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What the bleep do we know? 30 December 05

Section: article

Categories: distraction / in-a-cinema

This pseudo-documentary is a perverse and bizarre mishmash of science, pop-science, pseudo-science and pseudo-religious propaganda. Its content can be reduced to two basic ideas, namely that individualism is what we are all about in the end, and that there is no objective reality, only a reality that is determined by our consciousness, or, wait, no, there is an objective reality but it is only on a deep quantum level, so on our level we should just party.

I first heard of this movie through someone else who was told by yet someone else that after seeing it she now understood everything, or something to that effect. And I realize now after doing some quick research that it has acquired a certain cult reputation in its country of origin (U.S.).

For the group of dazed scientists and channeling cultists interviewed in the movie there was never a question of a whether a tree falling in a forest makes a sound if no one is there to hear it. One of the speakers suggests that when someone stubs their toe on a stone, it may hurt a bit but nothing real is happening, it is all about their consciousness. A good test of that would be to line up stones of increasing weight, and drop them on the speaker’s toes one after the other to determine at what point consciousness gives way to reality. And also to check on his toes the next day.

Another one of the interviewees, speaking with glazed eyes from his lushly furnished office with a fire in the fireplace behind him, says that every morning he plans how he will create his day according to his wishes. I thought of suggesting his method to some single Black mother living in any U.S. ghetto—let’s see if there are any objective material forces operating on the "unlimited possibilities" available to her, or if it is all merely a projection of her consciousness.

The movie is kind of a liberal, new-age answer to the right-wing Christians in the U.S., trying to reconcile some sense of "god" with science. It is as spooky as the creationists* are mind-numbing and dangerous. (*Intelligent design, as they like to call it. The only possible evidence of "intelligent design" would be that god had the foresight to create the people who are prepared to espouse it.)

It turns out that three of the filmmakers and apparently some of the interviewees are members of the Ramtha cult, and that the movie is a kind of recruitment infomercial. Ramtha’s channeling has been copyrighted, by the way, after she won a court case granting her sole channeling rights against a Berlin woman who was also channeling the same 30,000 year old spirit.

Reviews and a wiki definition of propaganda

www.seattleweekly.com/news/0510/050309_news_mossback.html

media.orkut.com/articles/0137.html

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda

  • Title: What the bleep do we know?
  • Directed by: Ramtha
  • Writing credits: Ramtha
  • Starring: Ramtha, the 30,000 year old spirit and friends
  • Cinematography: Ramtha, the 30,000 year old spirit,
  • Year: circa 28,000 B.C.