Wake Up Call
The film Wake Up follows “average guy” Jonas on his strange and wonderful journey to discover why one day out of nowhere he began to see angels, spirits, demons, ghosts, and auras. Jonas is determined to understand and adapt to his new reality, which leads him to renowned scientists, teachers, and spiritual leaders. Tackling topics such as life after death, the paranormal, metaphysics, and global consciousness; this film takes the viewer on their own expansion of consciousness, containing information that could very well resonate deeply within one’s own psyche.
This film is a source of inspiration for further consciousness evolution as well as gratitude at the joys and mysteries of life. Check out the trailer for Wake Up here:
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sounds like
....how much gold will you give me for the secret of infinite riches....
Hmmm...
As for "What the Bleep 2" -- haha, I love that movie and would probably want to see Part 2... but this wasn't it.
I wrote this short before I received the movie in the mail, and I think I didn't quite do the movie justice.
My boyfriend and I enjoyed the content a lot, and the visuals were great. Jonas is a cool guy, and it was fascinating seeing into his world.
"Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens." - Carl Jung
the law of distration
IMO what the bleep do we know is a bunch of psuedo scientific mystified quantum fapdoodle. the only credible scientists in that movie were outraged to be taken out of context if i remember correctly.
I'd say that "the secret" was the real what the bleep do we know part 2. accomplishing a similar mission but infinitely more successful, penetrating onto Oprah et al.
thing is, i have nothing against encouraging people to question their reality, and certainly i'm open to concepts of mental powers and so forth (i hope that we develop a greater understanding of what consciousness is, as we go on collectively as a species). i also don't have any big problems with magical thinking as venue for encouraging imagination and creativity, certainly wonderful human things. but these movies do little to encourage critical thought in people, which is where i feel people need more encouragement than not.
people are superstitious enough. what isn't encouraged - not in mainstream society, not in our education system, not in the media - is rational inquiry with an open mind. and the counter culture isn't doing a lot to counter that either. it's just a mirror image, counter culture dogma and counter culture propaganda. and if you challenge it than you're "closed minded" or you're not ready for accession or whatever. blech.
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I'm curious, which scientists were you referring to with regards to "What the bleep.."?
I also agree with the post prior to yours about the great JZ Knight "pay me your monies for knowledge" lol, well done.
I agree, there are folks within the "counter-culture" new agey circles that are, as Pinchbeck called them IRRC "Bliss Bunnies", people that don't think crticially, delusiions of granduer, etc. Critical thinking and the scientific method are good useful tools in our invistigative tool box, we should use them.
There are, as other posters said, dogmatic scientistists as well.
here's an excerpt with link to whole article (just 1 scientist)
David Albert, a professor at the Columbia University physics department, has accused the filmmakers of warping his ideas to fit a spiritual agenda. "I don't think it's quite right to say I was 'tricked' into appearing," he said in a statement reposted by a critic on "What the Bleep's" Internet forum, "but it is certainly the case that I was edited in such a way as to completely suppress my actual views about the matters the movie discusses. I am, indeed, profoundly unsympathetic to attempts at linking quantum mechanics with consciousness. Moreover, I explained all that, at great length, on camera, to the producers of the film ... Had I known that I would have been so radically misrepresented in the movie, I would certainly not have agreed to be filmed."
"I certainly do not subscribe to the 'Ramtha School on Enlightenment,' whatever that is!" he finished. Albert provided Salon with an excerpt from a piece he's writing on the subject, in which he says, in part, "I'm unwittingly made to sound as if (maybe) I endorse its thesis."
taken from the second page of this article:
http://dir.salon.com/story/ent/feature/2004/09/16/bleep/index.html
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i agree that science can become scientism, it's own kind of knee jerk dogmatic reaction. a friend of mine once told be that in science you're only as good as your questions. you can't outright rule out anything and be doing real science, you can't set out to only look for evidence that supports what you want to find.
in my estimation to do good science you almost have to be a mystic - and indeed that science should offer us an appreciation of nature that is mystical in its own right - if only that we could approach mysticism with the same level of scrutiny as well.
diggin it, thanks for the