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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent series, but buy the newly edited, 4 DVD version, May 3, 2005

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Michael Sullivan (Massachusetts) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Consciousness (DVD)

The original 6 DVD series is no longer available, even though Amazon still lists it. It was discontinued months ago, so any stores selling it, even via Amazon, are not authorized resellers, and you may be getting a bootleg version if you buy from them. You can find the newly edited, 4 DVD version on several legitimate sites, including www.hoptustore.com/cose.html. I bought a copy and loved it. It is now fully edited.

From what I understand, the 6 DVD series was released early, before the footage was properly edited, because there were people who wanted it right away back in December. The new version, which is 4 DVDs, has been edited, and flows very well. For those not in the media industry, all interviewers ask a lot of questions and talk a lot to the people they interview, but that footage is typically chopped out during the editing process, so you never know about it. The questions and comments are necessary for the interviewee, so that any possible comments or objections the audience may have are answered. That's why there was so much of the interviewer in the 6 DVD version, he was trying to cover all of the possible thoughts, questions, and ideas the entire range of audience members might have.

In addition, much of the footage was shot back in 2002, years before Bleep came out, and years before millions of general audience members even had a notion that there even was a science of consciousness, so the interviewer was on the cutting edge of the most cutting edge science on the planet, so cut him some slack already.

At any rate, the new fully edited 4 DVD series is jam packed with the world's leading scientists in this field explaining the world's leading scientific theories on consciousness. There are no channelers or prophets, just hard core science with professors from major universities. An essential part of my permanent collection. Enjoy!

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars clumsy interviews, some good material though, March 5, 2005

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S. Aichele (Ojai, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Consciousness (DVD)

I have a background in neuroscience and have also spent many years as a meditation practitioner. It's rare to find individuals who straddle both worlds - the scientific and the contemplative - so it's easy to get hopes up when I believe I've found a resource that (skillfully) furthers this dialoge. More often than not, those hopes are thwarted. This series is yet another example of the latter (thwarted hopes). There were some wonderful moments with the interviewees, but the interviewer was extremely clumsy in his approach. I'd definitely like to see a better production effort next time 'round!

9 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Consciousness, January 30, 2005

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appreciative-reader (Washington D.C.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Consciousness (DVD)

Brace yourself. All the questions you ever had about your identity, your mind, your dreams, your place in the universe, and your role in eternity are about to be addressed in a head on, take no prisoners, no holds barred fashion by a group of fearless professors who dare plunge where science itself is only just beginning to venture - into the deepest realms of interior human existence - into the soul! If you liked "What The Bleep Do We Know" but were left wanting more, this is for you. There is great excitement afoot and you are about to become part of it. Click on the picture to see a larger view of this 12-hour long, 6 DVD Box Set.
Three years in the making, this is a total immersion into the world's latest theories on consciousness, including in-depth discussions with the twenty scientists listed below on topics as diverse as quantum biophysics, nano-neuroscience, philosophy, meditation, metaphysics, dreaming, causation, and the paranormal, all of which are converging into the greatest exploration of all time, to understand just who, or what, we are. If you liked "What the Bleep", then you'll absolutely love this series, which not only includes scientists from "What the Bleep", but also many others who have been working on this grand equation for decades, including the following great minds:

Dr. Stuart Hameroff, M.D. Professor, Anesthesiology and Psychology, Associate Director, Center for Consciousness Studies, University of Arizona.

Dr. Andrew B. Newberg, M.D. Professor, Dept. of Radiology, Division of Nuclear Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, co-author of "The Mystical Mind"

Nancy J. Woolf, Ph.D. Professor, Laboratory of NanoNeuroscience, Department of Psychology, UCLA

Jack A. Tuszynski, Ph.D. Professor of Biophysics, Condensed Matter Physics, University of Alberta, Canada

David Chalmers, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Philosophy; Director, Center For Consciousness Studies, University of Arizona,

Dick Bierman, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Utrecht University

Vilayanur Ramachandran, Ph.D., MD Director, Center for Brain and Cognition; Professor, Department of Psychology and Neurosciences Program, University of California, San Diego; Adjunct Professor of Biology, Salk Institute

Paavo Pylkkanen M.Sc., Ph.D. Professor, Consciousness Studies Programme, Department of Humanities, University of Skovde, Sweden.

Dr. Petra Stoerig, Ph.D. Professor of Experimental Psychology, University of Dusseldorf

C. Van Youngman, Professor of Psychology, Art Institute of Philadelphia, Department of General Education

Dr. Steven Sevush, M.D. Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology, University of Miami

Stephen LaBerge, Ph.D. Director of the Lucidity Institute and author of Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming.

Dean Radin, Ph.D. Senior Scientist, Institute of Noetic Sciences

Tony Bell, Ph.D. Senior Scientist, Redwood Neuroscience Institute

Ellery Lanier, Ph.D. Interdisciplinary Program, New Mexico State University

Gregg H. Rosenberg, Ph.D. Post-doctoral Fellow/Assistant Research Scientist, Artificial Intelligence Center, The University of Georgia

Christian Seiter, Department of Psychology, Institut für Umweltmedizin, University of Freiburg

Chester Wildey, M.Sc. The University of Texas at Arlington

Willoughby Britton, University of Arizona, Tucson

Susan Blackmore, Author of "The Meme Machine"


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