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The Little Book of Bleeps: Excerpts from the Award-Winning Movie What the (#$%&) Bleep Do We Know

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The Little Book of Bleeps: Excerpts from the Award-Winning Movie What the (#$%&) Bleep Do We Know (Purchased on 08/12/2005)
I heard about the low budget movie "What the Bleep Do We Know?" and went to see it in down town Sacramento movie hall. I enjoyed it so much I purchased the film. I tried to talk to my friends about it. I even bought two more films to pass out to my friends. My "flatland" skeptic friends could not believe that I would even want to see such a film. They found everything wrong with it. I felt like Galileo or Copernicus trying to let them know that the sun does not revolve around the earth. I looked at my film at least ten times trying to write down all the words of wisdom emanating from the great thinkers who were scientist and other academics in the film.

Then I found the book "The Little Book of Bleeps" that had all the words I wanted to ponder that were in the film. As I e-mailed more friends about my excitement knowing that "we create our own reality," most of my friends again put the book down by explaining the fallacies of all the great thinkers who were scientist and other academics in the film---But, what do my friends know?

Then I found "Beyond the Bleep" that goes into detail about all the ideas and the thinkers who came up with these ideas. This film "WTBDWK" is about quantum physics, spirituality---and the meaning of life. This ambitious film attempts to answer existential questions such as: What is God? What are emotions? What is the soul? And what we all want to know why are we here?

I was so caught up with quantum physics; I ordered some lectures about quantum physics for the non-scientist from the Teaching Company. That gave me the vocabulary to understand "WTBDWK."

That wasn't enough for me. Amazon.com was advertising the book "The Spiritual Universe, How Quantum Physics Proves The Existence of the Soul." by Fred Alan Wolf, PH.D. one of the scientist in the film. It took me a month to finish the book and now I'm going to read it again. Quantum Physics is mind boggling, but I think it will change the whole direction of science and bring Science into the realm of Spirituality, bring the objective into the subjective. I feel blest that I am moving up the spiritual path intended by the creator. It also proves to me that there is an "Intelligent design."

There will always be skeptics, especially when the topics raised are so controversial. But I would also say to these skeptics that they're missing the point of this entire book and film: possibilitiy. The point is to challenge our minds, to explore the possibilities.

Some critics have focused on the segment where it's stated that the brain doesn't recognize the difference between a real object and the thought of that object. Of course most of us know the difference between what is real and what is imagined. That's not the point here. What we should consider after hearing a statement like this how amazing the human brain is and perhaps study it further.

I know many hard-core scientists shy away from "New Age" ideas and the types of possibiliites presented here. But what this book intends to show is that science and spirituality can be compatible and that an open mind can lead to growth on many levels.

Check out the official "What the Bleep" web site. They recommend books on every topic mentioned in the film. And by the way, only 2 of the scientists in the film/book are associated with Ramtha. And you don't have to believe everything you read or hear in order to find this book (and film) fascinating.

So what's the worst that can come of this? People begin to ask questions and start reading more about science and spirituality. Sounds like a healthy education to me.

Great accompaniment to the movie that blows your mind. Not only are there great pics in the book, there are great quotes from the movie. This is the movie that keeps you thinking and pondering even after the lights go up. I've seen it three times and plan to buy the DVD when it comes out next year. This movie has helped me re-evaluate how I look at life! Awesome!

This movie isn't playing everywhere -- and there doesn't seem to be a DVD available, if there ever will be. More's the pity.

My experience with the movie was thus: The first time I saw it, I thought they simply didn't go far enough and that some things were presented with too much simplicity. I have since seen it twice more, and each time I've realized more deeply that the intent of the movie is to give you an 'Executive Overview' of Quantum physics, 'mind over matter' style meditation, and what I can only call "Chaos Magic". There's a lot of different things going on in this movie, and the filmmakers' did an excellent job of giving you the substance without involving you in the niggling details of the proofs. However, with some research afterwards, you'll find that it's all there-- the Water experiments, John Hagelin's DC meditation experiments, the whole works. This movie is going to be great for anyone who has questioned Coincidence for long enough to realize that Something is Going On Out There; it won't be so hot for someone who intended to learn about Quantum physics. Better off with a text book there, chum.

Select the outcome you want out of the quantum super-position of possible outcomes. Go from there.

