My roommate is into all kinds of interesting bits and pieces that relate to astral planes, chaos theory and quantum physics. Well his birthday just passed and he had been wanting this movie, What the Bleep Do We Know for quite a while so that’s the gift that I got him.

Of course I didn’t realize that this meant that I and the rest of our friends were going to be subjected to it. To be honest the premise of it sounding a little silly:

“Embark on a life-changing journey with Amanda, a divorced photographer who tumbles down a metaphysical rabbit hole. Her mind-bending voyage through the worlds of science and spirituality includes revelations by quantum physics experts, playful animation, and even a conversation with a wise, 35,000-year-old being. Ultimately, Amanda’s perception of reality is turned inside out and the meaning of life becomes clear. See for yourself why this groundbreaking movie became one of the most compelling and talked about films of the year.”

Now, I know a little bit about Quantum Physics and I think it’s groovy that there is a science that somehow thinks it can prove all of the theories and laws that are put forth in Hermetic teachings, like the ALL and the power of consciously creating. But I just thought that the concept for the movie, not the actual field of Quantum Physics, sounded kind of weak.

Well I was partially right but not entirely. You see this movie is a deliberate mix of “drama” with “documentary.” The scientists that are interviewed about Quantum Physics are very interesting. They are all speaking quite passionately and authoritatively about the ability of the human mind to make reality.

You see, we are not experiencing a set and solid reality that is happening to us. We are co-creating reality in our minds and with the world around us. We experience what we believe to be. Change your beliefs and your perception, then you change the reality that you personally will experience. Sound familiar?

Quantum Physics is where science meets spirituality.

The science is fascinating and it really does make you think. You want to look at things in a different way while you are watching this film. You want to explore the power of the human mind and the concept of spirit, or ultimate observer.

“All of these are nothing but possible moments of consciousness. And I am choosing moment-to-moment out of these (possible) moments to bring my actual experience into manifestation.”

The problem is that the film’s mix of actual movie and scientific documentary is lopsided. The interesting science suffers at the hands of the film editor, having been hacked apart incoherently. Ostensibly this was in order to make way for snippets of the semi-dramatic story that is being told in an effort to illustrate the concepts being presented to us by the experts.

Alternatively, what could have been a compelling dramatic story is so shortened and over-animated as to become just as surreal and abstract as the theories that it is supposedly striving to make more accessible to the general populace. It fails where The Secret succeeds. (More about that particular philosophical degradation in a later post.) Which may be why you cannot help but have heard of The Secret, but have likely not heard of this film which preceded it by over a year.

It would be best if this film were either a drama with expert voice-overs or an outright documentary with no dramatic elements at all.

The film does have a three-disc extended version which I assume would be much more instructive and perhaps include a lengthened version of the dramatic movie as well.

But this film is not all bad. What I am saying is that it is a good film that has been poorly edited. As a person who isn’t already instructed in or familiar with these deeply philosophical and spiritual concepts the film may do little to convince you of these truths. It simply leaves too little concrete explanations and too much confusing babble behind in its wake.

As a person who is already comfortable with and interested in the concepts of oneness and creatorship of our own reality, this film is a worthy addition to your learning. It provides compelling scientific explanations that will confirm for you all that you have been thinking on the subject of the human power to create and recreate our world.

“Our tendency is that the world is already out there, independent of my experience. It is not. Heisenburg (co-discoverer of Quantum Physics) said, ‘Atoms are not things. They are only tendencies.’ So instead of thinking of things, you have to think of possibilities.”

One particularly fascinating scene deals with the power of intentions on the physical makeup of water. What a simple hand-written intention can do the molecules and living crystals found within a bottle of water is presented in a dynamic and disturbingly thought-provoking way. I was hooked on this quirky movie from that moment onward.

All-in-all it is a perfectly valuable movie to any spiritual thinker who is pondering these concepts and looking for an eye-opening experience for the next leg of their journey. It is worth the $19.95, if for nothing more than curiosity’s sake. The offbeat statements of J.Z Knight who channels a being called Ratha are entertaining all on their own.

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Note: If you’d like to read more about the power of intention on simple water molecules you can get the book the Hidden Messages in Water or order the DVD, Water Crystals in Motion- Messages From Water.

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