“What the Bleep Do We Know” and My Book
Thank you to the four students who insisted, more than once, that I should show the “Bleep” film in class. I had forgotten how it clarifies some of the denser philosophical matter in the textbook, Creative Synergy.
First, the movie mentions going “down the rabbit hole” as a metaphor for unerstanding the weirdness of quantum reality, and the text draws liberally on quotes from Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass to illustrate illuminations from the unconscious and superconscious minds. Next, as the narrator explains “We’re all one” and “What thoughts are made of,” there is a swirling net of faces–Indra’s net! And galaxies are shown in circular whirpools, a universal image mentioned in Chapter 9. The film talks about images visualized registering on a PET scan just like images viewed “out there”–a point made during the class presentation on visualization. (Remember those visualized basketball throws?) It presents a study showing the effects of meditation on crime and also mentions the rewiring of the brain during learning and the Flow State. It warns that a thin layer of positive affirmation by itself will not work; we have to dig deeper into our beliefs about our fears and limitations. It shows Masura Emoto’s water crystals, changed by the thoughts directed toward them (Chapter 9). It depicts some experts I quoted: Fred Allan Wolfe (Dr. Quantum) on physics and Amit Goswari on philosophy (Monistic Idealism, Chapter 2). Like Charles Tart it says we walk around hypnotized by our conditioning. It talks about the paradigm shift and the Observer (also called the Witness by Wilber and others).
Now, how can I wrap up all of these separate facts and state, simply and clearly, what all of this blended science and metaphysics and (quite possibly) hocus-pocus have to say about creativity? Basically, we are more creative than we usually know. Just as a quanta can be a wave when unobserved but a particle when observed, we can direct the waves of our wishing and intention in such a focused way that we can make something real happen after we imagine it. Our intention focuses us to make it happen. Our fears block it, but similar waves in the net resonate to it.
Am I making sense? Does this material make sense? What do you think about the links between the book and the film?
The Bleep film was an interesting and informative introduction to indra’s net(unified field theory) , quantum physics, understanding consciousness and metaphysics in general. The concept of using the universe to create an your experience is fascinating and at the same time confusing to people who have never heard of this stuff before. Basically, the gist of the film is that at our very core, our very base, we are made up of energy. At the level of the quanta, everything in the universe is made up of source energy or light. All this energy vibrates at such dizzying paces to form everything from a person to a chair. Nothing on earth in solid, it is made up of energy that vibrates at a certain frequency. We can create circumstances and situations we desire by aligning our vibrations with the vibrations of our desires and with placing our intentions on what we want. It goes beyond positive thinking, we must believe and be what we desire. Masura Emoto’s water crystals changed into terrifying shapes because of the emotions and thoughts imposed on them. The ones that became beautiful works of art were exposed to feeling of love and gratitude. If one’s desire is for creativity in solving a problem, the person must do the same thing and tap into this source of attaining everything by putting themselves into the same vibration as their desired solution. This process is similar to to the stages of creativity, where a person is presented with a task or faces a problem and he enters into the preparation and concentration stages. Then is stuck at incubation. when he taps into the creative force and brings himself into alignment with his desire/solution/creative idea, then he receives it and becomes illuminated and is put on the path to verification.
Superb response, Sandro!
Hey, Sandro, look at the synchronicity of the times of our two responses above!