(In the interest of integrity, I want to disclose right off the top that my name is Joan Parisi Wilcox, and I know the film makers, have worked with the executive producer Harry Massey, hosted the London premier of this documentary and was on the panel for the US premier, so I am not unbiased. However,as a writer with freedom of professional pursuit I choose my projects and affiliations carefully and I am honored to know and work with the visionaries who created this film. This review is sincere, and I want to specifically speak to the science of the film.)
This documentary provides an entertaining and compelling introduction to the "new biology." It shows us what the future of medicine and healthcare will look like. It heralds that we have as yet untapped self-healing potentials, abilities that conventional science still treat as anomalies but that frontier scientists are taking seriously. It provides some of the theories that are reshaping the study of biology, health, physiology, and medicine. It's an ambitious film that hits the mark in introducing the general public to difficult subjects (medicine, physics, healing) in an engaging and easy-to-understand way.
The film is captivating in its content, presentation and flow, working from personal stories of healing that defy conventional explanation to mainstream medical and scientific knowledge to frontier theories and explanations. It leads us on a journey into the body that many people may find both surprising and mind-boggling, taking us beyond the cells to the bioenergetic and bio-informational fields that may actually regulate the body and its systems at its deepest, most fundamental level.
There is real science behind this film, but you won't find it publicized in the mainstream media. You have to be willing to look for it, as I will briefly dicsuss in a moment. The film makers have done us a service by profiling some of the top scientists, independent researchers, and journalists who are doing the studies or writing about the science of the new biology/medicine. The new biology looks beyond DNA, genes and cells into the deeper aspects of what controls, regulates and directs physiology. One of the answers is turning out to be fields of energy and information. We truly are on the cusp of a "quantum biology."
As physicist Anton Zellinger has said, information may be the most fundamental aspect of the universe, and as physicist Jacob Bekenstein says, "Ask anybody what the physical world is made of, and you are likely told matter and energy. Yet, if we have learned anything from engineering, biology and physics, information is just as crucial an ingredient." This film presents the theories about how energy and information appear to be fundamental to our body and to the state of our health.
While the film presents several stories of healings that defy the science of conventional, allopathic medicine, it doesn't leave us scratching our heads and saying, "How can this be?" It provides possible theories that explain these medical "miracles." I emphasize that the explanations are theories, not proof, but not much of conventional medicine is proven conclusively either. Science is statistical. Treatments (estrogen replacement therapy, mammogram recommendations, treatment strategies for prostrate cancer, etc.) in conventional medicine change as new research is conducted and knew understandings gained. In the young science of quantum biology and bioenergetic therapy, the same holds true.
One of the strong points of this film is that it lets the researchers speak for themselves. You may not always agree with them, but you have to hand it to them for stepping outside of the ivory tower to stake their claim in research areas that don't earn them professional kudos or easy grant money. They believe in what they are doing, and they are willing to risk their reputations and careers on their research and on letting us know that there is more to health than we have been told by the increasingly corporate medical establishment.
The controversial part of this film is not the people in it, but the science they talk about. It's so new and sometimes so outside the mainstream that some of it strains credulity. But that's the way science works: what was once crackpot eventually becomes mainstream. At one time scientists scoffed at germ theory. One of the physicists who first proposed the existence of quarks was called a charlatan and refused a university position. Nowadays, everyone knows germs exist and can contribute to illness. Today quarks are an accepted, even a bedrock, part of the standard model of quantum mechanics. So, old paradigms die hard, especially when careers and huge grants depend on preserving them.
This film is about the new paradigm, and the evidence for the new quantum biology is amassing slowly. Much of the evidence is quite convincing if you give it a fair hearing. A film traditionally does not provide references and citations, so if you want to know more, you have to be motivated to look for it. You can't fault film makers, as one reviewer does, for following the conventions of their medium, and I for one have yet to see a film that provided a bibliography. (The website is another story, and I suspect that the reviewer's suggestion for a bibliography there will be taken.) If you want to know more about the theories presented in the film, you can start by looking up the books and journal articles of the pioneering scientists and journalists in this film. They are easy to find, most right here on Amazon.
I recommend you start with James Oschman's two books, which are compilations of both the soft and hard science of the new biology. Lynn McTaggart is a journalist, not a scientist, and her book "The Field" provides a popular yet fairly rigorous look at the evidence as well. Bruce Lipton's "The Biology of Belief" is one of the first popular books about the new science of epigenetics, which is showing how DNA is not the primary control center of the cell and how cells respond to environmental influences. You might also want to look at a book I co-wrote with one of the producers, Harry Massey, and one of the independent researchers featured in this documentary, Peter Fraser. It's about NES therapy and the new biology ("Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine".) Rupert Sheldrake, Edgar Mitchell and others also have books worth reading about the new paradigm in biology and other areas of science. So, the science is real and available. (And for the reviewer so concerned about Dr. Cimbal's example about birds, see the theory of Iannis Kominis of the University of Crete and the New Scientist article "Do birds see with quantum eyes?" Cimbal may have cited outdated info about birds and field effects, but no one really knows how birds navigate; it's all theory. Many of the latest theories about nature, especially photosynthesis, are quantum based, as is Kominis's theory about bird navigation.)
Many people have been inspired by this film, as has been evidenced by the sold-out screenings and the packed Q & A sessions afterwards. This is a film that is bound to open your mind to new possibilities. It might even help change your state of health. But the bottom line is that if you want to know what the future of healthcare and medicine will likely be, and you want to know more about your own self-healing potential, this film is the one to watch.