I'm a physicist, or at least that's what my college diploma says. So it was with great interest that I picked up this book. I found it very interesting. I also found that there were great parts that I simply skipped.

First the good parts. The descriptions of quantum physics, told here without mathematics are as good as I've read anywhere. Some of the stranger effects like the ability of the electron to change orbits in an atom instantly, travelling faster than the speed of light, is very well described. So is the discussion that (and to a certain extent continues) split the physicists into two camps when quantum theeory was developed.

The other part of the book that I skipped is when they seem to get very involved with trying to relate physics with religion, specifically the new age religions involved with chanelling the 'thoughts' of a 'priest' from 35,000 years ago.

I think the physics descriptions so good that I'll recommend the book. I just skipped the new age cult stuff.

I love this book for many reasons. Its beautifully put together (the pictures, the color, etc..) and I really like the fact that in the midst of our crazy negative world, that they put together such a positive book. I think its a great companion book if you enjoyed the movie. Because the topic is so deep, its nice to have the dialogue in black and white so I can re-read the information.

There were some rough reviews on this book, but as our last few Presidential elections have shown, there are various opinions on everything. If this topic interests you, then you will enjoy the book. If you are a negative, cranky person looking for faults in everything, you may want to skip this one.

This is a case of the movie being a LOT better than the book. The reason is that the tone and the conversational style of the book are so "cutsey," so patronizing, so ... tiresome; it reminds me of one of the Dummies books. The writers ask so many questions: "So what exactly are emotions? Heard of endorphins? Sound familiar? When was the last time you had an orgasm from a higher level?" I'm really into the subject matter and I'm 3/4 of the way through the book, but I don't think I can finish it, just because the bad writing (not the quantum physics) makes it so hard to read. I wish the authors had just said what they had to say without studying the Dummies format beforehand. If someone picks up a book about the relationship between spirituality and quantum physics, they have to have had some intelligence and some prior reading in both subjects. These authors don't recognize that. Fritjof Capra it's not.

I love this book because it is not only thought-provoking and paradigm-shattering (and how I love exploring new paradigms!), but it is a beautiful work of art in itself. The watermark backgrounds, the illustrations and the celestial colors make this book a sensory delight. The sidebar quotes and interesting juxtapositions of art and text make this book easy and pleasurable to peruse without actually having to sit down and read to enjoy it.

This book is full of thought-provoking ideas about the nature of reality, spirituality and quantum physics. Of particular interest was a segment about the studies done by Dr. Masaru Emoto and outlined in his book "The Hidden Messages of Water", which demonstrates that thought and intention change the characteristics of the water itself.

There are many quotes from respected physicists peppered throughout the book, as well as the movie the book is derived from. I found the movie to be more entertaining, but the book is great for just picking up to ponder an idea. You can open the book anywhere and find interesting ideas to think about without necessarily reading it cover to cover.

I'm glad to see this melding of science and spirituality begin to hit the mainstream. We've always known intuitively that they cannot exist separately. To me, this is the only way life makes sense.

The discovery by scientists years ago that the observor of an experiment actually influenced the outcome of that experiment was only the beginning of a radical change in our collective understanding of the workings of consciousness. This book and movie demonstrate very powerfully that thoughts and beliefs shape the reality we experience, both individually and collectively.

If you liked the video, you'll love the book. It expands on each topic discussed in th video. I just got the new "What the Bleep; Down the Rabbit Hole extended version" video and noticed that some of the new video material are the same interviews printed in the book.

This book was promising to start with, and had some good premises which carried through the book, like that we are causative over our lives and we create our own reality. The Quantum stuff is interesting, though best studied in other places. But the book was ruined for me by the incessant return to one overriding theme: that we are just brains, or chemical reactions in a brain. The very concept that they kept pushing throughout the book, of breaking away from old paradigms and seeing things in a new way was consistently violated by their inability to break away from converting every idea, whether it was mysticism, quantum physics, eastern philosophy, or telepathy, to materialism, somehow reducing it down to brains. Sometimes they would even bring up phenomena that was totally unexplainable by physical means, like time travel, or being out the body, but by some twist of logic would settle back to the old paradigm of explaining away everything with the chemicals in the brain. So, for a book that had great potential I was ultimately very disappointed. A better read to open up your mind to the possibilities of existence is The Holographic Universe.