Ugh, Quantum Physics crap spouted by Astrologist

[SpaceFluffer]

I remember having difficulties adjusting to the phony accent at the beginning of the movie. What's it supposed to be? Russian? Fyne British?

Well, obviously that's Ramtha. Perhaps they should have explained this in the movie, but J.Z. Knight (whom you pictured above) is actually able to channel Ramtha, a 30,000 year old warrior from Atlantis. Hence the weird accent. Makes sense now, doesn't it? No? Good.

 

[Bone_Vulture]

Oh man... some of the IMDB user comments concerning this movie are comedy gold.

This movie spelled out, for me, the bridge between science and my spiritual beliefs. I am thrilled that it got made in the first place, let alone that was held over in so many cities, and picked up for repeated showings by multiple theaters in some cities--which almost never happens. It shows that it elicits a powerful response in so many, many of us. I've read fundamentalist viewers talking about "New Age propaganda" which is just nonsense. The message of the film, repeated and repeated, and announced in the very title, is that we all need to think for ourselves, and that, compared to what there is to know--we're all in kindergarten.

 

[RichardR]

I've certainly seen some things I wouldn't have thought possible - some of it turned out not to be.

Haven't seen the film, but I decided to find out who the 'scientist' was you mentioned.

Basically, she sounds like a conventional scientist - a neuroscientist who has worked for the NIH and various institutions, and contributed to some groundbreaking research - whose ideas became odder and odder until she fell out with her peers, blamed it on their inherently closed minds, and took a fork in the road off down one made of yellow bricks.

Now she sits on the wooer side of CAM, and writes books that sound like nonsense hidden by technical language.

Here's her website, advertising various things like her new CD Psychosomatic Wellness: Healing Your BodyMind

Another of her books, Your Body Is Your Unconscious Mind, looks at how chakras and the subconscious mind interact to produce emotion (here)

The Molecules of Emotion sounds from the title like it might be more okay, but is more of an account of her bickering and falling out with the 'establishment', apparently. Some of the Amazon reviews seem to have clocked this for drivel, though it is the kind of thing I like to waste my time reading.

In this excerpt from an interview, she gives a flavour of the kind of stuff she's on about. "... when I was a believer in the brain as the most important organ in the body, this assumption..." and so forth.

Pert is a rather sad example of an apparently smart scientist gone bad. I wrote about Molecules of Emotion here.

 

[Almo]

I was deeply offended by this film's misuse of Quantum. Hence my letter to McGill about one of their programs showing it. Bastards.

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I think there is ONE good thing about the film. Its message is that people have more control over their lives than they think, which is true. But that's like saying "But Hitler DID revive the German Economy." It's just not worth all the crap.

 

[thesyntaxera]

At first I was offended, thinking you meant Marlee Matlin. But I assume it's her instead?

I remember having difficulties adjusting to the phony accent at the beginning of the movie. What's it supposed to be? Russian? Fyne British?

I've made a policy of adding MST3K to each pic to insure that this movie's abysmal quality is made clear.

Well, I have looked into this movie extensively, and as far as I can tell it's a sham. The blonde lady in this picture is RAMTHA or jz knight.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JZ_Knight

She is a hoax artist, cult leader. This film was design to attract followers, and was paid for by her, and directed by followers of her religion... several of the scientists interviewed are followers as well.

They subscribe to the Bohm model of Quantum Mechanics that suggests that the universe is a sort of pantheistic entity, or hologram, as well as the many worlds interpretation. Granted these two ways of viewing QM are experimental and unproven, there is some evidence to suggest some credence...just not much yet...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bohm

To be honest though, they never really say what they are saying, they just present a bunch of info without a thesis and word it to be a answer to all of your lifes problems.

They edited all of the interviews, of course...and then went on the defense when one of the scientists they interviewed was angered by his mis-representation in the film. He did not agree with the theistic context they put his words in.