What the Bleep Do We Know?
Listening to: The Wee Hours Review - Roman Candle
Having seen most of the movies worth seeing at present we (that would be the missus
and I) ended up going to What the Bleep Do
We Know?
Because I needed to leave early to catch the ‘The New Cool’ seminar I
wasn’t able to see the complete movie. What I did get to see was very thought provoking.
The movie looks at reality, our perception of it and how the current paradigm stops
people from taking advantage of how it might ‘really’ be. Starting with quantum physics
the movie moves through to subject of neuro-peptides to argue that, fundamentally,
our reality is created by the way we think about it (my grasp of biological processes
let me down at this point). By thinking about our lives in a different way we are
able to create real changes in our lives.
The movie is a documentary that tips more to the the fictional narrative than most.
Given the subject matter it works quiet well and is a clever way of communicating
some complex subjects. Still, the movie spends it’s entire existence teetering on
the fine line between well interpreted science fact and poorly interpreted science
fact (aka new age mumbo jumbo). In fact when ever the woman called Ramtha appeared
on screen the movie fell screaming and limb waving into the abyss of ‘good grief!
spare me please!’
Don’t get me wrong… it is a fascinating movie and even though it has got the ‘next
Kabbalah’ written all over it I think it is well worth seeing. By and large the scientists
they talk to are the types of characters you’d find in any physics or biology faculty.
It is the first time that I have seen a relatively sensible (minus Jar Jar Ramtha) set of theories that are able to move from quantum effects
Binks
to biology without having to rely to heavily on the ‘and magic happens here’ crutch.
I liked it and I found it a compelling story if only because it reinforces my belief
in personal responsibility and aligns with my concept of ‘God’.
