What the Bleep! Down the Rabbit Hole
What the Bleep! Down the Rabbit Hole
| 03 February 2006 (USA)
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Interviews with scientists and authors, animated bits, and a storyline involving a deaf photographer are used in this docudrama to illustrate the link between quantum mechanics, neurobiology, human consciousness and day-to-day reality.

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themysteryhighfive

This movie takes quotes out of context from its scientific experts, and misleads viewers.The Ice crystal bit is my favorite BS one. http://www.csicop.org/specialarticles/show/a_grain_of_truth_recreati ng_dr._emotos_rice_experimentBasically the whole film is shouting science at you with peppered non science beliefs peppered in between. In other words this is FOX news the movie.: SCIENCE! our cult beliefs (whispered) SCIENCE!This is a good article on the movie as a whole, and all it's issues: http://www.salon.com/2004/09/16/bleep_2/So in closing if you have a few hours to kill, because this is a long mind melt then go for it. But don't buy the snake oil this movie is peddling.

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rha8

A load of pseudo-scientific nonsense seemingly aimed at the gullible by members of a New Age cult/organisation fronted by J Z Knight, who according to John Olmstead (http://skepdic.com/ramtha.html) said the warrior/god Ramtha "...first appeared to her, while she was in business school having extraordinary experiences with UFOs.She must have a great rapport with her spirit companion, since he shows up whenever she needs him to put on a performance. It is not clear why Ramtha would choose Knight, but it is very clear why Knight would choose Ramtha: fame and fortune, or simple delusion?" "...conducts sessions in which she pretends to go into a trance and speaks Hollywood's version of Elizabethan English in a guttural, husky voice. She has thousands of followers and has made millions of dollars performing as Ramtha at seminars ($1,000 a crack) and at her Ramtha School of Enlightenment, and from the sales of tapes, books, and accessories (Clark and Gallo 1993)." Another reviewer, Johann Hari, had this to say: The global understanding of science is being slowly contaminated.If you want an example of this new pseudo-science, check out the dismal, brain-rotting movie What the Bleep Do We Know? which arrived in the UK fresh from sleeper-success in the States. Marlee Matlin plays a woman who is having a strange day; she meets a boy who is capable of bizarre physical tricks, and he asks her, 'How far down the rabbit-hole do you want to go?' The film claims to be a serious study of the philosophical implications of quantum physics, and Matlin's story is intercut with interviews from people who seem to be scientists. At first, they simply point out some of the extraordinary things that have emerged from the study of matter at a quantum (sub-molecular) level. But gradually the film begins to stir in unscientific (and absurd) extrapolations from quantum physics. The movie's 'scientists' begin to claim that discoveries in quantum physics provide proof for a whole range of fantastical New Age claims. They say you can walk on water if only 'you believe it with every fibre of your being'.The real scientist Richard Dawkins summarises the film's assumptions: 'Quantum physics is deeply mysterious and incomprehensible. Eastern spirituality is deeply mysterious and incomprehensible. Therefore they must be saying the same thing.' Sadly, Dawkins' reaction is an exception; many newspapers have lauded the film as a 'brilliant scientific study'.Okay, so it's a dumb movie, you might think, but what harm does it do? On its own, very little. But What the Bleep ... bears all the hallmarks of the new pseudo-sciences. One typical tactic is to take a gap in scientific evidence and fill it with faith-based claims. For example, geologists have discovered a gap in the fossil record which makes it hard to explain how evolution worked at certain periods. The neo-creationists seize on this and claim it as 'proof' that evolution didn't happen at all. (Incredibly, over 40 per cent of Americans believe them). The New Agers do the same with the gaps in quantum physics. (From The Independent a UK quality newspaper).

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arjenoldenhuis

...it is easy to question the speculation in the movie and point your finger at all the things that are not true. But in fact it shows your own strong believe in the importance of pure science. But what is pure science? That word is too abstract. In this case, pure scientific truth is based on mathematics. In pure science, if the mathematics are right, something is true till its proved wrong. Do you think that's a good approach on the truth? It gets more difficult when the movie tickles some of your own crazy thoughts and ideas about the Universe, which you already had when you where a child. A little bit hypnotized under influence of alpha- wave music and the easy- listening tone of voices, for me, the movie what the Bleep do we know, was a spiritual journey. I think when you approach this movie only in a scientific way, you get lost in a veil of secrecy. In that case this is simply not a movie for you, there are enough beautiful pure scientific movies, go for that! This movie is for philosophers, people in quest, spiritual starved people craving for new insights, dreamers, people in orthodox chains, etc. This movie doesn't have the answers, it never claims to have them. But what fun would it be if the makers of this movie just followed the protocol 'Pure scientific approach'? Wouldn't it be nothing more then a 13 in a dozen movie, a skinny version of Hawkings Universe? Its a movie, everybody has to decide for themselves what is true or not. The reason why the movie get a 7 out of ten is because of two lies. 1. The change of water after blessing and the intention of a thought. In fact it shows a molecule before and after freezing it. ( a shame ) 2. Quantum mechanics does not tell us that large objects like a basketball, a chair or a table or even persons are waves of possibilities. I think that this is the point Ramtha goes its own course and I go mine, still I keep the idea in mind. Its just fun to question it all and try to find answers. But it always is a mystery. That's why its fun in the first place. Like the following idea; 1+1=3 Why? For example; one person + one person = a group. Now you got one person, another person and a group. So 1+1=3 2=3.

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TheCosmicDetective

The "message" of the BLEEP films is that coherent individuals humans have the potential to clear cellular level false and harmful to well-being 'memory' information and ways of thinking, and thereby improve the quality of one's life, allowing for a more enlightened level of Conscious Awareness. In the films is presented different individuals' perspectives on information about the history of, to leading edge modern scientific explorations into why people think what we think is "true" and correspondingly behave the way(s) that we do, as well as a method of using 'free will' to change and improve ourselves. In short, the main point is that we have a certain amount of choices and options for what and how we use/spend our human energy 'time'. No one needs to join anything, follow anyone or "believe" anyone or anything. That message is as old as humankind, from cave drawings, to numerous higher-level consciousness individual prophets, philosophers, alchemical scientist, messiahs, psychics, and others. It is clear to me that the endeavor of the filmmakers, and on screen participants, is to contribute to the new genre of Spiritual Cinema films for the purpose of a desirable "New Evolution" for humankind and life on this planet. Otherwise a future of doom and gloom is assured. This is all about taking and using whatever we choose, from wherever, to help ourselves in much needed ways.

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