging. Great stuff!
The experts hit you hard from many angles, and (without spoiling the content of the film) they gradually build up a picture of what they surmise is 'going on' based upon their own professional expertise and that of the greater scientific establishment. Joyfully absent from this movie are the 'flat earth' scientists who can be so frustrating to today's wisdom and knowledge seekers (whom these days are so much more intellectually advanced and better informed) - these people are movers and shakers in their respective fields, the books produced between them easily able to fill a bookshelf or two in ground-breaking reading!
This is a great movie. Not perfect by any means, but a real visionary prod into the Ether from the brave filmmaker Willian Arntz who kept to his guns like a dog with a bone in order to get this film out to the public.
Get this movie.
Watch it lots of times.
Do your own research into the many threads it will show you ,and build upon your wisdom and understanding.
Show your friends. Show your neighbours. Get them to buy it too and spread the word.
As anyone who is keeping up to date with today's scientific 'breakthroughs' knows, Newtonian physics, Darwinism and many of the ingrained scientific precepts that we were taught in school are now being eroded away, and replaced with a new paradigm.
All is not what it seems at first, and this film is a great start to help people understand that humanity is really not quite as right as it thinks it is....
Movie Review: Spiritual Revolution & Explanation 4 Scientific Minded
Summary: 5 Stars
***Explanation 4 Scientific Minded** This movie is NOT presented in a scholarly fashion for the Scientific Community but that's not who or what it's meant for. This movie is presented in a manner closer to how Fahrenheit 9/11 presented politics instead of a lecture by Richard Faynman, While all of it's parts are scientifically true a purest or fundamentalist may question the way the collected material is presented, but while the presentation may be debatable it is presented that why to move society forward. The ideas in this movie are there to help, heal, inspire, change, and create interested on a larger scale where there is none. This film is a spiritual film based on science not simply a science film, if that's what you want there are plenty of those out there but most people don't and that's who this is for. This movie is trying to express a perspective of the world that is modern to help society understand and change so humanity can move forward and away from archaic old world beliefs that are holding humanity back by tying us to ideas that don't work in the light of scientific discoveries.
Scientists tend break things done into smaller parts and that is the way they like it but this movie is a Philosophy for life based on Science that collects Scientific ideas into a unified whole and perhaps it doesn't make sense as a world view to them because either they have found a way to unify old world religious ideas with scientific evidence or they have excepted science as absolute fact despite the realization by many that perceptions do influence findings with one example being that depending on what instruments are chosen when viewing light it either appears as a Wave or a particle, it's almost as if the light waits until we look at it before it decides how it's going to be perceived.
**Spiritual Revolution*** This movie is the REAL LIFE truth encoded in The Matrix movies. If the vilest villain saw this movie he would start to reevaluate his life and if we see it then we'll be able to understand and maybe forgive him. The World can be better then it is. Is this movie the changing mind shift novelty Terence McKenna predicted? This film is much more then a launching point it is a psychedelic mind melting catapult in consciousness changing. Change you're perceptions, Change who you are! This movie is Enjoyable to watch and will affect who you are for the better. If you want to Understand or just be Entertained you will be pleasantly surprised on both fronts. Can you have everything you want from life, if you believe you can it will begin The Process that makes it happen! The movie is presented in a story type fashion with likable characters and Doctors of physics and psychology explaining in fun easy yet knowledgeable ways. This Movie is the most important Film to date and you and everyone you know and everyone should see it just to SEE WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT! And after you see it what next, while this movie is a lot and very satisfying if you want more, I **RECOMMEND** you read**** ROBERT ANTON WILSON's**** books or listen to his audio book ROBERT ANTON WILSON EXPLAINS EVERYTHING (or old Bob exposes his ignorance) or watch the film about him and his ideas called Maybe Logic. But see this movie, it's a stepping-stone in the right direction!!!
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Movie Review: Teaches us to be open minded and always open our heart. ..
Summary: 5 Stars
Fascinating is the only word I can explain about this movie/documentary. I had similar experience as what Amanda in the movie, though... the movie has drawn the character change of thought patterns/beliefs in a very dramatic process. In reality, I know the breakdown of my thoughts and beliefs was very fast (well, because I was on the edge of either letting my life go permanently or to breakdown the entire thoughts and beliefs which causes the depressive moods), but it has always been the two steps forward and one step backward process. And yes... I am diagnosed as clinically depressed. I am so glad that finally someone is using arts and science to create this beautiful piece of documentary about how powerful our thoughts and beliefs can control our lives, our own world.
This whole movie merges science and spirituality to create a new reality about what thoughts and beliefs can do to our own perceptions of reality. The first step is we become aware of our emotions, aware of our thoughts and beliefs... This awareness is like us becoming the scientist in our mind and soul. Only when we become conscious being aware of and accepting the existence of our both positive and destructive thoughts within ourselves, can we turn/return that energy to gentle love and compassion. The reality described in the religions forces our mind to live in the mental prison, while the truth is that religion was supposed to be the gateway towards spiritual freedom. The best thing is that we always thought our past is going to carry to our future... Only realize it will only be true when we are stuck in the unconscious patterns of thinking... When we learn, when we heal from the seemingly unbearable painful experience, can we truly create a new dimension of reality, a new dimension to live.
NOTES: The only two notes are as follows:
1. Open your heart and mind... even you have the tendency to pre-judge
When watching the movie, you might want to let the movie inspire you than pre-judging what these researchers say. These people study the quantum physics topic for years and we can only give them the credit of their work by opening up mind and heart to listen... If you decide later what they say makes absolutely no sense or you disagree, that is ok... but please open up your mind to understand and to listen... so that you get what you pay for the DVD.
2. Set realistic expectations about the change of thoughts and beliefs
Inner transformation (change of thoughts and beliefs) is a two step forward and one step back process. Amanda's mind seemed to be healed so dramatically in the movie and it is not the reality. I was put in a pretty life-threatening situation... and even with that push, it is still a two step forward one step back... one year long therapy to reach the state of mind that is more conscious than my last 24 years of life. Having the intention, the persistence to change is a good start. Having the commitment and constantly inviting love and compassion are the keys to explore the unlimited growth potential.
I hope you will enjoy watching the movie and feel we learn something new...