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http://www.whatthebleep.com/

Saw it.. like it.. but felt the answers given about 'god' were wrong as they violate Occam's Razor. The world just is.. we are just here.. there doesn't have to be an overarching entity taking care of things.

But it's understandable, as the physicists interviewed see death as inevitable and have come to create acceptable (to them) afterlife scenarios = god.

Otherwise, the movie was excellent in helping me to visualize what's happening in our brains and at the quantum level.

The movie deceived Ebert, too:

"While the film "What the #$*! Do We Know!?" parades itself as a tell-all about quantum physics, it turns out that it's actually a 111-minute infomercial for ... that's right, the Ramtha School of Enlightenment. In fact, the three filmmakers, [William] Arntz, [Betsy] Chasse and [Mark] Vicente, are all devotees of Ramtha."

http://rogerebert.su...egory=ANSWERMAN

Yes, basically it's a bunch of nonsense - falls into the same category as the Natural Law party mystics. People who are trying to dress their mysticism up by mangling science they don't understand into interesting-sounding rubbish.

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Noo shit.

She was in the film:


http://www.ramtha.com/school2.html

hmm... Should I expect to hear undertones of this Ramtha school of thought in this video?

I've never heard of this group before, until now.

edit: perhaps I have heard of this group... I seem to remember another reference to it from somewhere else.
Edited by cosmos, 10 October 2004 - 07:39 AM.

What You Will Learn
Students of Ramtha’s School of Enlightenment are taught the following fundamental concepts and disciplines of the Great Work:

The Nature of Consciousness and Energy
The Redefinition of God As Our Observer and Divine Quality
The Mystery of the Soul, and Life After Death
The Mystery of Involution and Reincarnation
The Nature of Spirit and Matter
What Is Destiny? Who Is Responsible for Personal Destiny? Can It Be Changed?
The Biology of Human Consciousness
Study of the Chemistry and Function of the Brain in the Creation of Reality
Definition of Mind
Discipline of C&E™ That Helps to Broaden, Change, and Expand Our Mind
Discipline on How to Experience Leaving Our Body Consciously
Discipline of Remote Viewing into the Past, Present, or Future
Telepathy, and Sending-and-Receiving
Ability to Focus on a Single Thought for a Period of Time
Manifesting Something Out of Nothing
Discipline of Blue Body Healing™
Discipline of Blue Body Dance™
Ability to Physically Heal Yourself and Others
Twilight Visualization Process™

Would you like a little Neurobiology in your crap this morning? (chuckle)
Probably not even that...

The What the Bleep Do We Know!? DVD is currently #3 on Amazon's Top Sellers list.

Well, I certainly didn't like that film. It seemed too puerile.

The What the Bleep Do We Know!? DVD is currently #3 on Amazon's Top Sellers list.

Holy crap, it is over a month ago and it is still in the top 10; it is currently #5.

I saw it in a packed theater and HATED it. The title is dead on or it could have been called, "We had some scientists tell us stuff and bleeped up the interpretation of it." They gave you the intro to a quantum text and then made stuff up, same thing with biochemistry.

Me and my girlfriend walked out of the theatre after about 15 minutes.

Mmmm, BJ, went back and read all the posts here including your first. I don't recall a reliance on the existence of "god" in the film. I thought it was dragged out a bit but did touch upon some real science that I believe is better conveyed in that BBC documentary of the Horizon series entitled "Parallel Universes." Basically if you cater to the string theory idea you may have to face the possibility that universe is completely dynamic and maybe what has been will come around again ad infinitum. This alone I believe explains why sometimes a person who claims to be channeling information actually seems to come up with some cognizant new observations beyond just chance. Since a great many of humanity have succumbed to some depiction of universe and existence as linear the prospects of a completely dynamic view appear magical or mystical just as advanced science can seem the same. Consider, not all things that appear as mystical or magical are necessarily erroneous.

One could have come to have sort of a vested interest in rather linear thinking. It happens.

Didn't know until researching it afterwards that it is a promo film for Ramtha. What a waste of time and money... [ang]

Never see this movie unless you want to know how these people think, the way they explain QM is more confusing that it is informative, this WILL hurt your understanding of it.