Emotional Waters

I just got done watching a documentary styled movie called "What the Bleep do we know" which was predominantly focused on Metaphysics...(Specifically, Quantum Physics with a touch of the easier to swallow neuro physics)...but I actually rented it because of the cover statement "Science and spirituallity come together in this mind bending trip down the rabbit hole". When I see statements like these I have to make an effort to keep my gaurd down and allow myself to be hopefull. It's important to lend an ear and to know what their is to know, but so very often the science approach to the spiritual is an abomination. A constantly changing mutation of what they can handle and of what they desire.

Now, you could state that organized religions do the same. Such as that they appease their followers but you would be very wrong in that statement. Most demand change or some type of betterment which is not easy and often not fun wether you do it because you should or because you want to. You could also say that Christianity itself has been mutated into so many varieties over the years and in all honesty you would be correct, but the mutations all stem from a core belief which is the one to follow and compare to. A claim which a science approach has no ability to make. At any rate reading a tagline like the one on the cover leads a person in my shoes to the almost certain conclusion that they will make interesting claims within the science realms and then follow it up with damaging claims of the spiritual world.

My defenses aside their were several parts of this movie which I wanted to talk about. Some were good and some were bad. As follows...

Good Things:
1.They made a good presentation on the field of neurophysics and it's applications in life. Though the songs and animations got hokey for a while they really hit the nail on the head with how people go about their lives both in and out of emotional boxes. They also made a good point as to what addiction is and how it works. If thier is a field of physics out their that is destined to change lives I hope it's this one. It was by far the most important, accurate, and usefull part of the movie.

2.They made several very interesting statements on the ideas and implications of quantumphysics. Some were very cool and a bit surprising to hear. Such as the existance of material in two places at one time which is something they have already achieved in several american laboratories. Things that truly defy what we believe is possible. Things I can't properly explain with the vauge memory I have of what I was told during the film.

3.One of the neatest things that was on the show, and one of the ways the scienists tried to tie into spirituality, was the Japanese scientists (Dr. Masaru Emoto) experiments on water. He, essentially, put water in a series of bottles and labeled the bottles things like "get sick and die", "love", and "thank you" and then left them outside over night in the cold. The next day he photographed them in their crystalized form and they were all amazingly different. Not just a little different or randomly different. They had changed to resemble the labels in that the negative ones were discolored nasty looking whil the positive ones were quite clear and beautiful. Each different than the next and all done, apparently, by the labeling of words and the feeling they held. I did not do extra research on it, but it would be neat to do so some time.

4.Something I thought was interesting, perhaps in its simplicity, was the definition of spirituality which a scientist presented in the film. He was not talking of God or religion but about that intangeble thing we feel but can hardly understand. Some people just live with it as is while others direct it towards nature or new age philosophies. Still others aim it towards organized religions. In every case though it stems from a base feeling. In the film the man says something to the effect of it's the feeling of connectivity to something greater than ourselves which seems to hold true in my experiance. Before my days as a believer and follower I was always connected to something more and still am. It was almost tangeble to me but I never knew what to do with it exactly so I just spread it out over many things untill He came and gathered me up. I still hear many saying "I'm not religous but I am spiritual" and I know what they mean when they say this. I felt that way as well once, maybe you did too. So I thought that this definition, though simple, was quite accurate.

Bad Things:
Besides giving slight credibility (being that these are scientists and people tend to believe what they are told by those perceved as smarted/wiser) to the abstract ideology of customiable spirituality, the idea that it is whatever you want it to be, and the overall feeling of the movie which brought my mind to the mess which is scientology this movie was an interesting pick. I did learn some things but I am sorry to say that the tagline does not live up to its expectations. Even the professor of theology, the only non-science person in the film had nothing to offer in way of connecting or describing how sicence and spiritual are connected. In fact he was possibly the most devistating to cause. Him and one woman really got me riled up, she would make statements that were uterly rediculous concerning spirituality backed with nothing but her own determination and then in the next scene speak intellegently about science which she was able to back and explain properly. It's these moments where people who are searching will put their trust in those who don't deserve it. I could write an entire series on correcting her statements but their would be no point and so I'll leave it at that or this already long post will explode.

Moral of the story...I need to break posts like these into smaller pieces, sorry. ^_^