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.
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