What the Bleep Do We Know!

I saw this movie the other day. I wish I had read the web site first. My friend billed it as a philosophical and scientific exploration. I love those. I was sucked in by the NOVA-style talking head format with imaginative film elements in between. (I love those NOVA shows!)

It turned out to be a new-age pseudo-science guru lesson. I felt slimed when I came out. I'm afraid I dumped on my friend who invited me.

Things you might want to know:

• They start with solid science and then leap into what I'll call "alternative science" for lack of a better term, with no acknowledgement that the standards for "proof" have changed radically. There is no peer review on the "science" which takes them from quantum physics to sprituality.
  
• The experts they interview hold forth both within and outside of their area of expertise. Their credentials are not revealed until the end of the movie, so you don't know how to make an assessment of what they are saying.
  
• One of the experts is a 35,000 year old spirit named Ramtha being channeled by the blond woman. He/She holds forth on quantum physics, molecular biology, neurobiology, and sprirituality. Even at the end of the movie, they don't say that Ramtha is being channelled. They just show the channeler and subtitle her Ramtha, and say shes some kind of guru. You can say what you like, but by the end of the film, when she came on the screen I was averting my eyes and praying in tongues under my breath. And this was before I knew anything about her. That was one weird experience.
  

I felt it was my duty to warn someone about this movie. Even before I knew about "Ramtha", I was feeling like there was something really cultic. There was definately a "reality distortion field" around that movie.

*whew*
Thanks for listening.

- posted by Jor @ 12:10 AM -