What the Bleep and
What's Next?
What the Bleep Do We Know? is a wonderful and fascinating movie. It introduces
the audience to theories of modern physics, offering
a new level of insight into what our world is and how
it operates. It presents the notion that a Unified Field,
the underlying basis of all existence, is in fact a
field of pure consciousness. It is remarkable that many
modern physicists hold this viewpoint and that ancient
philosophers have shared this same understanding. The
implications are vast and the potential enormous, transforming
our understandings of all fields of life. Giving several
examples, God is understood to be the personified quality
of the Unified Field. The human psyche is rooted in
the perfect order and harmony inherent in the Unified
Field, and the recently discovered limitations of Darwin's
theory are resolved by our understanding of the Unified
Field.
I think a particularly intriguing aspect
of What the Bleep involves the patterning of
water crystals as they are influenced by thought or
words. Beautiful and uplifting words create coherent
and lovely patterns in the water. Negative thoughts
and words create the opposite quality in the water.
The implications of this simple experiment are far-reaching.
What is the interface between human consciousness and
the state of the ecology? How do our thoughts affect
our health? Does it offer new insights into how we go
about attaining world peace? Is it realistic to pursue
a harmonious world through legislation when what dwells
within all the individuals remains at the same level
of disharmony? And what does it really look like for
a person to be functioning in a more harmonious state?
Are our beliefs about that merely a form of conditioning
that, in the final analysis, prevents us from attaining
it? What the Bleep hints at the possibilities.
What the Bleep offers the
concept of the "Observer" as a new perspective
one can embrace. Perhaps the observer is more accurately
defined as an entirely new mode of human function. How
does the notion of an observer interface with modern
physics? Ancient seers have suggested that the observer
is the Unified Field - the underlying basis of not only
the individual, but also the entire universe. Awareness
of it is not simply a perspective, attitude, or philosophy.
Instead, it is an aspect of a whole new mode of human
function.
Other concepts in What the Bleep can also easily be misconstrued. For example, the movie
puts forth the notion that we create our own reality.
Actually working with that effectively can be a challenge.
Sometimes, people attempt to do so through affirmations,
repeatedly telling themselves, for example, "I
am a good person," in an attempt to make that a
reality. However, contained in every affirmation is
a hidden statement proclaiming the opposite perspective.
The hidden statement contained within "I am a good
person" is "I don't really think I'm good
person, so I'm going to tell myself I am." So the
underlying effect of an affirmation is simply the acknowledgement
and reinforcement of the opposite value: "I don't
believe I'm a good person, but I wish I was."
The concept that we create our own
reality is sometimes interpreted to mean that we are
free to create whatever we want. But in actuality, much
of what we create is a result of conditioned attitudes,
feelings, and philosophies from which we are anything
but free. Our attempts to become free often amount to
little more than the movement from one set of conditioned
beliefs to another. Freedom from this complex web of
conditioning is not attained by telling ourselves we
are free. What does it truly mean to be free? I suggest
that the key lies in a deeper understanding of concepts
in modern physics such as the Heisenberg Uncertainty
Principle and Einstein's notion that, "God did
not play dice with the universe." What the
Bleep scratches the surface, but how many people
are willing to look deeper?
These concerns bring into question
the entire field of personal development. How can we
responsibly go about it? Generally, we aspire to find
a belief system and a mode of behavior that we feel
is more appropriate and healthy. What the Bleep beautifully portrays that what-we-all-are in our essence
is profoundly exquisite, divine if you will. But can
the discovery of that inner perfection be attained by
aligning with an overlay of beliefs and behavioral patterning?
The overlay of conditioning is like a shell, crust,
or covering of the true divinity that lies deeper within
us. That divinity is hidden beneath even the most well-intended
beliefs and behaviors we impose upon ourselves. The
process of unfolding inner divinity is subtle indeed.
It is not something imposed upon the individual. It
is the blossoming of that which dwells deeply within
the individual.
© Michael Mamas, 11/04 |
