So I finally got around to watching “What the Bleep Do We Know!?” the other day. After hearing so many different people talk about what an amazing movie it is, I pushed the play button on my remote with a great deal of anticipation. For the most part, I found it to be fascinating. Great music. Great visuals. Lot of moments when I said out loud to no one in particular: “seriously?”
I guess that’s because there are several moments in the film when I was confronted with something that was pretty hard to believe, such as the Emoto water crystals bit. I have no idea if there is any validity to Emoto’s findings, but boy do I want it to be true. I want to live in that kind of universe.
Several of the talking heads had some profound things to say. A couple of them came off looking like nutjobs. Midway through I started thinking that there was something not quite right about the blonde lady. Sure enough, as the end credits rolled I discovered that the strange blonde lady was actually channeling “Ramtha,” a 35,000 year old spirit. I began to wonder, “Just what the bleep kind of documentary is this?”
Turns out all three of the filmmakers are students of Ramtha. That doesn’t mean that everything in the film is bogus. It just means this a documentary with a definite viewpoint, which by the way is true of EVERY documentary, including those produced by “objective” Christians.
While I’m going to pass on the New Age mumbo jumbo interspersed throughout, I’m going to continue to pursue the implications of quantum mechanics. I’m not a scientist and I don’t have a clue as to how accurate the science discussed in this film is, but I’ll say it again. I really, really want it to be true. I love the idea of our being co-creators with God in a universe that is open to infinite possibilities.
It’s interesting that it?s the New Agers who have first grabbed this new paradigm and baptized it into their metaphysics. At some point, Christians will get to do the same thing. We did it with the Newtonian view of the universe. Looks like we’re going to get to do it again.
We better get busy. Ramtha has a 35,000 year head start on us.
Telling Stories, Asking Questions, Learning Lessons
I watched the film awhile ago. And that blonde hair lady freaked me right out, I left with very similar thoughts. the talk of you being your own god at the end got under my skin. however it was very thought provoking.
I liked the film. I watched it as an assignment for our “book club.” Included in this book club is me & my wife, a couple C of Cers, a Cathloic, a vaguely religious somewhat Christian type and two full blown New Agers. It’s kind of cool, actually.
Conversation in the book club concerning this movie was fascinating. Isn’t so much of life like an ink blot test? The pictures end up revealing as much about what we bring to it as what is actually there.
Much the science presented (albeit in ever so biased fashion) was encouraging to me. I thought of Jesus walking on water as miraculous, but in a whole other way thatn I had before.
The science does lend to faith. I really like that they were bledning the two. There has been an over-emphasized dualism between sceince and faith for too long. Of course I think Ramtha is a fraud at best, a demon at worst, but even still, I like that it opened the door to the (re)integration of science and faith.
Dude – is there something in the water in Tulsa? After looking at the web site you linked, with such stellar intellectuals as Drew Barrymore, I must admit that I think you’re pulling our leg on this.
But, as long as there aren’t any curse words, then it must be holy.
🙂
This water stuff is pretty interesting stuff. You have to remember that I’m a graduate of Tree Hugger U in B’ham, but I really think that the Church has by in large ignored the enviornment, the implications of our actions within our enviornment, and how followers of Jesus should tread lightly upon the Earth. My mom – who is quite a gardener – always tells me to talk to my flowers while I’m watering. After reading about St. Francis – who had some magnificent experiences with nature himself – I’ve started singing while watering and the flowers aren’t dead – yet.
Wade, as for being a co-creator with God, I’m not so sure that is part of our nature. Being co-workers with God in redeeming creation is clearly part of our role, and I suppose that could be tied into the happy or “bleeped” water idea of the Japanese dude.
What are you all smoking?
Just kidding, I’ve been wanting to say that.
Ah, the magic of perception.
I don’t know what the bleep that has to do with anything.
I have a co-worker friend of twenty five years who could be termed a new ager. He’s a very competent engineer and apparently really does believe some of those things we would consider to be way far out. Yet, once in a while, an off-hand comment he makes or an email he sends will affect me deeply, positively, and permanently. He has enriched my life and I am thankful for him.
Steve–excellent point. We can’t forget that many new agers would say that a lot of what Christians believe is either far out or way behind.
As a minister who is really a scientist, I love living in a world where quantum physics is breaking apart our preconceptions about reality. C’mon, when you can prove that something can get so small that it can pass right through the middle of itself without touching itself… that is awesome! (for further reading “Alice in Quantumland” is a good start)
Get ready for this: some deacons were cleaning out our office building and left a strange book on my desk (as a joke, I’m sure). It is supposedly written by a Ph.D. in physics who swears that we live in a “geocentric” universe and that the Bible tells us exactly what we need to know about physics and that all the current science is of Satan. Wow. Pretty sure that Ph.D. came in a crackerjack box. I, for one, still find truth in Galileo’s words: the Bible teaches how one goes to heaven, not how the heavens go. God has always spoken to us in the language we could understand (our culture). We in Flatland need to trust what the Lord tells us about being transformed into the image of Jesus, and we should not be afraid of advances in science–they should only increase our faith.